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Show . ARABI AS A POLITICIAN. The Arab is a born gossip, rivaling in his ability to manulacture news at short notice a New England sewing circle. If you ask him what is happening, hap-pening, he looks at, you with a scrutinizing scru-tinizing glance- mkes up his mind wh.it kind of n ws you want and then cooly starts to tell you a quantity of audi' lie makes up as he goes along. ; Thi Arab is a gifted man in many other resiect8. He oan kiss your feet'il' you are to do him a service, aud alter you have done it ha will set I . 'Ay ' I firo to your house or brain you with a jl piece of your owngfurniture in sweefe fl aTget fulness that'jyou have been his friend in Mmc of need. He can cheat ra trade almost as deftly as a Christ- ian ard exhibit a great many other tH ! vices which belong to a high state of ( iviliaation. Arabi has himself shown ' powers of deception of a high orderr and if he would resignand emigrate to Amerioa he could become a first class politician, or a splenMid railroad. President, or a defrauding cashier of a rich corporation, and it would not be necessary for him to change his moral na'ure in the very leaEt. He fl would here find himself among bis fl equals, one of a class of men who oan ate !il an office and then usa its iuflu- once 1 or personal gain. Yes, he is a rare man in Egypt, but he would feci entirely at homu in this country, Ex, |