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... —Traces of the game extend beyond history. i.—lt is ot Eastern, probably Persian, origin, as Us name is derived from the Persian shah, king” and means the game of kings. 6.— A cleric of Safra. in Estramadura, Spain, who published a work on chess in li6i ...
... read, When His Majesty the Cat Receives in His Drawing Room.” The reason for this is that the French word for cat and the Persian Shah are pronounced in the same way, and the Government concerned thought that a pun was implied. In fact, it is of such incidents ...
... attacks the king. The word oomes through the old French “eschec,” “eechac” from the Middle Latin form, “scacous” of the Persian Shah, i.e., king, and was early applied to token, ticket, or counterfoil. When first introduced into ordinary city parlance ...
... leader mainly | is bow reosiving the astemtion of ber Ms- of Siam is oix year of the quite a flatter in London “Vey han the Persian Shah, whose remarkable only by the ones g brillancy of bis orters of the Wousen's what has been done by would s of Wiseoesin ...
... demands of the Government. These they conceded and Judgment that seems to me to be a point of vital importance.'' FORMER PERSIAN SHAH. Death in Paris After Life of Pleasure. Paris. Thursday. Ahmad Kajar, ex-Shah of Persia, has died In the American Hospital ...
... worried about it do you think he will be all right ?” Pc Fisher said that Johnson had died in a Sheffield hospital yesterday Persian Shah to be guest at Palace Shah of Persia pay a three State visit to the United Kingdom next May A correspondent writes that ...
... Porte. 'lle nominal supremacy of the Sultan, hoarser. is to be acknowledged—a barren honour indeed. It is said that the Persian Shah has offered to assist the Sultan against the Egyptians. This would be no great io Ip. Posietuat.—Tina dates from Oporto ...
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... (Div of £250: 2m GOLDSMITH A Branford 7 2 1 Tilstina 100-6 2: Kebab 20-1 3 Runners: Esk Water Border Slipper Pados Barker Persian Shah Prince Jim Wondwine Star Game Afecto Last Phehus Tilstina On Circuit Goldsmith Royal Manor King's Glow Qutient Blue Plume ...
... firework displays at the rear of Sydenham Crystal Palace, which have been suca^easively gazed on by the Turkish Sultan, the Persian Shah, the Zanzibar ruler, and other magnates, pale before the great pyro- technic exhibition promised at Malta on the occasion ...
... situ, ated. , It U this garden which yields tha world-famous attar roses, mat luscious perfume which, in olden times, Persian Shahs commanded should be used exclusively in their harems, and which, even to-day, in India, to offered to wedding guests llttia ...
... in smoking. Urban the Eighth and louocvnt the Twelfth ex communicated smokers. SultausaudCzarscut oil* their heads, and Persian Shahs their noses! Le Hemneton (Cockchalfer) was one of thoso and witty publications so numerous in Paris. Having entered upon ...