Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-11
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of the police and secret service, S., 900.
The royalties will be lodged at tho
foreign office, and their apartments
will be furnished with pieces from
the museums and hung with antique
ooblein tapestries and OLD masters.
The French army has admitted to
its ranks q. youth named Defrance,
who. although OF the military age.
twenty, weighs only forty-two pounds
and is only three feet three and one
quarter inches tall. The medical
board found him physically fit in
every way. 1t is understood he Will
be assigned to duties which will not
oblige him to carry the marching
outfit of the French soldier. The out
fit is one and one-ha1f times the mid
gets weight
LONDON, April liza mother Of
pearl ikon OF the LORDS Last Sug-
per" almost IDENTICAL TO that pre-
sented to the Emperor of Russia by
the Sultan of Turkey as a peace of.
fering on the outbreak of tho late
war with Italy liz in London await
ing claimant. 1t was destined for
King George. but because ii is not an
Official gift it cannot be presented TO
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right to accept it. the ilkon remains
without a master.
The history of the ikon began when
Italy cast covetous eyes on Turkeys
Tripolian possessions. The sultan, in
need of friends, determined to turn to
his powerful neighbor on the north and
i'll true Oriental fashion decided to
accompany his overtures with a gift.
He ordered the Kobi an Arabian
tribe celebrated for it's mother of
pearl work, to make an illon of the
Lords Last Supper" for presenta-
ton to the Russian emperor. It was
no small order, for the mother of
pearl had to be carried a twelve-day
camel journey into the interior from
the seashore.
While the tribe was at work on the
ikon one of its members, who had
served in the British army, paid a
visit to his old home, and when he
saw what was being done he insist
ed that it would be the grossest dis
courtesy to his royal master il a
similar gift was not made for King
George. The only difference between
the two is that the Russian gift is
surmounted by the imperial arms of
Russia while the English image bears
the royal arms of Great Britain.
When the Russian gift was finished
the agents Of the sultan paid for it
and carried it away, but the Kobi
tribesmen did not know how to send
the replica TO King George 1t was
finally taken to Sir John Gray Hill,
of Liverpool, who maintains a VIM
ter home on the Mount of Olives in
Jerusalem. Lady Hill paid the tribes
men for their work aud brought the
ikon to London.
The illon is made in the form of a
bathroom with the front elevation
surmounted by the royal arms. The
figure of the SaNious and Fl disciples
about the table are done in full re-
lief in solid mother of pearl. The
work is very complete. even the
smallest table utens Is in mother of
pearl occupying their ordinary place
on the table, The workmanship is
exquisite and the design excellently
done. II is probable that if no means
can be found for delivering the ikon
to the king it will find a resting place
in some London museum.