NAKED FACTS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1141, 13 January 1874, Page 4

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 marMed couple, going down from Jerusalem to the Jordan, and they fell among thieves • " Travellers have to purshasethe 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 by the Sheik Kescid 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 one 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 gratify our curiosity on one important point of this interesting account. What was the paper that acted as the good Samaritan ! It could not be the petty sheets that serve foreign needs: there could hardly be the making of an apron in them. And we hope it was not the Daily Telegraph: it is so thin, it wouldn't bear stitching. It wouldn't fasten in well behind, aed would give at the knees. But a stout substernal London Times, though it might not " provoke our pride," could be made to furnish capital walking costumes, considering the climate • and we should not be surprised to hear that toilettes de Times were rather ton at Jerusalem.