row Our OWN Connesronoent Calcutta, Aug. 12.
Gambling is Inherent in human nature, though in the vast m ie rans on conventional lines horse-racing " and cards. form, beweveey ease to, Hah other day in Calcutta when eleven! Marwaris were arrested on a charge of gambling on the prospects of rain ea, certain day. Consdering hat monsoon is at its height in Bengal at present, when rain is to be expected every" day; in lar quantities, this might seem rath a dull "pastime. The truth is, however, that, while the rain has fallen so heavily in various parts of the country as to cause serious floods, the Clerk of the Weather, in his allocation of the water supply at his command, appears to have overlooked Calcutta, for, comparatively speaking, the rainfall here has been remarkably) mi small this year.
The rain gamblers conducted their operations on business-like lines, for they kept books of their transactions and it is stated that a measure glass for measuring the rain water and 'a time-keeper for reading the length of time during which it rains were ized. The men, it is alleged, at the sight of a cloud in the sky, collected at a street corner, laying wagers amongst themselves and also indi others to bet on the prospects of the rain at a particular time of the day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.