New variation of pyramids

Englishman’s Overland Mail, Saturday 13 July 1889

The station of Midnapur itself is a very pleasant and cheerful place, the residents being exceedingly hospitable. Owing to its high elevation the place gets every breeze that blows in the rains, and has a singularly pleasant climate. The mean temperature tor the year is about 80 F. The chief institution of Midnapur is its Club, which has a pukka tennis court, library, and billiard room. Here all the station folks meet of an evening, which soon passes in the manifold amusements of tennis, music and billiards. Snookers, the new variation of pyramids, is not unknown to the crack cueists of the station. A new piano has lately been provided by the Honorary Secretary, to whose good management is due the present prosperous condition of the Club. It is a pity that the station Racquet Court has been allowed to fail into disrepair. As Racquet Courts are the best means of affording exercise to officials weary with work and fagged with the climate, a big Court always seems to me an essential feature in an Indian mofussil station.