The St. Johns herald., 1890-04-24
ExTRAvkeANT FELLOWS.
An American Newspaper szan Tells EoT.
 au In,,iad Esiah Lives.

An American Newspaper sEan Tells Eow
 au In,,iad Rsjah Lives.
 r There is in F adostan . territory nearly one-fftli the sizo Of tbe United States, and containing a population of more than 56, O0o,O01, which is gov erned by rajahs. Thee raiahs have power of life and death. They have revenues Of their own, levy taxation as they please and organize tle;r people and armies on different ba5ii from the English portions Of India. They are subject, in certain sense, to the English, and most Of (kem have English officers connected with tieir establishments. They are feGdatory states to England, and England does not allow them to make war upon each other, nor car they have any re- lations with foreign states. If Q raiah misgoverns his people or oppresse5 them, the Viceroy of India reprcves him, and if he does not come to time, secures his removal These states, however. have none of the new GUS toms CT English India Few for eigners visit them, and the pcO- pie are substantially the same as they were years agO-before the railroad and the English desir2 for business came in to gr.lI them up in the mortar of modern civ ilization. One-third of the whole ter. ritory of India is possessed by such raiahs, and their subjects make up one-ffth of the inhabitants. Their united armies amount to 301,000 men, and their gross yearly revenues are about $8o, ,0O0,O eco. These rajah5 1.-Two as erandly as did the Kings of Northern India in the past, and the English mcr- chants of India cater largely to their wants. Here, at Jeypore, the rajah's palace covers a great area, and the palace garden, with it's flowing rivers of water, formed by fountains spurtinS out of stone bed, would be largo enough for a farm. 1 was shown through court after court of marble and taken through room after room furnished with rich Persian carpets and with satin-covered chairs and di. vans Of European make. In one palace there was an immense billiard room, and in this and the room adjoining the skins of tigers and lcopa~Gs were scat tered about by the hundred. They lay in great piles on the floors. They wero hung on the walls, and some of the divans were upholstered with them. went through room after room filed with such skins, and was told that the beasts were all killed by the rajah, who is very fond of tiger-hunting, and who is an excellent shot.
 was also shown the outside of the palace containing the harem, and tho arrangements for keeping it cool struck me as rather peculiar. Outside of the main hall, and running along one length Of the palace, was 8 series of great fanning-nills not unlike those used by the American farmer. These were turned by half-naked men, and they thus kept Jumping up draught5 into the rooms beyond.
 
 I visited the rajah's stables, and . took a look at his horses. There was | Q court for exercise which covered, I | judged, something like ten acres, end ! around this was built an arcade Of | stalls roofed over with a thick, heavy roof to keep off the sun. Thoro was about half-mile of these stalls, . and each of them was occupied by Q fine blooded steed. There were horses from Arabia, from Europe, America i and India, and the tying of each was different from any thing Ihad ever seen. There was a strap from their haters, which was fastened to rings just above their heads, and each of their fore feet had separate rope which was stretched out toward the four corners in front and behind them and tied, at distance of perhaps six feet away, to a post, The ropes were loose enough to permit them to move their legs up and down, but they could not kick nor stand on their hind legs.-Frank G, Carpenter, in Louis vile Courier-Journal.
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