Naked Facts.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 215, 23 December 1873, Page 7

Naked Facts.

Most; newspapers are esteemed to be acquainted with the art of hiding. How valuable such a power may sometimes be, this little narrative of misadventure, told by the Jewish Chronicle , may show. There were certain people, a married couple, going down from Jerusalem to the Jordan, and they fell among thieves >- “ Travellers have to purchase the protection of the Bedouins of the Jordan against all enemies of their own or neighbouring tribes ; and the agreement is to the effect that they shall be taken bv the Sheik Rescid and a proper guard to the Dead Sea and the Jordan and back in safety to Jerusalem. Without such protection the journey is simply impossible, and our lady and gentleman, who had attempted the trip without the formality of a Bedouin guard, had been met and robbed of their baggage, their money, clothes, and valuables. The gentleman then begged of the Bedouin robbers a newspaper in which to clothe himself and his wife. The husband returned to Jerusalem in the journal, his wife being wrapped up in the supplement.” The Chronicle does not gra' ify our curiosity bn one important point of this interesting account. What was the paper that acted as the good Samaritan ? It could not be the pottv sheets that serve foreign needs : there could hardly be the making of an apron in them. And we hope it-was not the Daily Tcleyraph; it is so thin, it wouldn’t bear stitching. It wouldii t fasten in well behind, and would give at the knees. But a stout substantial Times, though it might not “ provoke our pride,” could he made to furnish capital walking costumes, considering the climate ; and we should not be suprisod to hear that toilettes <h Tims were rather ton at Jerusalem.

An Ohio newspaper was sent for nine years to a subscriber who never paid a cent for it. The other day the paper was returned to the patient and long-auffering publisher, with the affecting pencil note on its margin. “ Gone to a better world.” The publisher is a pious man, but it is reported that he strongly doubts the accuracy of the pencil statement.' A Chicago paper gets off the following at the expense of New York society. It is the closing scene in a fashionable call made on a fashionable young lady “ Finally, Miss Julia was induced to give a taste of her musical powers. And this is how she did it. Then Julia flirted up her panniers behind, coqnettishly wiggle-waggled to the piano, and sang:— ‘ When ther-mon-hoon is mi-hilddy O’er ther ca-halm and si-hi-lent, so-c-o-a, Its ra-dyiinco so so-hoft-lv stree-heam-ing, Oh ! ther-hen, oh, ther hen I thee-hink Hof thee-hco I thee-hink f thee-hink

I thee-he-hehehehe-hink bof theeeeoeee !’ ‘Beautiful, Miss Julia! Bountiful!’ and wo all clapped our hands. ‘ Do, please, sing another verso—it’s perfectly divine, Miss Julia,’ said Eugene Augustus. Then Julia raised her golden (dyed) head, touched the white ivory with her jewelled fingers, and warbled : ‘ When the aur-hun is brigb-bi-bi'rlitlv flowing O’er the se-hone so dci-henr to nioee, And swee-heefc the wee-hind is blo-ho-howin*, I thee-hink TTof tb°edieo I thee-hink, I Mne-hink, Ithee-he-he-hoheheliehcho-hinkh diohohohohohoho h-o-f thceoeeeeeeeeee !!!’ ! Beautiful! Just too lovely !” 1