The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1848-03-30

DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENT IN INDIA.
My house il called bungalow, which !
choose as being the most economical. A
bungalow n a matched cottage, with only
ono ground story. The A,ofs Of tho roo,ns
are not made Of wood, but Of ! sort Of &C.
ment whirh looks like stone. The house
stands IN the midst Of large field called a
compound, which belongs to me, and the
servants' dwellings arc scattered around
have flower and kitchsn garden, fowl
house aud place tor goats, kitchen, stable,
COW house, and bnnyan.tree. The path.
ways through the grass nro Of fine gravel
aud the hedges are composed almost entire
y OF slloes and cactuses, mixed with very
sweet smelling flower shrub, aud bamboo,
which IS most beautiful tree, resembling
very tall weeping. willow. The sensi.
tive plant grows wild about the compound,
and benrs very snnll pink flower rosemb.
ling that Of the red cloves. The ban
ynn-tsee is abundant here. Each branch
projects stalks downwards, which take roo,
in tho earth, and after few years Que tree
resembles cluster, mud covers large space
Of ground. have several aloes in my rar.
den which are just lowering. They hive
thrown up straight stalk about twenty
feet high. A large cactus is now in bloom.
Il Is about ten feet high, and each stem or
leaf is thicker round than my LEG. This
kind bears n very beautiful large white
1ower, which opens only at night. Ia my
kitchcn.garden are the mango, the plantaiu,
Indian corn. pineapple trees, and many
others. Carpets arc not used here, but the
iioors arc covered instead with Indian mat.
ting. IN each room Is punksh. which !
before described. We procure wstcr Cor
drinking from large tank or pond; and ~
wo cannot purchase meat, have provided
myself with thirty Ave ducks, sixtv fowls,
four goats, md three kids, which last arc
almost ready 10 cat; tho gents W shall
keep fnr their milk, Tho Judge made me
n present of beautiful fawn Of tho spot
ted deer which is becoming very Time. /
nm just going to join mutton club. Four
persons enter in,oa partnership, and ngrce
To keep small flock IL sheep; one Of which
is killed twice week, and then each part.
ncr IS provided with quarter Of mutton,
and ench in turn has the liver, heart and
head. A gentleman yesterday sent mo
four gnincn.fowls, md another has promis.
cd me six pigeons os Soon ~ have a place
to keep them in. have just begun to
make collection Of insects, snakes, but.
tcrf1ies, md moths, IT the most beautiful
kind. The chameleon ID very common,
and chnnges i.s color according to the tenn.
per it is in. have Que which il general.
~ 81 a brilliant green; hut if ito anger be
reused, II becomes covered with large black
spots, and when hungry, with white spots.
These nrc the only changes In its color |
have ms yet observed: hut have seen 9TH
crs yellow; others, again, black with yellow
spots. II il snid That eacll chameleon has
ten different variations of color. There il
to be seen here a light-brown lizard, called
Ithe b!o"d-sncker, which 10 conssn nslv srun-
ming about the walls in the rooms. When
ever VIC take up paper or book, We arc
sure TO find two or three cockroacl,es under
it-not such cockroachcs rs you see in Eng.
land, but great ones thrcc or four inches
long. Tive grasshoppers come into the
housc in numbers, mud grow 10 an uncom-
mon size. You may henr them chirruping
hnlf milo III. Tho nnts, Of which there
nre three sorte, are great nuisance. Ev-
cry muse swarms with them; and unless
The legs Of tabIes, &c. are kept constantly
standing Ia jars Of water, they attack the
dinner-clo,hs, and in fact everything they
cnn reach: let, there 10 very small red
nut, whose bite causes . very hard rcd
swelling, which continues very painful Cor
some days: I'd. great black ant, about the
size Of M English wasp, which bites bn.
does mt sting: Sd, the white ant, rather
larger than the common English ant, which
como in . swarm, aud in one night will dos.
troy whole shelf full Of hooks. You may
como down in tho morning and find your
books apparently all right, hut no sooner do
you touch them than they all csumhlo away
10 powder.-Aclond's Maasers asd Gus.
t0ms Of lmdia.
The QUAxBas AND TnK WAR.-A short,
pertinent, and truthful petition against tho
Mexican War, signed BY 5000 0uaksrs 70.
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