Chambers's Pocket Miscellany
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217456081
Paperback|9780217456081
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: very efficient police, under the direction of the European magistrates of the district, now prevents these wholesale robberies; and it is only the petty depredations of professional thieves which are to be apprehended at the present time. The sale of spirituous liquors in the fair is prohibited under a heavy penalty: thus one fertile source of evil is cut off. No one is permitted to enter the place armed. AH offensive weapons are deposited with certain officials named Chaprassies, appointed by government to take charge of them; all have duplicate- tickets, one of which is given to the owner, who, producing it upon his departure, receives his property back. At one particular period it is upon record that 700,000 swords were thus placed in the care of the chaprassies. But the fair is now said to be on the decline. - Many people attribute this falling off to the belief now prevalent all over India, that the Christians are destined to spread their religion and customs throughout the land; an opinion which renders vast numbers rather lukewarm in their attachment to the fooleries of the Brahmins. THE MAN WHO KNEW EVERYBODY. Some few summers ago, I spent several weeks at a pretty little watering-place, in one of the southern counties of Scotland. The village, during the period of my stay, was filled with visitors of all classes and descriptions. Numbers of real or imaginary invalids from among the wealthier orders of society, were spending at the spot their usual term of country residence, while many of a humbler rank were seeking relief from true illness by the use of the medicinal springs in the neighbourhood. Amongst all these various residents, for the time being, a perfect equality reigned, and, indeed, this was in a measure inevitable, seeing that there was no alternative be...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217456081 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217456081 |
| Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 In |
| List Price | $21.42 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 286 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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