New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-28


costume. tia far more bagsy, loose aud hdeous
than the Bloomer, with the additional advantage Of
making all sgss and styles Of beauty equally repul.
live, while on the scoro ,f health and convenience
there is st le.s to be said asainst it, Do not stop
At half way measures, oh, fair reformes!
Itseems incredible that, in a pastoral country
Ike Norway, it should be almost impossible 10 pro-
cure sweet mill and good butter. The cattle are
Of good quality, there is no better grass iu the
world aud the only explanation Of the fact is to be
found the gene raj want Of cleanliness, especially
among the inhabitants Of the mountain dist.iots,
pbcb aIe devoted 10 pAsturage alone. Knowing
,bit ODe won}srs the lees to see no measures taken
for supply Of water, IN the richer, grain growing
valleys, where It is 30 easily prOcuraole. At Bio.
berg fOI instance there was q stream Of delicious
water 6oW'Dg down the bill, close beside the inn,
aud fcuf bored p'netrunks would have brought it
70 the very door, but, instead Of that the landady
whiIled Of to tie stream in her revolving dress 10
w~h the di'bss, or 10 bring us half pint t. wash
ourselves. We found wafer much more abundant
lart Winter in Swedish Lapland.
Leaving Bj6berg besmes, We drove rapidly down
HtmNdsl, erj lying the pure, delicious airs of the
upper field. The scerery wss bleak sad gray, aud
even the soft pencil Cf the morning auo failed 30 in
part any charms 10 it, except TIE nsmeless ascins-
ton of utter solitude and silence. Toe valley de-
seends so gradually that we lad driven two Nor,k
miles before the fir forests in lie bed began TO creep
up the mountain aides. During the second stsge,
We pss,ed the iemai ksbe peak Of Sasten, on the
opposite side of the vaey-tbe end or cape of a
lo6g, projecting ridge, Terminating in scsrped
cliff from the very summit of which fell cascade
from Il rec 10 four hundred feet in hight Where
tbs water came from, il was impossible TO guess,
unless there were large deposit Of snow just in
the rear; for the mountsins fell away behind
ssaten, and the jagged, cleft hesdland rose alone
above the valley. It Yves o strange and fantastic
feature Of khe landscape, and to me, new form in
the repertory Of mountain aspects.
We now drove through FIR woods balmy with
warm, resious odors, TO Ekre, where We had or
dered breakfast by Eorbsd. The morning air had
given US healthy appetite but our spirits sank
when the only person at the station stupid girl Of
twenty, dressed in the same buging, hideous sack,
informed us that nothing was to be had. After
some persuasion, she promised rs coffee, cheese and
bread, which came in due time, but with the best
will we found it impossible to eat anything. Phe
butter wa rather black than yellow, the cheese ss
detestable TO The taste ss to the SMELL the bread
made apparently of saw dust, with slight mixture
of oat bran, and she coffee muddy dregs with some
sour cream il cup, and sugar candy which ap-
peared 70 have been sucked and then dropped in
the ashes. The original color Of the girls hands
was barely 10 be distinguished through their coat
ing Of dirt, and oil of us, tough old travellers as We
are, sckened at the sight of her. verify believe
the poorer classes Of the Norwesisns are the Nth.
isst people in Europe. They are oven worse than
the Lapps for their habits Of life allow them 10 be
clean.
After passing Ekre, our view opened down the
valley over wild stretch Of wooded hills, TO the
blue rountain.fcids Of the HalliNdal which
crosses the Hemsedal almost at right angles, and
receives its tributary waters. The ferns Of the
mountains are here more gradual, and those grand
sweeps and breaks which constitute the peculiar
charm Of the scenery of the Bersenstifs are mes
with no longer. We had hot ride to the next
station, where we were obliged to wait nearly an
hour in tho kitchen, our forbud not having been
forwarded from the former station 80 soon as the
hw allowed rs to expect A strspphg boy Ct
eighteen acted 81 station master. His trowseIs
reached considerably above his shoulder blades,
leaving barely room for waistcoat, six inches
long, to be butteDed over his eollar-bsne. The
Characteristic costumes Of Norway are more quaint
and picturesque in the published illustrations toso
N he reality, particularly those Of Hal1ngial
NY postillion to THE station WIS q communicative
fellow, who gave me some MtonD"tiOn about tho
value Of labor. A hsrvesthand gets from one
maxi (2i cents) 10 one and half daily, with food
or i've marks without. Most work is paid BY the
Job strong lumbsrman may make two and a half
marks when the days are long, at Elk shiliiuss
IS cents) ties-a p}owmsn two marks. In the
Winter, the usual wages of laborers is two marks
week, with boMd. Sho.makers, tailors and other
mechanics average sbout the same daily. When
one considers the scarcity Of good food and the
hsh price Of all Injuries, especially tobacco and
brandy, II does not seem strange that the emgra
ton fever should be 80 prevalent. The Norwe saus
have two traits in common with lsrge class Of
Americsns-rsmpant patriotism and love of gain;
but they cannot go easily satisfy the LATER without
sacrificing the former.
From the village Of Col, with its dark, pretty
church, we descended steep of many hundred
feet into Halipgdal, whose broad stream f,si I'd
blue in the sunshine far below US. The mountains
were now wooded to their very SUBMITS and ever
The less sbrup. slopes ripe oats and barley fields
made yellow spots Of harvest among the dAri
forests. By this time, we were out Of smoking ma
terial, and stopped at the house Of landssadiars