Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — Ourious Callings. [ARTICLE]

Ourious Callings.

In India all callings are hereditary; a baker’s son becomes a baker, and bls son after him, and so on from generation to generation. The census, however, reveals some more startling vocations than that of the maker of bread. The people of Allahabad especially are not ashamed of their professions. Thirty-five describe themselves as “men who beg with threats of violence;” 220 as “flatterers for gain;” twenty-five as “hereditary robbers;” 974 as “low blackguards;” twenty-nine as “howlers at funerals,” while as many as 0,372 publicly announce that they are “poets.” In the other*districts one finds, besides the ordinary professions, 11,000 tom-tom players, forty-five makers of crowns for idols, 145 ear cleaners, and —most curious of all “hereditary painters of horses with spots.” The census containing this interesting Information Is kept at the Sanskrit College at Benares.—London Mail.