Show tho newspapers pers of recent travelers in persia find the newspapers of that hat land a source of perennial amusement there were nono none till fill tho the shall shah returned from europe two years year sago ago while in parillie paris Pari slie he saw the cabmen cabeen with newspapers in their hands when idle and naturally it is said attributed tri buted their general intelligence to this fact As soon as lie ho arrived in teheran lie he established a ministry of the press and called upon the nobles to aid him in his plans As a i result there are twelve journals in persia today among them is the official organ iran arau to read them however requires considerable 0 ability as they ire are printed in a mixture of turkish persian and arabic with french and russian words hero and there sheref nn an illustrated p paper aper in teheran Teli cran contains only portraits of russian and european celebrities when one can read them however ho he finds their grave comments on western affairs more amusing than the mos most labored efforts in punch or the paris comics |