Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20
How It Is Managed I'm Turkey.

Not long ago certain Pasha of exalted position borrowed sum of money from Frenohman, and when the time for Yepay- ment came he was unable to raise the re- quired amount. "But," said he, eff can not give you money, for have none, I can at least give you lucrative posr-namely, the repairing of the tombs of the Sultans, which are in bad state, and you can re- move those old tiles which people care for, and replace them by modern ones made in France" Needless to say, this post was willingly accepted, and on setting to work the delighted Frenchman discovered, in 8 vault beneath one of the tembs, whole heap of ancient tiles, which provident Turks of a bygone age had put there with view to restoration, but of the existence of which the Turks of this generation were ignorant Endless cases of valuable tiles were thus collected and dispatched to France, and when it was found absolutely necessary to make restorations cheap new tiles made in France were put up, and thus did the French creditor make over and over again the sum of money he had advanced to the Pasha. The recurrence of such an act of depreciation is practically impossible under Handi's strict supervision. A clever imam, however, contrived to outwit the police re- gulations on this point in the following way. He was priest Gmam) of a mosque some little way np the Golden Horn which was very much out of repair. This fact he represented at headquarters and obtained an order from the evkaf for the repairing of it. The first thing he did was to have the whole of the interior whitewashed over, tiles and all, and, when all the restorations were completed to bis satisfaction, he sent for the overseer, whose duty it was to make an inventory of everything in and about the mosque. This was accordingly done, and the mosque was registered as containing no tiles. The cunning imam then kept quiet for about aix months, until he considered it safe to remove by night the tiles from the walls and whitewash the vacant spaces over again. With these treasures he hurried to the shop of some friendly antiquity dealer in the bazaars and made his bargain. Such small acts of depreciation are of frequent oo- currenoe still, and even the astutest director of a museum cannot contend with them.
 Tine Bust From a Volcanic Eruption.
 From the Contemporary Reviewl
 It appears that this cloud of dust started immediately from Krakatoa for series of voyages around the world. The highway which is at first pursued may, for our pres ent purpose, be sufficiently defined by the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capri- corn, though 1t hardly approached these margins at first. Westward the dust of Kra- katoa takes it's way. In three days it has crossed the Indian Ocean, and was rapidly flying over the heart of Equatorial Africa; for another couple of days it was making a transatlantic journey and then it might be found for still couple of days more over the forests of Brazil ere it commenced the great Pacific voyage, which brought it back to the East Indies. The dust of Krakatoa had put rirdle around the earth in thir- teen days. The shape of the cloud appears to have been elongated, so that it took two or three days to complete the passage over any stated place. When the dust cloud nod fbo Straits nf Sunda the eruption was all over, but the winds were still the same as before, and again the comminuted pumioo sped on it's impetuous career The density of the cloud had, however, lessened. Doubtless much of the material was subsiding, and the remainder was becoming diffused over wider area. Accordingly we find that the track of the stream during this second revolution ii somewhat wider than it was on the first though still mainly confined between the tropics. The speed with which the dust revolved was, however, unabated. Conti' nents and oceans were again swept over with e velocity double that of an express train, and again the earth WAS surrounded within the fortnight. The dust cloud had now fur ther widened it's limits, but still distin- guishable, and with unlessened speed com menced for third time to encircle the earth. The limits of the stream had spread them selves outside the tropics, though still fall ing short Of Europe There is no reason to think that there was any decline in the ve~ locity of seventy-six miles per hour, but the gradual diffusion of the dust begins to ob- literate the indications by which its move monts could be perceived, so that during, and after, the third circuit the phenomena became so fused that while their glory covers the earth, the distinction between the suc- cessive returns has vanished. In November the area which contained the Krakatoa dust had sufficiently expanded from it's original tropical limits to include Europe and the greater part of North America. During the winter mouths the suspended material grad ually subsided, or at all events became evan escent, and in the following spring the earth regained its normal state insofar as the Straits of Sunda were concerned.