... carrying out & contract which had been g thle entered ist.i for the purchase of a concession g~raiitedl s are by the Shah of Persia for the sole and exclusive p1 of right of iuitiating aud conducting the operation uf rrile lotteries throughout the Persian ...

... fact that Nosr-ed-Din's assassin was o BIahi, or xoai.er ffo El Bab. Concerning this partieular sect, tlhe following details are leteresting: Aoout fifti years ago there arose in Persia one El lnab, ho de clared himself to Ie the Messiah, and whvho gathered ...