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Show UUCKED IN bAvKS. But the Saltan's Affection Mad the Opera tlon a Mild One. Odd stories are coming from Constantinople Constan-tinople connection with the recent earthquakes. One has been told of Gjus-euf Gjus-euf Block, physician to the sultan. Th earthquake damaged the part of the palace in which he lives, and suddenly two favorite wives of the sultan were precipitated through the ceiling into the doctor's room. All three fled from the building befoi'6 it collapsed and found the sultan himself in the courtyard. court-yard. The stern practice of Islam left th eultan no " ice but to tie up his two wives in t,.- i and plunge them into the Bosporus, they having been gazed upoa by a profane giaour. Fortunately the uultan cherished affection for both of them, and having consulted the grand mufti he saw his way to have them punished pun-ished symbolically. They were put into sacks which were properly sewed up and duly taken to sequestered spots on che banks of the Bosporus, and in the presence of a number of praying imams gently dipped into the soft, blue waters, after which the women were deemed to tie purified. They were then removed to a new home aud restored to their con-ugal con-ugal rights. -London Truth. |