New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-15
LAND or HE LION AND TIE SON.
s. G. W. BENJAMIN TELLS OF HIS LIFE IN PERSIA
BFFoRG THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

S. G. W. BENJAMIN TELLS OF Ills LIFE IN PERSIA
BrFoRG THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
An audience which filed every seat in
Chckerng Hall last evening welcomed S. G. w.
benjamin. ex.Untcd States Minister to Persia,
in his lecture before the Geographical So
ciety Persia and the Persans." Chief
Justice Charles T. DAILY introduced speaker, who
said in part:
Although shorn OF OF her vast territorial
sions which at various times have extended from the
Ganges the Nile and from the Don TO the Indian
Gee Persia is yet by Insignificant power.
Her limits include moro than the Of France and
Germany combined, while the intellectual vigOr Of
her people after the lapse of 5000 years shows
few signs Of doseueracy Persia has occupied compare.
lively small share Of the worlds attention for two
reasons her religion which is Mohammedan, and her in
accessibility, rendered by the mountain ranges which
shut her In as completely as would Chinese wall Ig
noTanco OF the true condition OF Persia Is very general
IN consequences Tue traveller wishing to go to iehera
the capital, cannot mako bis journey BY rail-
post, at the rate OF eighty miles day, special order
from the shah being necessary for this method OF loco
motion Presenting this order to tho keeper of tho road
station procures fresh relay OF horses and after cyp
Of tea from the smoking samOYar tea urn, the
r6p s ao sen Of On ra1 ' hs sf
haustlng, AMI practically impossible for the ntrm and
must travel at night owing to the heat
The country abounds with game Wild boars are COM
mon in the mountains. The natives hunt the animals
but them they consider pork unclean This
turcrs who rOte me to enquire about opening trade
in sausage with Persia Probably the article would have
with enthusiastic reception there
warming pans in Cuba palm leaf fans
the North Pole. Tue Shah Is great
sporman and 1t partly this that no owes his con-
naod robust health after reign OF forty years In his
travels the shah has been known to be followed By
train attendants numbering %, 900 persons. mans
rank IN Persia ia largely ieckoned by the size OF his es
cOrt Tho Shah Is q courageous hunter On one OF his
hunting excursions the party attacked by tiger
which appearing suddenly, by several rapid bounds
placed himself within few feet OF tho King Every
fed but Ills Majesty, who after taking careful aim, shot
the tiger through the heart As to the domestic relations
OF the Ptrsians OF course pOygamy exists, but the
lower classes usually satisfied with one
wife at time. Divorce is easy, CON
slautly practsed and attended with disgrace.
has simply to say three times in succession 10 his
wife, "yOu divorced" and both reirce. There Il
law, too. in Persia, which allows woman to marry for
any stated period from one up to ninety years.
The stables form very important part or every
Persian establishment. Horses excellent and not
dear. Few own less than six and many hundred
animals. They are. rnle, spirited and intelligent.
far gentle ard less vicious than American
hOrac OF the OF Persia is evident that England
her crushed by Russia some seem to fear,
when such act would endlnger the safety VI heT In
dian sessions