WHO ARE THE AFGHANS?

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5278, 17 December 1885, Page 2

WHO ARE THE AFGHANS?

There ban be but little doubt that the Afghans are the lineal descendant! and representatives of some of the vanished and lost tribes of the Jews. Their physiognomy is strictly Jewish; the cop* manding nose which is popularly held to represent a Semitic ancestry being mark* edly prominent. In the names they give* themselves, too, a Jewish sound ii to bet : found. Jacob is represented in Afghaneee. by the word Yakoub. Moses is Musa. In Ibrahim, the name of the patriarch Abraham stands confessed, and Ishaek for Isaac is just as plain. These names, by the by, are all to be found in the pres* ent Ameer's family. The Afghan method of salutation is gravely polite. When two Afghans meet, one will say to the other, "May you never be tired." To this the other one responds, " May you ever bo prosperous." When a host receives a visitor at his threshold he plemntly ejaculates, •• May you ever come." *■ And the friend follows the host with the very pleasant sentence, "And may you ever continue;" the latter speech beinr ??Z l?*& with the Hebraic, "Oh, king, live for ever." -

When Archbishop Wh&teij was engaged one day in his gardening operations, a oompanion referred, among other matters, to the great revolution in the medical treatment of looatics introduced by Pmel, who, instead of the strait waistcoat and other maddening goads, awarded to each patient healthful and agreeable occupation, including agricul* ture and gardening. "I think gardening would bn a dangerous indulgence for lunatics," observed Dr Whately. •• Hoir so?" said his friend, surprised. "Because they might grow madder," was lhe> rejoinder.