Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-01-05

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large well-made figures, and cookbook
ing faces, with Distinguishing dignity 0
manner and appearance.
Moreover, he says the women are fine
looking Respecting their faces, howev
er, ne speaks with less confidence, thei
features all, excepting their eyes, being
pretty well concealed whenever they %
abroad out Of their harems, or are at al
liable to be seen by men. And being {
bachelor, Mr.. Goodenow had no conyen
lent wite-like Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tague, for example-to enable him to OBJ.
serve by proxy. But this privation.
may venture, has not been without some
compensation. The alert eyes of a hand.
some bachelor surely has not always, even
under Mussleman institutions, had to pen.
citrate wells, while their owners had nims
BILE fingers, prompted by women's hearts
and vanity, to lift them.
Georgian and Oircassian women Justify
IN a remarkable degree their worldwide
reputation for beauty but he was not all
enthusiastic on the subject. He thought
the Hungarian women the handsomest of
all the nationalities of women he had
seen.
The national legislature Of Turkey is a
body of about 100 members, appointed
severally by the different municipalities
of the empire, to enact the laws therefor.
The Sultan, in his absolutism, can, at
pleasure, reject or remove any legislator,
but he cannot, in regularity, appoint any.
About one-third of the present legislature
consists OF Christians. There are also five
Jews in the body. This liberation of for
eign religious in branch of the govern
ment old, so-considered, semi-5arbarous
nation, ard certainly dcspotic, Moham-
medan monarchy, is an exceedingly cheer
ing fact. 1t is recent thing, and, | nm
dcrstood Mr.. Goodenow to say, the result
Of the Sultan's late visit to western Eu.
rope.
Constantinople is separated into two
quite distinct divisions; the native and
the f r9ign parts. Stamboul is the part
Inhabited by the Turks exclusively, and
pera; or the Frank nparier that .ocaunied
b titv-s f5lvisspssS Ps'..v'r....y A
Greeks, Italians, English and Germans
fewer of the two last than Of any of the
other three. The Turks speak in the
main only the Turkish language. French
is most used in Pera German and Eng
lish least but English is becomlnS<nore
common. A, great number Of tongues arc
spoken there. At a table at which Mr..
Goodenow formed one of a party Of thir-
teen persons, fourteen languages were
spoken 1t is common thing there for
a person to speak several languages. A
lady whom the Consul married to an
American citizen, spoke five quite we'll
The narrow streets, dirt and dogs, in
Constantinople, Justify the unenTiable no.
toriety of that city in those respects.
Mr.. Goodenow is personally acquainted
with the Turkish Minister here, and ex-
presses a favorable opinion of him. His
father was French and his mothor Arme-
niau, and Blacque Bey is regarded as an
Armenian himself. lie has had long ex-
perience in diplomatic situations. His
appointment to this mission was preceded
by twelve years as Secretary of Legation
at Paris, and after that, some time as
Charge des Afaires at Naples. He is a
large, fne-looking man. 'And-what will
be read generally with more interest than
all-he is Christian.
Our hostess informed her kinsman that
Governor Chamberlain, of Maine, had
made, in his message to the Legislature,
very handsome acknowledgment OF the
voluntary and valuable services our Con-
sui General at Constantinople had render
ed those poor misled distressed people
who emgrated from Maine to the Holy
Land. under the fanatical fancy that they
would be so much nearer to the place OF
the Lords mundane arrival at his second
coming; they we're led to this by man
named Adams, whom | remember in New
York city as preacher and actor by turns
II is said that he is now in England trying
to drum up recruits for the broken ranks
of his followers, who still remain, and
continue to struggle on in Palestine.
OLD Squire Dilson, the homeliest man
in Nebraska, while out hunting lately,