Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-03-29
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THE YOUNG ESGLISHMiN.

We copy the following story from a work. The
Arabian Days sinIuents just issued in vol
Boston Neither the IIe or the Of the
story give ny intimaton of the pleasant humor which
e-ves the whole after the secret is known, OF the
excellent moral be il. This but
MANY Others which make up the book and well deserve
the name OF Enterta tnments-
My Lord Shiek, In the southern part
Of Germany lies the liule Guy of Grun-
viesel, where | was born and bred. It
IS small, as all cities are IN that country.
In the center is little market-plaCe with
fountain, an old gulldhall on one side,
round the market the houses of the JUS
tIce cf the peace and the more influential
merchants; and a couple of narrow streets
hold all the rest of the inhabitants. All
know each other; every one knows what
happens everywhere else; and If the
priest, The burgomaSter, or the doctor has
an additional dish on his table, by dinner
time it is known TO the whole city. In the
afternoon the ladies 90 TO each others
houses, paying visits as they call 1t, TO
talk, over strong coffee and sweet biscuits,
about this great event; and The general
conclusion arrived at Is that the priest
must have invested in lottery and won
money siufully, or the burgomaster have
taken a bribe, or the doctor has rec .ived
money from the apotheCary on the condI-
tion of writing expensive prescrIptlons
! You may imaglu my lord shIek, how
1 dIsagreeable 4 circumstance II must have
\ been for SO well regulated a place as
/ Grunwiesel, when a man arrived there,
( of whom nobody knew of whence he came
what he wanted OF how he lived. The
burgomaster, 10 be sure, had seen his
passport - paper which every one is
obliged TO have among US
" Is il 50 unsafe in your Streets" inter-
rupted the shiek, THAT you require to
have a firman from your sultan to inspire
robbers with respect!"
/ No, my lord rd,-answered the slave -
these papers are no protection against
thieres but are made necessary by the
law, which requires that 1t must be known
everywhere who is who. Now, the bur-
gomaster had examined the passport, and
( had declared, at a coffee party at the doc
/ tors that it was certainly correctly vised
/ from Berlin TO Grunwiesel; but he feared
there was something behind, for the ma n
! had a very suspicious look about him. -
/ The burgomaster had great authority In
! he city, 50 il IS no matter Of surprise that
/ in consequence the stranger came 10 be
regarded as a very doubtful character.
I His mode of life did not tend 10 disabuse
my countrymen of this opinion. He hired
4 house for his exclusive use, put into 1t
+ a cart load OF strange looking furniture,
such as furnaces, sand baths, crucibies,
aud the like, and lived henceforward en-
T tirely alone. Nay, he even did his own
| cooking, and his house was entered by
no human being, except one old man OF
Grunw,esei, whose duty it was to buy
1 bread meat and vegetables. Even this
person was only admitted TO the lower
floor, where the stranger met him to re-
ceive his purchases.
was boy of ten years Of age when
/ The stranger took up his residence IN our
/ city; aud | can call to mind. as plainly
as # It had happened but yesterday, the
excitement the man occasIoned IN the
place. He never came, of an afternoon,
! like other people, TO the bowling green ;
never OF n evening 10 the tavern, 10 talk
OF the times over his pipe and tobacco
( In VAIN did the burgomaster, the justice,
the doctor, the priest, each in his lurn, IN
vite him 10 dinner or tea he invariably
+ begged 10 be excused. Ia consequence
of ali ihis. some people regarded him as
! desperate; some thought he must be
jew; and third party declared with
grea, solemnity that he was a magician
or sorcerer. grew to be eighteen, TWEEN,
ty years old, and still the man was al
ways called in the city the Stranger.
Il happened one day that some peoplt
came to the city with a collection OF strange
animals. The troop which showed itsel