Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-02-21
AN INDIAN SYBARITE.
Life OF tho King Of Oudh Amid the Sur
roundlngs of Eden.

rOundings OF Eden.
The death of the last King Of 0udh
deprives Calcutta of a picturesque aud
almost legendary parsonage, To the
visitor the red and blue roof Of his pal.
ace, the gardens. stocked with wild
beasts and brilliant birds, his innums.
able guards and attendants and The
tens of thousands of pigeons that were
always wheeling above the grounds
seemed to embody the fantastic life Of
native India. The men guardingth the
doors were all his own sepoys from
Cawnpore, and once you had an order
to penetrate the charmed circle you
passed through beautiful succession
of groves and parterres and miniature
grassplots and pleasant terraces bis
menagerie fell away of late but some
years back it almost rivaled the famO.
collection in the London Zoo. In one
large space there were buiialoes' sOas
and deer and ostriches and other gre&
birds. A tank something like one huh
dred and fifty yards square was Gov
cred with storks and pelicans ana
swans, and had ample well-woodea
rambling grounds around It. l .l'
smaller birds were sheltered IN iOlV
ayiaries. The lions and tigers and
wolves and other feroclous alilnAs
were, of course, Gagged, but Gagged 's''
comfortably. H.,
In another garden building 'n'
looked like magnificent ant nll' wa
fixed in the center of large squs''
we'll, and was carefully surrounusu
with water. Here the snakes ' ss,s
segregated, and five hundred ..t Of ,s 'l'ia
lived in the narrow holes with wnl ~
the strange building was ar'ln',a ".
honeycombed. 1t used to be one VI .al
great sights of the day to see 'n sal, ,sl
yith frogs. But his pigeons iO'm ne'
the great feature Of the Kings W.
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lection. .hoth.
"One who knew him" writes Una, I \.
led a kingly life to the end 'nOuSS ,al.
had not more than seven thousand ' s"l
ieots to govern: "He held court .; aai
received regal honors' crea's .,,, a. an
mobiles according to his caprl'o IMAM
+, ayeled over his grounds in a e ,lalpsn
occupying at different times m' UNA
country seats, like other hl ~, animal
and i his fishes Is being fed, at another y
rams and cocks, and quails' v','. 4
brought up to fight before re him. ''.,,i =
had. we are IRE told, a prevailing p ,ssrs
for order and cleanliness ne =. p ou
i've times a day, though he al, i1g nil il
one meal, but from morning ". teI 4
he chewed pan sopart anu 'in'N
hookah. Times of India.
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converses and medi'ates mp, Nv co
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