Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — Size of the Sultan’s Brain. [ARTICLE]

Size of the Sultan’s Brain.

A story which I heard from one who has long resided in Constantinople may illustrate the dimensions of the Sultan’s intellect. Qn one occasion a foreign embassador was introduced, who found the Sultan preoccupied, his brow weighed down with care. The first word that fell from his lips indicated how he felt the burdens which rested upon him, to which the embassador replied, with respectful sympathy, that the affairs of state which oppressed liis majesty must indeed be overwhelming. Thus drawn out, the Sultan mentioned the problem which at that very moment vexed the .imperial-mind—it was a be made in regard to the cafe's in Constantinople. If this be true (and I have it from authority which I cannot question), it gives the measure of the man. It shows a mind which delights itself in petty details, and is incapable of rising to the level of public affairs. Rev. Henry M. Field. ,r