| Show SULTAN A in the closet of TBT leeg ealr Ift hinga ft ere ame in turkey as elsewhere the decease of the sultans maj murad V would have been notified uoti fied to the diplomatic body and the turkish court would have gone into mourning eaje a correspondent of the glasgow herald but it is for bidden to openly of the sultans female relatives or of the sultans heir the man who will succeed abdul ia a wretched lean palefaces pale faced creature of 45 years he is the sultans own brother and is kept a close prisoner in the palace grounds lest he should conspire fur his Maje downfall he has certainly no such intention but usage requires that a sultans heir apparent should be treated as a suspected criminal and abdul humid ismach too nervous a creature to innovate in this particular ti he has a horrible fear lest bis brother murad V who became crazy from having been raised to the throne too suddenly should recover his senses but of this there is no chance and now that murada mother is dead who will there be to prevent the poor lunatic from being hurried to his end by a pinch of something in his caff murad s mother the sultana nadine superintended super intended his household and never left him it would have been impossible to molest him while she was alive but it would only be too much in keeping with turkish traditions if the unhappy madman were now quietly removed in order that abdul hamid might sleep more soundly A wonderful lily japan mail one hears of the wonderful productiveness of the golden lily lindley some years ao an instance was recorded of aae under cultivation bearing no lees than thirty five flowers happened at in Fite shire scotland in 1888 the record is quite beaten by a pla t in llie garden of a foreign resident at Karu izawa which is now bearing no fewer than era on one stalk itself la six feet high aad towards alie upper end it flattens out the buda banging like keys on a baard the upper extremely is cleft is thus allowed far alie remarkable remar kabe luxuriance ot just described in ane far latt of sapt it is stated thib there grew in the gar dun of mr U C bearson on the bluff no ill two stems from one bulb one n as a fair specimen of the ordinary of the plant having 0 fl ju era upon il but the other upon a broad flat stem about an inch and a half in w idab bat thin as a lath liaa no lees thao sixta three buds cf which fifty two were in full flover at one t me enough if not toa much yew york aun do you know that broan who sings next door 7 only by ear A fling at noah new york sun the ark contained two of every kind of beast eaid mr Har drinker no returned his unhappy spouse there was only one hard drinker in the ark |
