Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-07-03

thirty horses, and hundreds of sheep and
swine"
OF another Norwegian farm visited by Mr.
/ Brace, he saws
The pastor produced some cigars, and we
went out for a walk. Beside other places he
took me to Bondcr's farm near by. found
/ here the usual divisions Of houses for each
/ separate department-one for a carpenters
shop, one for grist-mill, house, ma
chnery. smithery, etc, etc.-every trade be-
| ing carried on upon the farm They were
/ building one now house, and on inquiring.
| learned that it was for the father He was
about, as is customary, to give up the farm to
( his son and be supported henceiorth by him,
/ though still himself in full strength. I talk
ed with the old man about his farm. He said
they would be very glad of some of the new
American machines he had heard of the
horse-rake. The reaper would not do well
here, owing to their hilly and stony ground
| He had one machine, which he had invented
/ himself for sitting, which he showed me-
] They had the usual threshing machine, turn
/ ed by cattle or horses. He said they had
sent twcnt five men from his gaard alone, TO
America, who were doing well
"'Would you go = said my friend.
" Not to be king said he, if they had
one.
"We went into his house, log cabin of
I two stories. II was kept with perfect neat
ness. There were no carpets but bare boards
throughout, yet he had some articles of fur
niture quite rich and handsome The sprink-
ling of the juniper-twigs on the floor instead
/ OF sand, struck me at once, 1t is an old Morse
/ custom appearing in the earliest sagas.
| inquired about wages
/ They are much higher than they were former
/ ly; at present sixteen cents a day usually,
except in harvesting when they might be
sixty-three cents. A servant maid had six
teen dollars year, double the wages of few
years ago.
At Hammerfest, the most northerly town in
Europe, in lat. 70d 40m., Mr. Brace men
/ tions having seen species of provender for
cows and horses rather novel to those in
warmer attitudes, but it will be remembered
by those of your readers who read the notice
of Lieut. Habershams "My Last Cruise. not
long since published in the Country Gentle
man, that similar food is given to those ami
mails in winter, in Siberia In walking
about the town, says Mr.. Brace. lone of us
/ said to boy cutting cod for sailing, What
/ do you do with the back bones and heads ?
Feed the cattle, sir, was the answer; and
it is true. Even the horses here must some
times eat refuse fish and bones"
Like many travellers, the author of "The
Norsefolk' seems to be good deal of gas
tronome, and rarely fails to give us some
inkling of the good things with which his
palate tickled At Tromsoe, in Norway,
j he appears to have Jared luxuriously, and
J thus discourses " The crowning dish of
| Scandinavia, is also in use here, the rog rod
eaten with cream and sugar. May America
soon be blessed with that delicious mixture
/ for refreshing summer dish" But that A.
merica may not be ignorant of what this
! blessing is, Mr.. Brace gives it in a note, as
! follows
We append the receipt: Take three and
a half lbs of juice of currants and three quarts
of wster and sugar dd lib, with a favoring of
almonds or cinnamon IAN ounce or an ounce
and half Boil this mixture, and when it
begins to boil add one and a quarter pounds
! OF ground rice or a pound of sago. Let it
4 boil a quarter of an hour, and stir it often;
afterwards it is to be poured into moulds or
/ tea-cups, which have been wet with cold wa
ter, and left to cool. Then it should be turn
ed out and eaten with cream and sugar. Any
other juice of acid fruit will do as we'll"
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THE universal YANKEE.-When Com
modore Perry visited the Bonin Islands, some
/ five hundred miles due south of Jeddo, in the
/ summer of 1858, there were some two dozen
| inhabitants there, several of whom were full
blooded Yankees. 1t is in record in my rem
iniscences that the most amusing person that
| met with there was tall and wiry Vermont
er, who had run away from a whale ship
some months before. and was then doing
chores about the settlement for livelihood.
He seemed to be the busiest man on the ISL
and, and yet he seemed to accomplish little
or nothing. He was decidedly chdrdcter.-
He had visited every islet of the group, knew
the exact distance from one to the other, and
how long it would take to paddle entirely a.
round each one of them in a canoe. He had
hunted wild goats upon Stapleton, wild fowls
upon Peel and wild hogs upon Buckland.-
He had killed wild boar upon the summit
of the highest peak, and brought it down
steep which mountain deer could scarcely
climb. He had hunted turtles on the reefs at
seasons, and frequently caught them in pairs.
At others he had in a single night turned
dozen of the largest kind, when they were
surprised upon the sand beach while on their
way up from the beach to deposite their eggs
in the sand He has seen the turtles in their
nests described the slow and cautious man
ner in which they crawled up TO the edge of
the wood dug holes and laid their eggs, and
then covered them up so carefully that their
nests could not be found even by the expert
onced turtle hunter, if it were not for their
tracks to and from the sea. He described the
Bonin law of turtling-irrevooable as that of
the Medes and Persians how he who first
visited a beach after sunset was entitled to all
the turtles which visit the beach during the
night how turtle becomes the property of
its captor so soon as it is turned over upon us
back and he declared that the man who dis
Y r Al.
highest offences known to the islands.
The BONN Islands were perfectly desolate
until settled by the Yankees, and the head
man in 1858 was native of Salem, Mass,
who had resided there for more than quar-
ter of century.-N. Y. journal Of Com
merce.
RECEIPT FOR PRosPERIrY.--A gloomy
correspondent who signs himself "Mer-