The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-08-20
A Sketch of Bombay Street Scenes.

A Sketch Of Bombay Street Scenes.
"Carleton," the lively correspondent Of
the Boston JOURNAL, is writing some in
teresting letters from India. We quote
below from one of them:
'Would that the farmers of New
England, who, about these days, are driv-
ing their teams atield, could see how the
Hindoos manage their oxen Think OF
pair of lean, lank kline, with horns
eighteen inches long sticking straight up
into the air, with great hump on the
back-oyer the shoulders a straight piece
of round wood-a limb Of tree six
inches in diameter for yoke, four pins,
each about ten inches long, driven through
the yoke to keep it in place on the necks
OF the animals; ropes instead of bows
not lashes TO the horns but tied round the
necks; cord he nostril of each OK,
with relns attached; tWo-wheeled cart,
with four seats, the driver sitting in front
bare-headed, barearmed, bare footed, bare
legged; barely dressed in every respect
-one bit OF rag about the loIns; three
Hindoo passengers as bare OF clothing
as himself, the oxen upon the trot or
canter, the dusky Jehu handling the reins
adroitiy, turning sharp corners, picking
his way quickly through the crowd as
easily as the hackmen of your city can
thread their course on Washington street.
The peninsula is wider here, and we
soon reach the suburbs where the Euro
peans and Parsees and rich native mer-
chants live. We find broad avenues, as
smooth as the sea beach, shaded by tropi-
cal trees Ia great variety. We pass state
ly palaces surrounded by the spacious
gardens. We look up the long gravelled
walks and behold flowers of every hue
eXotics Of the temperate zone mingled
with the flora Of the pics-oleandas
ma gnolias, laburnums, acacias, oranges aud
lemons, honeysuckle, verbenas, roses,
azalias, tiger illies-the entire flora Of our
greenhouses blooming in the open air;
vines and creepers, clematis and jessamine
climbing the walls, over running summer
houses; trees wholly unlike those which
we are accustomed to see--no elms, no
naples, OF giant oaks, but the tall and
slender palm, the palmyra, the coaconut,
with thor green plumes gracefully moving
in the breeze; the banyana forest in itself,
sending its new trunks down into the
generous earth and spreading its branches
far and wide, throwing out its leaves,
making a delightful shade the Indian
rubber tree the teak, the fig and mango.
The Parsee, as far as in him lies, makes
his earthly home paradise His palace
is large and lofty. He has wide balls,
deep verandahs and passage-ways running
in all directions, SO that, let the breeze
come from the sea or the mountains, from
the north or south, it may sweep through
his halls. The Parsees are the Yankees
OF the East-the business men who know
the knack of making money. In another
letter l shall have something more to say
about them. They surpass the English
III the elegance of their residences. Get
ting beyond the palaces and villas we
come to the plains, reaching northward
land eastward, bounded in the dim dis
lance by the mountains.
In approaching the city from the sea,or
looking down upon it from the hotel, we
see few spires, towers and domes Of
churches temples or public buildings, but
long reach Of tiled roofs, wide streets,
-pen lots, patches Of green foliage, with
| but few objects toattract special attention.
4 took an early walk before the sun was
up this morning, and saw some queer
scenes in the streets The people were
lust rising-hundreds OF them from the
ground IN front of their shops-men,
women and children, where they had made
their beds for the night Some were still
lasleep, and | came near disturbing the
| slumbers Of a young man, as | turned
icorner, by falling headlong over him. 1t
tdotss not take hlndoo long to dress, es-
ipecially when his only garment is strip
/ cloth around the loins. The chlldren,llke
those in many American homes, were up
iprIght and early making music. |
noticed that they were not dressed quite
well enough to make their appearance at
/ a sunday school In "a country where the
father and mother make strip OF cloth
/ of the size OF u dIsh-wlper serve for fall
! ,Iress. it is not in the nature of things that
their offspring should appear in coat,
Jacket or pants, or crInolIne, and trails
like those which some young ladies OF
! Boston use for sweeping the streets.
these costumes of the maiden OF the West
Especially the ballroom dresses-have
llonger skirts and perhaps not quite so low
lin the neck, as the costumes worn by their
sisters Of India; but in the matter of jew
jeIry the dark featured ladies Of this coun-
TRY can beat all hollow.
Take look at this black haired
creature fondling little ebony imp, the
likeness of herself, in adoorway as we
pass a gold chain about her neck, gold
Ecbarms OF tine size of a ten-dollar gold
piece dangling from it, three silver brace
lets on each wrist, an sxaRlst Of alTss q