Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — Demanded to Be Vaccinated. [ARTICLE]

Demanded to Be Vaccinated.

A good story is going the rounds of Constantinople that the annual vac-cination-of the inmates of the harem of the Sultan during the fast of Ramadan was omitted this year from motives of economy, as each victim was usually paid 1,000 or 2,000 francs for going through the ordeal. The result was a row of such tremendous proportions that the Sultan had to surrender. The wife of Congressman Springer writes poetry, but has not as yet prevailed upon her husband to quote any of it in his epeedM*.