Americans Abroad.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 7

Americans Abroad.

' Do you rcmombor, love,' I said, ' Our happy wedding trip 1 ' Tho skies were bright then overhead. The cup ot joy was at my lip, And dear old nature seemed to smile When you and I went up the Nile. ' Do you remember Cairo, dear, With all its wondrous sights : Its beggars, picturesque and queer ; Its clear, bright days and moonlight nights? Sho said : ' For Cairo I don't care, We had our first quarrel there. • And Memphis too,' I quickly add, ' So mummified and tomby, Tho very air, I think, was sad, Sho said, ' It was not gloomy To me. How could it be so, when # f Wo kissocl there, and made up again ? 4 Ah, well,' I said, ' those dear old days I never shall forget ; They linger in a golden haze : I sco the Thobau temples yet. % 'Oh Thebes ! ' 3he said, with abstract air, 4 1 lo9t my voil. a new one, there,' ' What, sights at Luxor, far away ; What obelisks and sphinxes ! W»mt grand carved statues, old and gray What black-eyed Arab minxes ! ' At Luxor,' said aho, with a sigh, • I had a cold, and you, a sty. • At Carnak ! when tho word is said, I see that ancient land, Beforo which I would bow my head And stand with hat in hand. ' Carnak ? ' sho murmured ; lot me i sec. t 'T was there wo lunched on egga and tea.

A great) curiosity, and one that ha? caused many speculations, has been founoat Pakahae, Poverty Bay. A few days ago a shepherd named Rertnedy saw the end of a sword sticking out from a sand mil, on which the sea had gradually gained. He secured it, and ib has been found to be a sword of the fashion of 150 years ago, the steel being of wonderfully good quality. Of course the interesting question is now the sword got there, and this is a mystery which will probably never be solved.