Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-04

The People Who Are to Make Music
for the Sacred FIenbant

The People Who Are to Make Music
for the Sacred Elephant.
People in Burmah get along very CON-
Portable wearing their tattooing and few
yards ofmuslin wound around themselves.
says the New York Times of the 31st ult.
The Burmese bandmen, who make music
for Barnum's sacred white elephant, were
landed from the City of Richmond yester-
day in the ulsters of civilization. They
all went to Madison Square Garden, di-
vested themselves of their European toy
gerry. and Frustrated themselves in their
native attire before Toung TalOung. Then
they huddled around the stove, set up to
keep the elephant warm, and talked about
the weather. The men had streamers of
green gauze, filled with gold spangles,
twisted around their heads to form tur-
bans, cloths about their loins, and fabrics
good deal like Providence prints thrown
over their shoulders and tied around their
waists to make gowns. The Burmese
were all the color of New Orleans mo-
lasses. The legs of the men were tattoOed
from the hips down to the knees, and to
keep their toes from being frost-bitten
they wore striped stockings and leather
pumps. Their hair was long, like wo-
mems, and cooled in knots on the tops of
their heads.
The name of every one was prefaced
with ''Moung," meaning ''Mister.'' Some
OF the last names they themselves could
not interpret. The names and the signifi-
cations, so far as they could be made out,
were: Myine, 20 THAN, Pc Tsah Hot J,
Shoay Koo Gold, Htoon Lin Bright \,
Kan Too. Kway Ngyoe Yellow, Hpo
Goung Head). There were two women,
whose names were given as Nah Kin
Miss Fry), the wife of Pc Thain, and
Nah Hmet Miss Ripe), the wife of Pc
Tsah. An 1S-mOnths baby engaged the at
tention of Miss Ripe. He was called
Ht0on Yone, and was as lively as a crick-
et Another older youngster bore the
name of Thit Woon. There was a Bur-
mese dwarf in the party, feet high and
30 years old, named MOung Bouk Mr..
Flea. He was tattooed in red. In his
own country he was a goldsmith. He
wore filigree smile which wrinkled his
face in delicate tracery extending in all
directions, and a pair of London trousers.
The trousers were the first he ever put on.
and he thought so much of them that he
made his Burmese toilet over them. Mr..
Hutchinson held up the baby in his hand
and said to the assembled mutitude
"Here is the embryo golden-tOed heir to
the sum-"
The baby fastened its fingers in r. f.
HamiltOn's hair and kicked in glee, while
Mr.. Flea's smile became more pronounced.
Miss Fry and Miss Ripe pulled cigars
which their liege lords had lighted for
them, and chatted together. The men are
to play in the great moral show, and the
women are to dance to their music.
Enough of the instruments were put to-
gether to make up respectable band, and
the elephant heard the first music of his
own country since he left London. He
nodded his head and switched his tail
grayely to express his appreciation. The
principal instrument was the kyee wine
brass ring). A double ring of cane held
10 brass plates. A man sat in the middle
of 1T and pounded on the plates with
sticks. Two others played buair and
pathways, species of fageOlets, third
yahgwin (smalI cymbal), and a fourth
pounded with his hands on drums. The
leader kept clapping split bamboo called
wah let khOat to mark time. The music
wasawild and weird and was rhythmic.
There were other Instruments which were
not put together yesterday, with no end
of gold emblems and apparatus. The
Burmese will appear in their fnery and
play and dance to-day.