... PERSIAN SHAH'S THRONE IN JEOPARDY. THE REPUBLICAN AGITATION. Jlcutcr’s Agency Icarus that nows from Persia decidedly obscure, and that it is difficult predict what will result the present Republican agitation for the deposition the Shah. Yesterday the ...

... for King (see Forbes’s “Persian Grammar’). Fiirst, in his “Chaldee Lexicon” writes Achas—Khßha, equivalent to Ksbja, new Persian Shah—that is, King. Artaxerxes (Chaldee, Artachsast v) —‘mighty ruler.’ Arta, a frequent prefix to the names of Eastern potentates ...

... painted, be-jewelled, are very attractive, all the more so that they are already antiquarian, even though Russian Czars and Persian Shahs keep up the old practice of presenting diamond snuff boxes to those whom they wish honour, if snuff taking were still general ...