The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-02-20
4 Sketch of Bombay--street Scenes,

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 Would that the farmers of New England, who, about these days, are driving their teams afeld. could see how the Hindoos manage their oxen Think of pair of lean. lank kline, with horns eighteen inches long stick ing straight mp into the air, with great hump on the back-over 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 l nec0s of the animals; ropes instead of bows | not lashed to the horns but tied round the | necks a cord in the nostril of each OK, with ! reins attached; . two-whecled cart, with | four seats, the driver sitting in front bare l headed. bare footed, bare armed. bare legged ! barely dressed in every respect-one bit of rag about bis loins; three nihdco passengers, ss bare of clothing as himself, the oxen upon the trOt or csnter and dusky Jehn handling the reins sdroitly, turning sharp corners, picking his way through the crowd as easily and quickly as the hackmen Of our city can thread their course on Washington street.
 The peninsnlar is wider here, and we soon reach the subarbs, where the Europeans and Parsees and rich native merchants live. We find broad avenues. as smooth as the sea beach, shaded by tropical trees in great variety We
 
 gardens. We look up the long gravcled walks and behold dowers of every hue-exot- ics of the temperate zone mingled with the flora of the tropics -oleandas, magnqlias, yer benas, roses. aSsiiss, ps;ss.=s, tiger-illies-- the entire flora of our greenhouses blooming in the open air wines and creepers. clemStis and lessamine climbing the walls, overrunnihg summer houses trees. wholly unlike those which we are accustomed to scc-no elms, no naples, origant oaks. but the taii and slender palm, the palmyra. the cocuanut with their green plgmes gracefully moving in the breez- es, the bauyan, forest in itseiL, sending it's new trunks down into the generous earth and spreading its branches far and wide, thick ly throwing out it's leaves, making delight fui shade; ;ac India rubber tree, the teak. the ag, the mango. The Parsce, as far as in him lies, makes bis earthly home Paradise. His palace Is large and lofty. He has wide halls, deep yerandas and passage ways running in all directions, SO that, let the breeze come ' from the sra or thc mountains, from the North or the South, IL may sweep through i his haiis. The PsEsees are the Yankees of ! the East-the business men who know the ! mack of making money. In another letter shall have something more to say about them. ! They surpass the English in the elegance of their residences. Getting beyond the palaces | and villas we come 70 the plains. reaching | noFthward and eastward, bounded in the dim | distance by mountains.
 In approaching the city from the sea, or looking down upon 1t from the hotel we see few spires, towers and lomes of churches. temples or public bIildirgs, but loag reach of tiled reaGs, wide streets, open Lots. patches of green foliage with but feR objects t0 At- { tract special attention.
 1 took an early walk before the sun was up ths morning and saw same queer scenes in the streets. The people were just rising hundreds of them from the ground in front of their shQps-men, women and children. where they had made their beds for the nigh |.
 Some were still asleep, and came near dis turbing the slumbeTs of young man as
 turned : eegner by falling over him. IL does i not take Hindoo long to dress, especially
 when his oniy garment is q strip of cloth
 around the loins. The children like those in
 many American homes, were up bright and
 early making mud pies. l noticed that they
 were not dressed quite well enough to make
 their appearances at a Sunday School. In the
 country where the father and mother make
 a strip of cloth the size of dish-wiper serve for fuii dress, 1t is not ia the nature c things that their oh.pring should appear in
 coat, jacket and pants, or crinoline, and traili
 like those which some young ladies of Bos.or
 use for sweeping the streets. The costume,
 Of the maidens of the West, especially tho
 ballroom dFosses, have longer skirts, and ar, perhaps not qnite SO lose in the neck as tho , costumes worn by their sisters in India. but , in the matter of jewelry the dark featured ladies of this country can beat them all hol } low.
 Take look at this black haired creatur.
 foadling little ebony imp, the likeness Q
 herself in doorway as we pass, a gold chair about her neck, gold charms Of the srze of | ten dollar gold piece dangling from it. thre, ] silver bracelets on each wrist, an armlet O silver on each arm above the elbow, 90 man, !, rings on her fingers that you cannot coun
 them, anklets, huge and massive, upor eaci
 ankle, tottts Of the sauic metal on hsr grca toes six gold rings with little beIls atiacbee in each car; gold brooch with a long nj, . thrust through the left nosfrill Can any j. ! maiden in America exhibit SO much iewelrv
 See how the fond mother has layished be
 fortune, regardless Of expense, upon the day { ling in her arIns-ripgs on its toes, on its an g kies, silver chain clasping each of its club {, by legs above the knee, larger chain of elab c orate workmanship girding the loins, witl
 charms and little silver b@!s attached ring
 on its fingers, bracelets on its arms, anOthc c chain ciasping the neck, rings in it's ear.. } jewel in iis posel Quite display for q yount . girl who has not got round to her first birth !, day anniversary.
 - The question iS solved as to rhat become !. Of the silver. India absorbs it. A love Q jewelry is characteristic of men as well n F women in India The men wear bracelet |. and ncserings. The population of the coun
 try $ nearly one hundred and ninety millions ( and 1t may be set down that each indiyidua ba4 nf4on an cwara,a C,,,a ,.