NO DOUBT FROM HOME EXPERIENCE.
It is said that when the Austrian Minister of Justice was lately_introdudi|>d to the Shah of Persia in Vienna, % Shah, who had not exactly caught the words of the introduction at first,„allied, to have them repeated, and being fc>ld that it was the Minister, of Justice, who was presented to him, said mth - a self- satisfied smile, " Ah, I under* stand!" and made a significant ges&q* + towards his own neck, thereby intitnatih* thac he assumed the functions of the Austrian statesman to be those of an executioner. The Minister seemed bonified, and some of the company smiled 1; but the Shah kept on repeating with perfact complacency, "Ah, I,understand I-' delighted to show that there was something he did understand in the ways of Europe. ;
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3093, 16 January 1879, Page 2
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130NO DOUBT FROM HOME EXPERIENCE. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3093, 16 January 1879, Page 2
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