Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — FOOLED THE EXPERTS. [ARTICLE]

FOOLED THE EXPERTS.

The sultan of Turkey recently played an amusing joke at the expen*; of som n medical experts at Constantinople. When the plague broke o”t in his capital, the sultan asked if anything was known as to the cause. On being informed that it was to he found in the state of the drinking water lie called at once for six empty bottles, which h§ had filled in his presence, all from the same one of the palace wells, placed his own seal upon them and then, without divulging their community of origin, handed all six to a prominent analyst. To his amazement the report sent in was that four of the samples contained plague microbes. The fifth was merely putrid water and the sixtli was quite pure. Abdul Hamid calmly shrugged his shoulders, and kept his thoughts to himself.