St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
man who has risen through his tall
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A STAR RASCAL.

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But the most notorious of the -slil-
tan'S ministry is the minister OF mar
inc. Hassan Pasha, II published re
ports are to be believed. Hassan
Pasha, it is true. Is sailor, but Ae
ds said to be totally wanting in. PRO
fesSfonal DASH" and he has been
charged with cowardice. lie pretends
to be a devout Mussu1man, and in
so doing won the support of the pal
ace ulemas (priests), and through
them that of Abdul Hamid. Hassan
has been minister of marine through
several ministeries for seventeen
years past, to the extinction of the
Turkish fleet and great profit to him
self and the sultan. Hassan is said
to boast that Abdul Hamid dare not
depoSe him, and the sultan and he
are said to have divided enormous
sums of money intended for the main
tenance of the Turkish fleet. The
two most influential men in Turkey
are said to be Lufti Agha, the body
servant and adviser of the sultan,
and Abdul Huda, the sultans pri-
vate priest.
A description of the British en-
bassy at Therapia, a village about
seven miles from Coustantinople,
shows it to be we'll and safely situ-
ated in the event of fanatical out
break. There are high, thick walls,
with a couple of guns defending the
entrance, while the road leading to
the embassy is commanded by the
guns of British gunboat lying op-.
posite the embassy, in the Bosphorus,
from which the embassy building is
only separated by narrow road.
The servants and personnel of the
embassy number about fifty men. and
they are we'll armed and have plenty
of ammunition. The fact that these
details are published here shows that
IN some quarters the belief prevails
that the British embassy is not en-
tfrely free from the possibility of at
tack
MULCTING NEWSPAPERS.
The methods of the big London pho
tographers are receiving an airing just
now in the columns of the Times. 1t
has been the habit of these houses to
request the honor of a sitting of
royalties. beauties, stage celebrities,
ETC., and it appears many thus ac-
cepting a free sitting, under the Eng
lish copyright law, unwittingly relin-
quish the copyright of the photograph
to the photographer, who then tries to
make money out Of it-''blackmail'' has
been the term used here. The illus
trated newspapers especially seem to
have; been mulcted in all kinds of ways
There is one instance of a newspaper
which paid $50 for the use of a royal
photograph and on the following week
another paid $500 for the same photo
graph. In another case a photograph
er charged two newspapers. S525 apiece
for the use of a portrait, and soon
afterwards a big firm, unaware of the
copyright, republished it, and the next
day received a threatening letter de-
manding big damages. Members of
the royal family are a large source of
income to this class of photographers,
and it is a common experience among
the newspapers to receive a shower of
demands for fees of all kinds from
photographers as soon as a new pho
tograph is published.
The British Medical Journal says
that, as the result of the extensive in
quiry among the principal officers of
health, it is able to state that there
are distinct indications of influenza
again becoming prevalent in the north
and east of London, in Surrey and in
the West Riding Of Yorkshire. Dsaths
from influenza have occurred at Bir-
mingham, Manchester and Liverpool.