Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1875 — A Slight Misunderstanding. [ARTICLE]

A Slight Misunderstanding.

The Gartenlaube tells the following: Just previous to Abdel Kader’s departure from Paris in the fall of 186 q Emil Girardin gave a grand entertainment in honor of the Emir, to which he invited all his Ijterary friends and notable acquaintances. In the course of the evening Girardin said to Abdel Kader: “I should esteem it a favor if you would accept 1 My Two Sisters’ as a trifling memento ot this day.” “My Two Sisters” (the latest drama by the speaker) was just then creating an extraordinary furor. The interpreter, however, forgot tp mention .this fact. The hero of the evening and t witn'h stately bow, folded his arms across Ms breast, and, turning to his said: < “ I shall consider myself happy in accepting your gift, but as riiy seraglio is rather crowded at presentliahould like to provide suitable apartments before receiving the ladies.” 3 Amidst shouts of langhter the matter was explained to the obliging Emir. Another storyis told abodt hiin ! . while captive and confined m a French, fortress, that became his residence ip the meantime. His children received instructions in French and writing from a professor who daily visited the prison for that purpose. Abdel, was so pleased with this teacher that he startled the studious fellow one day by presenting him with one of his wives. The poor sohl, who, by the wav, was already provided with a wife, and one possessing a good share bf that superfluous temper for which Xantippe is so widely celebrated, was not particularly rejoiced with the Emir’s generosity, and had the greatest difficulty to make him understand why he could not accept the gift, or why his eyes and scalp Would be in danger if he ventured to introduce a second wife into his household.