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Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3572, 26 March 1880, Page 3

Ecnevolent, old lady: ' Tell your mother, William situ-bs, thai I shall call in during'the flay,and give'her a little spiritual comfort. W. S.: 1 fcibg'ull lie glad o 1 that, mirm, cos she can t pay the scare at the Bull sisce fayther died, and ain't 'ad no spirits fur a week,' Some estimate may bo formed of the recldesa waste that is the habit at Constantinople from the following fid, /.I'dul Medjid insisted that all the ladies rf his h-irem should he covered with jewel?, and that there tkoukl always he a fnnga of diamonds round their wide trousers. When he died, the bills of the harem amounted to the modest sum of ,-^5,000,000 It will possibly be a causiialion to the British bondholder to know how judiciously and right royally his money was amended, audio the British hush nd to compare his bills with those of the Commander of h? FawhliJ,/'Ct/i.