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Show The Sultan's Little Joke. M (Constantinople Correspondence Fall Mall (Jazette.) An amusing story i.; told of a little jest practiced dv the saltan at the expense of the ' medical experts. When the platru. broke out in his capital the sultan askel if anything was known as to the cause. On being 'informed that It was to t. found in the state of the drinking water he called at once for six empty bottles, which he had filled in his presence, all from the same one of the palace wells. placed his own seal upon them, and then. without divulging their community of or- I igin handed all six to a prominent nr.- ! alyst. To his amazement the r. port'se"t in was that four of the samples contained con-tained plague microbes. The fifth was merely putrid water, and the sixth w:n quite pure. Abdul Hamid merel ,-shrugged ,-shrugged his shoulders and kept h:-5 thoughts to himself. |