The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-02-05
MANTUA STATION.

CO5TeSl)0Nuence
J. DIR. j. NJ. PEBBLES, of Hammondton
N. J., who, was appointed U. s. Con.
sui to Trebizond in 1869, and has been
twice and a half around the world,
gave two very instructive and enter
tanning lectures at Citizens Hall on
Wednesday and Thursday nights, con-
corning the things he had seen in his
travels, the different types aud races OF
peoples-mostly of the East-being IL
lustrated by some 100 portraits or
sketches, the work of the lecturers
wife, who enlarged them from photo
graphs procured by him, introducing
in nearly every case, the natural color
of the skin, eyes and hair, together
with ornaments, apparel, etc.
DIR. PEBBLES gave some account of his
voyages and visits to the Sandwich
Islands. Australia. New Zealand, Cet-
lon and India, confining his remarks
principally to the latter country with
its 1861, 900 square miles,of territory
and dense population of $50, 900, 900.
"Why!" said the DR.. =" we are accus-
toned to consider ours a great country
with some 5O,OOO.OOO. Though the ma
tive population was originally divided
into four great tribes or castles, viz: the
Brahmins, or priests the Kshatriyas,
or warriors and rulers, the Vaisyas, or
agriculturists and traders, and the
Toodras, or laborers and servants, the
speaker claimed that the number was
now nearer forty. s'-
The religion, social customs, etc., of
this remarkable people were clearly and
graphically described. Two forms. of
disposing of the dead, witnessed by the
speaker, were described; one by fire,
a body being laid upon a pile of sandal
wood, bamboo, etc., and entirely COW
cred with faggots, then oil is poured
over the whole and the torch applied /;
the other, exposure upon towers some
twenty feet high, called towers of 81
lence, covered by grating upon which
the bodies were laid to be food for
birds of prey, and perhaps to be carried
away piece meal. Said the DR.. quaint.
ly, II would much prefer the former.
for there is nothing offensive to any of
the senses, and fire purifes." The
juggling performances. as seen by him,
only corroborates the statements of
other travellers and writers, and in
cluded the mango tree growth, splitting
up of nails, pebbles. ETC., the moving
of inanimate objects at word of COM
mand, all done without the usual ac-.
cessories of sleight of hand performers.
In conclusion the DR.. described some
of the narrowing scenes of the recent
famine in India, having passed on the
road scores of people dead from starv-
alton, within sight almost of aff1uence
and plenty; also paid high tribute to
the Hindoo,' whom he described as
calm, collected and capable possessed
of great, fortitude and patience, these
characteristics being more strongly de-
veloped in the Brahmins..a e,...-f.:.,
VIM. Smith, taking advantage of the
open weather for the past month, and
the high water, has f1oated quite a
number of logs down the Cuyahoga to
his mill.
The location of the pumping station
for Pipe Line is at last definitely set
tied, the Company having purchased a
number of acres of land of Chuancey
Blair, at the water tank east of the
Station. Materials for construction
are coming in and the work will be
pushed as rapidly as the weather will
permit. .'''.-
.a Upon asking a young man attending
Hiram College if he knew anything of
the whereabouts of the classic locality
of g Pigwoeket" SO often mentioned
by your correspondent at that place, lie
confessed his entire ignorance concern
ing the same. Is there not something
lacking in the College curriculum, that
these things are thus?
r. e. PORTER.