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Show 8ultan's Wonderful Jewels. A correspondent, writing from Constantinople Con-stantinople to a Paris Journal, claims, as the result of personal lnspeotlon, to give details of the amazing collection collec-tion of Jewels In tho Sultan's treasury. treas-ury. Tho turbunR of all the Sultans lalnco Mahomet II nro there, all gilt-torlng gilt-torlng with rnro and largo goms of the purest water. There aro also the royal throno of Persia, carried off by 'the Turks In 151-1, and covered with .more than 20,000 rubles, omeralds and 'fine pearls, nnd also tho throne of Bulelmnn I, from the dome of which there hangs over tho head of the Caliph an emerald six Inches long and four deep. Theso two thrones aro tho' chief objects In tho collection. |