Suits of clothes, shirts, socks, hats, and uniforms are continually pouring in from all parts of Europe, many of the latter anything but becoming to the fat, podgy figure of the "King's Shadow." A photograph of his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught in Rifle Brigade uniform was shown him a couple of years since.

The Court tailor was at once sent for.

"I must have this; make it at once," was the command, the humble request to be allowed to take the measure being met by, "Son of a hell-burnt father! What do you mean?
Make it for a well-made man--a man with a better figure than that, and it will fit me!" Popular as he is with the lower orders, the Zil-i-Sultan does not, when offenders are brought before him, err on the side of mercy.
Persian justice is short, sharp, and severe, and a man who commits a crime in the morning, may be minus his head before sunset.

Although a Persian would indignantly deny it, some of their punishments are nearly as cruel as the Chinese.

For instance, not so very long ago a man in Southern Persia was convicted of incest, for which crime his eyes were first torn out with pincers, and his teeth then extracted, one by one, sharpened to a point, and hammered, like nails, through the top of his skull.