Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — The Pasha and His Watch. [ARTICLE]

The Pasha and His Watch.

On the occasion of the Empress Eugenie’s visit to Cairo inlß69,Nubar Pasha was presented by Napoleon 111. with a valuable watch richly set, with diamonds. This watch he was in the habit of laying before him on the table during the meetings of the council which were generally held in the evening, At one of the sittings the electric light suddenly went out. When it was turned on again Nubar’s watch had disappeared. The Pasha scrutinized the faces of his colleagues one after the other, but not one winced under his gaze. At length he said: “Gentlemen, the watch that, according to my custom, I had lying here before me, has been removed. The door is locked on the inside, nobody has entered the room in the meantime and nobody has gone out. I attribute the loss of the watch to a bad joke or a tit of abstraction on the part of one of you gentlemen. I will now turn out the light once more, feeling convinced that when i| is turned on again the watch will be found in the usual place.” The light was then put out. When it shone brightly a minute later, not only was the place where the watch had lain still vacant but Nubar’s bejeweled inkstand, a present from Victor Immanuel, had also vanished. Nubar Pasha never saw these articles again.— National Zeitung.