The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-23

of the cobra is deadly, and | am told that
the snakes used, have in some cases not
had their fangs drawn. A iuggler was
killed a week ago in Benares by the bite
of cobra, which he was using in this way,
and they are the most terrible snakes
have ever seen. At another performance
of this same kind l was present with
party of four and we all decided to ascer-
tain. if we could, how this trick was done.
l stood upon on a chair and overlooked the
man as he snatched up the snakes, but l
could not see where they came from and
only know that he had them and that they
We're so big that he crowded them with
difficulty into little round basket the
size OF peck measure.
THEsB JUGGLERs ARE WONDERFUL SNAKE
CHAMBERS.
They make the snakes do as they please,
and the snakes they use are of the most
deadly kind. 1 was told by an Englishman
at Benares of an incident which happened
there a short time ago. A juggler was
performing snakes and HindOo standing
by said that the fangs of the snakes had
been drawn and that any man could do the
tricks that he was doing. The iuggler re-
piled that they were not. The HindOo pro
tested, and in spite of the warnings of the
juggler seized one of the snakes 1t was a
cobra and it sunk its fangs into his arm. A
uOuCuI ldUCT IIC Ildu W IuC SIOul'
saying he was poisoned, and in two hours
ne was dead. l am told that the cobra will
not bite unless he is angry and that 1t is
only when he is in this condition that his
mouth fills with venom. The iugglers rely
upon this fact and by petting the cobras
make them so docile that they can work
with them without great danger.
SAW TWO WOMEN JUGeLERs AT JEYPoRE.
They were bright, intelligent looking girls,
one of whom appeared almost old enough
to be the mother of the other. They did
many wonderful things, one of which was
mixing up sand in water and putting the
hand into the discolored fluid. they brought
handful of sand, which they filtered
through their fingers as dry as before it
went in. The youngest of these girls was
prehaps fifteen. She was tall, well-formed
and fine-looking. She had bracelets on
arms and on feet, and her eyes were as
beautiful as those of a gazelle. One of her
tricks was the lifting of a heavy chair by
her eye lids, the thought of which almost
makes my eyes sore. The chair was
heavy mahogany one, which belonged to
the room in which l was staying. She
tied two strong strings to the top this and
affixed the ends of these strings to her eyes
by little round metal cups, each about the
size of a nickel These fitted over the eye
balls and under the lids and she bent over
while they were so fastened. Raising her
self she pulled up the chair with these
strings, with
THE MUSCLES OF HER EYE-LIDs,
and carried it from one side of the room to
the other. 1t was horrible sight, and as
she took the metal cups from her eyes they
filed with water and she almost sank to the
floor. l told her the trick was disgusting
and that she ought never to try it again. |
Still, for this and the rest of the show
these girls were well satisfied with two ru-
pees of about seventy cents.
These women jugglers came from Jeypore |
and they are fair type of the girls OF
western India. l am surprised at the !
variety of races you find here in India and |
there are more people in Hindostan than !
in all Europe. The costumes of the women |
differ in different provinces and in the |
Andaman islands in the bay of Bengal, |
where the great prisons of the English are |
coated, the native women are
LAD IN FIG LEAVES AND A BUsTLE OF |
WICKER.
people have only names for common
gender, which are applicable to either sex
md they use noise like crying to express
or Joy. Some of the hill tribes
If India look very much like negroes, and
here are in India tribes which are little
more than savages. In central India only
seventeen years ago there was a tribe Of
about ten thousand whose women wore no
clothes. The sole covering of the females
consisted of few beads around the waist
with bunch of leaves tied before and be-
hind and they were clothed finally by the
order of the English government An Eng
fish officer gave strips of cotton to the
women and they put them on. Since then
many of them have gone back to their beads
and leaves. On the slopes of the Himaiayas
here are many curious tribes. Some of
5he tribes near Darieeling reckon a journey
1y the number of guilds of tobacco which
he chew upon the way, and
SOME OF THE MOST GORGEOUS SPECIMENS
If Hindoo iewelry Ihave seen 1 saw on the
women of the Himalayas. l remember one
pink who had fifty rupees strung
around her neck and whose limbs were
Oaded down with silver. She had gold
plates twice the diameter of a silver dollar
lpon her ears, and her mouth sas covered
ly a fat, gold nose ring Some of these
dimalaya tribes have one wife to four
men and polyandry is common. Here at
Bombay are the prettiest women of India.
They are the parSees. With delicate, olive
brown skins, they are tall and well-shaped,
nave beautiful eyes and fine, intellectual
aces. They dress in silks of the most
lelicate colors and the dress seems to con-
list of one large piece of silk, which is
wound around the waist and then carried
10 over the body and the top of the head so
hat the face looks out and thewhOle hangs
n beautiful drapery. Many Of them, 1
lOted, have
SILK STOCKINGS AND SLIPPERS TO MATCH
he color of their dresses, and they are the
brightest and prettiest women have seen.
The parsees are sun worShipers. There are
My about seventy thousand of them in
ndia, and fifty thousand of these are here
n Bombay. The men dress in long,
,reacher-lik clothes of black, with hats
haped like coal scuttles and they are very
inc looking. Their dress, when not in
business, is often of the whitest of linen
oats and shirts. They are the best bust
less men in the world. They own millions
# dollars worth of property here in Bonn
,ay AMI are largely interested in the trade
# India. They are more akin to the Chris
ians than the Hindoos in their methods of
living. They believe in spending their
money, dwell in good houses and drive
bout in fine carriages. They are chart
able as well as rich and some of the finest
f the public buildings of Bombay have
cen built by them. They are of Persian
escent and have temples in which burns I
he sacred fire of Zoroaster.
SPEAKING OF BOMBAY AND BUSINESS,
ne of the most prosperous institutions of
ne city IS its tramway managed by two
americans, who are, think, from Boston.
heir names are Clark and Kittridge and
ley have an excellent property. Bombay
now over million in population and .
lese street cars, on the same plan as those
America, are driven by turbaned Moham-