THE INTERIOR OF THE KHEDIVE'S HOUSE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1601, 7 October 1882, Page 4

THE INTERIOR OF THE KHEDIVE'S HOUSE.

The "Lady of Alexandria," who is contributing to the Kolnisc/ic Zrituiuj those interesting sketches of home-life in Egypt, which none but a woman could give in such detail, sends a picture of the interior of the Khedive's house. Tewfik Pasha, as most persons an; piob.ibly aware, has distinguished himself fiom his predecessors and his contemporaiies upon Eastern thrones by restricting himself, after the AVestern and Christian manner, to one -wife. The Vice-Queen as "the Lady" calls Tcwiik's spouse, is a dauuhtcr of El Hamid Pasha, and giand-daughter of the famous Abbas Pasha. She js a beautiful and cultivated woman, who tenderly loves her husband and her four children, and takes an active part in the education of the latter. The eldest boy, Abbas, and bis brother are taught by a Swiss> pedagogue, and the two little gills arc placed under the care of English muses. The Khedne's wite is not fiee fiom hateful tricks of petty annoyance, w hich aie often played off upon her. Thus, she received lately a visit from two Tuikish ladies of high position, to whom she offered, after the usual custom, cigarettes ■with the (hijlre of the Khedive upon them. When they had gone, the bl.ick servants found these ladies had left behind them in the anti-chamber numbers of the cigarettes with the chi/fie of Arabi Pasha, as an insult through his wife. "Tlis Lady" says that the "Vice-Queen" has passed through agonies in fie first . tumulit in Cairo. Like the Imperial family in Russia, she is in fear of palace niti igues, and has only a few Circassians about her m whom she can place, pel feet confidence, and they aio slaves. She told her European \isitoi that nothing would be &o gieat a joy and iclief to hey a.s an entire lenuneiatiou ot the piecaiiousi and dangerous bplemlour and dignity in which she lives, Wttd thy K'tU'euwut with her husband and children to a safe and i]ttiet private life. She has always hitherto the Arab population ; but since the out-bieak of the 11th of June, and the feaiful scene of winch she was a trembling eyc-witue&s fiom behind the iron bar of the harem windows, she dccl-ues that &he shall in future be more circumspect in her benevolence.

Tiif Sultan of Morocco has only 364 wives. This him one clay in the year to bit down ami leflcct without having a wepmop strike his toes. DuhTAND Dum'lms. — Do not dust, but wipe ! The duster, that peaceful emblem of domestic labour, may, under cci tain circumstances, become a dangeious weapon to handle. "We ,iic in earnest. An eminent scientist declares it to be a fact. Do you know what you arc doing when you biusli away dust ? You disseminate in the air, and consequently introduce into your own inteiior, into your tissues and lcsijiratory oigans, all sorts of eggs, spoico, epidemic geims and murderous vibkmes which dust contains, One movement with a fe.ithei duster may be enough to poison both you and your neighbour— toiunoculate }ou all with typhus, \auoloid, 01 ehol' la — stiange as it may appear. Instead of a fcathei duster take a damp cloth ; wipe away the dust instead oi stilling it up. In bhoit, wipe— nevei dust TRu.rc Enjjjlm; ot v Lovi: Sionv. —A singnlaily painful scene was witnessed at the New sticet lailway station, Birmingham, on a leeent night, An liish gnl, whose lo\ei, an egg mei chant, named John Moian, had been killed in a street accident dining the week, peisisted in accompanying the corpse to the London and Noith-webtein station, whence it was to be taken to li eland for interment. The foimal wake had been Held upon the body thioughout the pre\ious night, and about 2,000 liish people matched with the oothn to the train. The girl, whose weddn.g day with the deceased had been lived, gave vent to a ht'tiiti ending scieam as tlie coilm was placed in the lailway car ; and declaung she would be buried with hei lover, she bioke away fiom her friends, and, rushing to the booking oflice, retuined frantic, waving a ticket for Dublin wlueli she had obtained. Upon being pievcnted fiom cnttiing the ti«iin she w cut into h) stei ics, and w a<- 1 emo\ ed to tlie M.uting-ioom amid most paintul excitement, Her lather implored hei upon lecovei my consciousness to letum home, but learning that the liish tiam foi Hoi) head had lett the -station, she again went into convulsions, and was in that state foieibiy placid in a \e!iicle under her sist'i'.-j caie dud diive.ii oil. Her life is now despaned ot. Pile immense station was uiowdod, and until the depaitnc of the tiam the upioai was deafening. Aliout (1,000 poisons wiie pie&cnt, and the building ic-oundcd \Mtli sobbing and gioaniug i ies foi the deceased and In* sweetheai t until the departuie of tlie tiam. Ai'viuol jackdaws iceeutly built a nest within the loof of the i hapel of the New College, at Ovfoul, and several young biids weie hatched theic. The parents wcie in high glee and began chattel ing to c iuh othei while a sen ice was in pioyuv, below, and when the anthem was i cached tin n l> chiiL's weie loused to .such ,i pitch th it they began a loud cawing, gieatly den onlising to the singcis in the chapi 1. Aim Hie sen ices a lul>ouicr was oidered to remove tlie buds, but this was found to be impossible, and aecoidingly a wall had to be uiult aiound the nest. Without icgird to whether oi no the biidsevei got out alive A IjUkii.d City of I'Yoimdv.— \\ c find the following in a Flonda p,i|i. i . — Koi the past si\ months the woi U ol digging the canal to connect Lakes FiHtneand Doia. in oidiM" to open up the moie southern lakes of the '"(Jieat Lake Region of Floiida,"' h.is been prosecuted. At the outlet cit L,iku Doi.i the sand lvi h.i-s alleady been cut to the depth of neaily, oi quite thiei.' fe< ton the pu \ imii> digging, and was dug .iliout two fietdecni-i last week. At .i distance ot over join fut bi'low the old level ol Lake Dm a a mound vv as diM o\ ci . d The (ii st escav ations lovoalcd the iM't.ini'o of a clcaily defined wall lying inn luu> tending toAvard the south vvi f«t Ii 'in wliuc it was first htmck. This vva 1 . w>s composed of a daik blown sand-stoiu', vciy much ciumbled in place-, but Mioie distinct, more clearly defined, n d the stone more solid as the digging ni( leased in depth. The wall was cvidciitlj thf eastern side of an ancient homo oi Km 'ideation, as the slope of the outer wall vv is to the west. About eight fn-'t fiom tin slojv of the eastern wall a mound ol n<l v»as stiuck imbedded in the muck fmuiation above andaiouud it. This sand mound was dv" into only a few inches as the depth of ° the watoi demamled l>ut a slight increased tlejith of the channel at tli.it point, but eiioMgh was discove.ed to warrant the belief that here cm the north- western shore of Lake Do. a is submerged a city, or town, or fortification older by centimes than anything yet discovered in this poitmii of Honda. Small. cmiously shaded blocks ot sandstone, some ot them lowing traces ot tii o, nieces of potU-iy and utensils n.ade of mottled flint, w c tin own out bythemeu while- workin wustdeep in water. A spearhead oi mottled Hint, five nn<\ a half indies lo» ( .' bv one and a qiaituj indies wide, nicely finish'-d, was taken f i oni t'.ie top of i c saml mound and abo'ii four feet below v iv water level of the lukc.