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Encircling Sea" (Pacific Ocean). Then comes "Chinumachin" (China); the next attractive inscription reads, "The prosperous countries of the Imperial Ottoman" (Turkey). The Mediterranean is named "White Sea;" Austriah, "The Province of Nemcheh;" Germany, "The Province of Prussia;" France, "The Province of Fransah." When you look more attentively over the map of Turkey you will find that all countries separated from the empire during the last twenty-five to thirty years are put under the same Turkish dominion. Constantinople is called "The Gate of Happiness;" Jerusalem, "The Sacred Holiness;" Damascus, "The Sacred Sham;" Mecca, "The Esteemed Mekkeh of Mysteries;" Medina, "The illuminated Medineh," etc. Both the map and its design carry us back thirty to forty years, and show how the real sciences of geography and history are abused in Turkish schools, which, perhaps, is the reason why an eminent telegraphic officer, a graduate of one of these higher schools, could not be persuaded that "Liverpool" was a single word. He insisted angrily that it was two words—"Liver" and "Pool"—until his Christian subordinate came and ended the dispute. One of the Turkish pashas, the highest provincial officers, hearing from a missionary about the Civil War in the United States, asked him with great surprise: "Why, havaja, did your kings get permission from the Sultan to declare war against each other?" During the last Russo-Turkish war the copies of a telegram were pasted on