Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-17
SIGHTS IN BOMBAY.

Exorbitant Prices Demanded by the
 Trades-Pco2le of Indi::.
 Here is an example of the prices asked in Bombay. \ friend of mine once took a watch into one of these shops and asked what was wrong with it.
 ''Oh, nothing much," said the assist ant; it wants taking to pieces and set ting to rights and regulating. and wa may keep it two or three days" He was going to leave it without another word, when it was suggested that he might as well ask how much that ia miliar opera ton would cost. He did, and was told to.
 The next shop asked e los. 'Iou must remember. sir. that we dO not come out to India for change of air. re- marked the shopman, severely In the end he discovered Farsi wEo asked half a sovereign for the work and did it well.
 The ParSis are numerically weak, numbering not more than H0,000 in all India: but they are enormously wealthy and influential, and Bombay owes much of her prosperity to them.
 One of the great sights i, the native town, and when tho travClc" has ceased 1 marveling at the color, the smells, the picturcsquencss the variety, the hustle and the extent Of <, he is most struct ' at the indifference of the inhabitants to l the distinction between road and path | way. Lads coming out of school. mcr- i chants leaving their shops, bodies of workmen streaming out of the factories, ! all walk in the middle of the road and l leave the pathways deserted. Suddenly carriage turns the corner l 1t a smart trot and plungcS straight into the middle of the chattCring strolers, who flee tcrror-strickcn to the right and left, with every manifestation of sur | prise and alarm. They behave, in fact, quite as if they had never seen such a thing happen before, instead of which they have probably escaped sudden leath in the same way two three times every evening for the past ter
 A LITTLE LEvITy.
 I suppose. Well, what's to be dono about it?" Son (meellly)-'That's for you to settle.'
 THERE was ono New York hackman the other day who failed to overcharge his customer, but he died on his box be- foro he got to his destination.
 IT is funny to hear two women talk ing to each other across fence as they are hanging out clothes, each with half dozen clothes-pins in her mouth.
 IAN umbrella is a very nice thing to have in the house when it rains," said Mir. Smith. "Ycs," answered his com panion, ''but why don't you get your house shingled?'
 ''YoU won't go to Heaven if you are such naughty boy, Michael!' ''Oh, well, one cant expect to go everywhere! went to the circus yesterday and to the pantomimc.the day before!'
 A BoARDER sent his cup to be filled for the fifth time. ''You must be very fond of coffee, MT. Brown," said the landlady, severely. "I am," said he, GOT l would not drink so much water to get a little"
 A FRENc1IMAN says that women have such an innate vanity for dress that if YOU wcre to tell one that she was to be hanged in the presence of twenty thou sand persons she would at once exclaim: "Grcat heavens! I've got nothing to wear.'
 DON'T waste your time, says tho Ma tfonal Car Builder, talking spitofuily to the station master when you find that you have missed tho train. Buy pint of peanuts and scatter the shells all l over tho station floor. That is about the only way in which you can get even l with tho cOmnanv.
 "A little three -yoar-old, in admiring her baby brother, exclaimed; He's got boiled head, like papa"