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Show -JD IN bM?5-Bat bM?5-Bat the Saltan's A ,tionlaifS tlie opera tionaiVlOne. Odd stories are cojv rom Constantinople Constan-tinople ?i connection Vj. tj10 reccnt earthquakes. One has bee 0j G-jg. uf Block, physician to the vtan ib earthquake damaged tho pav' Q'f llQ palace in which he lives, and vidcnly two favorite wives of the sultan -wore precipitated through the ceiling l.to the doctor's room. All three Ced froia the building before it collapsed and found the sultan himself in the court-yard. court-yard. The etern practice of Islam left th Bultan no choice but to tie up his two wives j sacks and plunge them into the Bosporus, they having been gazed upoa by a profane giaour. Fortunately the sultan cherished affection for both off them, and having consulted the gran mufti he saw his way to have them pu ished symbolically. They were putjt0 sacks which were properly Eewj' Cp and duly taken to sequestered ,p0ts on the banks of the Bosporus, in the presence of a number of pra imams gently dipped into the softaineVaters, after which the women Q deemed to te purified. They were Jen removed to a new home and restrC(i to they: con-ngal con-ngal rights. Londq Troth. i ":: ..." " . |