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Meteorologists tell us that last month was the finest March for the last 25 years. The membership of the ..

... of Mr. Swinburne, a possible successor to Lord Tennyson in the Poet Laureateship. The Sultan Turkey has 300 wives, the Persian Shah 400, the King 600, and the King of Ashantee 3,000. The Cambrian railways have notified the abolition of second class carriages ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1893
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Madrid, January 13

... discussion in the English Press. Mirza Malkom Khan has been scut to Petersburg to announce the arrival in April of the Persian Shah. AMBKICA. THE CUBA QUESTION. Phtla h : a. January 12. Some eacitmg rumours have been in circulation resi>ectitig the Spanish ...

Published: Thursday 16 January 1873
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE SHAH OF PERSIA

... in his Diary gives the best account of the impression made by this third visit of the Shah. Says the Prince :— The Persian Shah is much less of an Asiatic than he showed himself to be ten years ago. Some say he has become more serious, others that ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1889
Newspaper: Oxfordshire Weekly News
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE RUSSIANS IN ASIA

... and its discussion in the Engtish Press, Mirza Malkom Khan bes been sent to St, to annouace the arrival in April of the Persian Shah. The Shah will vieit St. Petersbarg, Berlin, Vienna, London, and Paris, and return bome by Constantinople, THR BOMBAY MAIL ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1873
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CROSS FOR THE PERSIAN WAR

... last week conferred on Mr. Gibbs, tbe Prince of Wales's tutor. We wish tbe gallant fellows wbo so valiantly daunted tbe Persian Shah in the field and afloat under Oo tram and Leeke success ia itbeir aspirations after ! a badge to denote tbe part tbey took ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1858
Newspaper: Hampshire Advertiser
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE CAPTURE OF HERAT

... Petersburg!), Russian force of 50,000 men, commanded by General Bernhoff, waa prepared to march to the support of the Persian Shah. This looks very like renewal of the late war on the European and Aaiatic frontier. Alt preceding accounts must have prepared ...

HERAT

... Baruksais. Herat was then independent both of Persia and of the rulers of Cabal,but it was coveted by Mahomed Mina, the Persian Shah. Shah Mahomed required Shah Kamran to acknowledge his suzerainty, and surrender the title of Shah, and on his refusal marched ...

Published: Friday 26 September 1879
Newspaper: Bicester Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 999 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

How Persians Smoke Tobacco

... Europe the social status of a man may be guessed by his.dress or his equipage,' in Persia it is denoted by his pipe. A Persian shah or nrince has his pipe covered with richly enamelled plates of gold and silver and incrusted with gems, such as rubies ...

FOREIGN MISCELLANY

... country he and his whole jj'tewill be the guests of the Sultan. This is hrst occasion since the conquest of Bagdad a * a Persian Shah has made his appearance -1 urkish soil, and there is some talk at Constantinople of taking the opportunity for pro- ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1870
Newspaper: Bucks Herald
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1302 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GOSSIP ON MEN AND THINGS

... doctor. “ It’s use, responded the patient ; “no tongue can tell how 1 feel.” Among tha things ordered recently in Paris the Persian Shah are organ and garden boae. is true Eastern luxury. It is only such monarch who can afford to play organ grinder. With us ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1894
Newspaper: Hampshire Advertiser
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1091 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

(111,6* apitling.to: tie 21.0 eistasisial

... and spectacled guest of two seasons bac 3 / 4 ,—that, in brief, the Lord Mayor of Loudon is to the Parisians but another Persian Shah, a mach-bedecked and highly-attractive savage P A man of one subject is - proverbially and positively a bore, but n ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1875
Newspaper: Dover Chronicle
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 1194 | Page: 5 | Tags: none