The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-24
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pass on the chorus, so the barking, howl
ing and whining echoed far and near goes
on, not disturbing the resident Turk who
can i'll spare what long custom has made
necessary to his complete rest. The
stranger, however. Is willing to dispose Of
his share in lots to suit. Should dog be-
come rabid, which rarely occurs in this
equable climate. the police promptly kill
every dog in that street When, shortly
after, from some source q new and COM
plete set install themselves in those. for
once dog-deserted haunts. There is s.
Turkish proverb that the Disappearance OF
the dogs will take the Ottanan empirs
with it. Personally [ am satisfied the
proverb may safely be reversed.
THE THIRD VISITATION
that frets your trou bled sleep is the night
Waterman tbektchi), who prowls about the
streets, coming under the silent windows
and striking on the pavement with heavy
iron nobbed stick the hours of the night,
or otherwise letting you know that he is
on duty. To the Joy of residents and
and travellers this custom was once
abolished for a brief period, but old timers
deprived of the accustomed lullaby could
sleep no longer, and thieves were in dis
pair; not knowing the guardians where
abouts they were unable to avoid him, so
the influence of both parties had the
bektchl and his stick brought back in full
cry.
AS seen from the Galata tower the loca-
ton of Constantinople is unquestionably
the finest in the world for great capital.
TO the sou IN is seen Gaata and Stapb oul
separated by the Golden Horn, the
Seraglio point, the sea of MarmOra, the
Princes island where most Europeans re-
side. the Bithynian chain of mountains
and the snow-caDped peak of Mount Olym-
~
phoruS, Hidar- Pasha, Scutari and the
towering height of Mount BouigouroD in
the north comes Pers, Pancaldi and other
heights called Bethiktesh, with Yields
Kiosk, the residence of the sultan On the
west lie Kassim Patha, a table-land the
hills of Ayoub and the valley of the Euro
pean Sweet-water.
AS TO the city itself of 100000 inhabit-
ants, take away the mosques with their at
tendant minarets, the yelled women and
the fez, the dogs and bazaars anu the sui
tap's city is as thoroughly modern as
Paris, as fiat and uuinterestiug as any
western city of the plains.
The public fave mart for the sale Of Chr
cassion girls was abolished about thirty
years ago. but it is said to be still secretly
carried on by Circassian dealers in certain
coffee houses here. The exact wherea-
bouts these transactions take place Is. how
ever. secret which your Musselmen war
lily guard from the Drying eyes OF us dogs
OF infldels.'
INTERESTING CURIOsITIEs.
In the meagre collections at the museum,
1 saw the iewelry and other antiquities
found by DR.. SchIieman at Troy, number
of BAD lonian stone cylinders with in
scriptious, which probably furnished the
idea for q revolving press, one of the
heads of the serpentiDe column of the
hippodrome on which reposed the sacred
golden tripod of the oracle at Dolphin, and
some metallic collins or caskets as we call
them, exnumed at Bsgdad and not less
than twenty centuries old.
The most interesting objects 10 the
world famed morgue of st. Sophia are
marble columns that were taken from the
temple Of Diana at Ephesus and the ruins
of the temple of Solomon at Jerusalem.
On the conquest OF Constsntinople
by the Turks, the interior OF ST.
Sophia was the scene of the massacre of the
Christians who had sought refuge and sue
cor WITHIN its walls; the sanctuary was
violated then as it frequently was after
wards and the few that were not killed
were doomed to slavery while everything
of value in the then Christian church was
either destroyed or carried away by the
pillagers-
In one of the mosques here Is the sarco-
phagues of Sultan Abdul Az-iz, whom you
may remember as having been secretly as