Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-07-23

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: their families.
i. From among the many accounts {
9 European correspondents we clip an
publish the following from city papers
ut is said by those who ought to kno'
that when Buckingham Palace, Londor
, was being fitted up as a home for tn
Shah, one of the chief rooms was adorn
ed with rich carpet which had bee
designed and manufactured especially t
charm the eye of His Majesty. Th
story goes ON to say that couple of tn
Persian suite came here week ago t.
, see that all things were in readiness am
nothing overlooked, and that when the,
reached that particular room and glance'
at the lovely combination of green fig
ures and white ones in that carpet the,
gathered their robes carefully up abou
their knees and then went elaborated
tiptoeing about the floor with the aspec
and anxiety of couple of cats hunting
for dry ground in a wet country. ant
they stepped only on the white figures
and almost tainted whenever they Game
near touching green one. 1t is sale
that the explanation is that these visit
ing Persans are all Mohammedans, ant
green being a color sacred to the de
scendauts of the Prophet. and none o.
these people being so descended. it would
be dreadful PROCLAMATION for them to detile
the holy color with their feet. Aud the
general result of it all was that that car.
pet had to be taken up, and is dead
loss.
Strange stories were told of ruined
carpets, defled curtains, and an accumu-
lation of filth and horror of every de-
scription in the rooms occupied by the
Easterns at Berlin, while it was conf.
IDENTIFY stated that the coldness shown by
the German Emperor to his Oriental
guest. which permitted the Shah to pass
his last few days alone, and actually to
leave Berlin without the presence of any
of the imperial family, arose from the
fact that at a dinner at Charlottenberg
the Shah, disappearing of something he
was eating, actually spat out the contents
Of his mouth upon the skirts of his i'm.
perial hostess. Not pretty trick, and
perhaps not pretty story however, l
am only an " abstract chronicler" of the
times, and of such kind are the anec-
dotes with which our society is at pres
ent rife"
Next to the grass and trees, or per
hars before, the women of England have
had the honor to interest the Shah Re-
garding them naturally from the Oriental
point of view, His Majesty has made a
number of remarks which will scarcely
bear repetition in print. The prevailing
fashion of dress has given him abundant
opportunity to compare their attractions
with those of his own harem For three
be is reported TO have offered 100000,
with the option of canceling the bargain
and returning to England if after fair
trial they dislike Persia. One of the
three told me she was inclined to accept
if the money could be settled on herself,
and if she could feel sure about getting
back. But think no bargain has been
closed. At Lady Granville's party at
the Foreign Office, on Tuesday night, it
was an American lady-or, as some say,
two or three fair Americans-who had
the honor to attract this noble savage's
regard. At one or two dinners he has
found himself with lady on each side
of him, and this is practice which he
declares himself unable to uniersta tand.
They, on the other hand, have been en-
ligbtened by experience as to some Gus
toms which prevail in Persia, but have
hitherto been unknown in England. One
lady on rising from the table found her
lap filled with morsels from the Royal
plate, which, as she supposed, he had
found unpalatable aud quietly disposed
of in this way. Another beheld sundry
viands from time to time during dinner
transferred from the Shah's plate to her
own. There is even story that he took
such violent dislike to spinach when it
was served to him for the first time that
he elected it from his mouth on to the
plate of his neighbor. But to all these,
as to most of the other stories, there is
another side. The charitable and we'll
informed explain that these contributions
were meant as marks of royal favor and
were in the hight of good breeding, since
among Orientals it is the custom to be-
stow on guest the choicest morsels from
the hosts portion. and a King always
stands in the relation of host to every
body else"
1.-The Shah himself is an ugly cuss.
He resembles closely the picture OF the
more cruel of his forefathers, contained
in the early editions of the Arabian
Nights. / dare say he has caused many
a poor devils head to be chopped of on