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Show Trying to rhatiigrapn taa Saltan. TUero has been a terrible fuss at Constantinople Con-stantinople in consequence of a German photographer having rashly attempted to take an instantaneous photograph of the tultan as his majesty was proceeding on horseback to the mosque. Ho was detected de-tected by a functionary, and the guard at once rushed upon him, smashed all his Instruments to atoms and dragged him oil to prison, where he discovered that he was in a truly serious plight, for the koran strictly forbids the depicting of the human form, and his attempt to photograph pho-tograph tlio cultan was therefore regarded re-garded as high treason of a peculiarly diabolical kind, 11 tho culprit had not been a foreigner he would probably have been quietly strangled, or otherwise got rid of; but, thanks to the energetic intervention inter-vention of his ambassador, he was released re-leased after a month's imprisonment on condition that he quitted Turkey once and for ever. Chicago Mail. |