Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-11-25
Letter from the North of Europe.
[From the New York Observer.

July 81 told you how cheal
living is in Sweden. 1t is cheape.
in Norway. And the fare is fair
In Lillehammer-this pleasant vii
lage at the head of Lake Mjosen, ir
the midst of beautiful scenery
where fire is luxury in midsum
mer, and the windows of the cot
tages blossom with flowers, and the
streams laugh loudly as they tum.
bic along among the hills, where
the linen on the beds and the table
is as white as the snow of the long
Winters-here in Lillehammer
spent one day and two nights, and
my hotel bill for five meals, two
sleeps and three rides was three
dollars of our money. That is
cheap enough, am sure; for the
eating and sleeping and riding were
just as good as you would get at
Niagara Falls, where, 1 am told, the
prices are so high that the Falls ap-
pear low in comparison.
Early in the morning we returned
to the steamboat on the lake, to go
back to Christiania. A young wo-
man, a cripple, was brought in an
arm, chair by two men, and tender
ly placed on board. The care they
seemed to take of her was touching,
and her gentleness made me wish
that l had the Morse language at
command, that l might learn some
thing of life among the lowly and
the suffering in this part Of the
worle. But when there was moth
ing said, so that a foreign tongue
was not disturbing the scene, the
company around me in the saloon
of the steamboat looked for all the
world as would any company ofru-
raj people that are taken on board
at any landing up the Sound or the
Hudson on the morning of a sum
mer day,
At EidSuold we touched, and saw
the people launching an iron steam
er, for lake navigation, of course,
and it was new to me to see a YES
sci launched sjdeaoays. Perhaps it
is common. But the names of the
villages at which we made landings
are not common, and l will set
down a few which you may read to
yourself, but don't venture on pro-
nouncing them: Frengstuon, Bird,
Ringsager, Aeggehongen, Gjovig,
Nees, Hama, Gillund,
Fieldshong, Stiggersand; they are
easier than / thought before writing
them, and perhaps you will recall
harder words on our rivers and
roads.
At Christiania, large party of
Americans-and we were certainly
in the midst of them-spent the af-
ternoon in seeing the sights Of the
town, and riding about in the carl
oIes of the country. A cartole is
not carry all, for its capacity is to
hold one, and no more. A boy may
hang on behind to hold the little
horse when you stop, but you ride
alone and drive. Not much driv-
ing is required; you take your seat
in this low, uncovered, rafting,
concern, and away goes
5he rat Of a horse, tearing along like
mad; and as each person has to
nave a machine to himself, dozen
Of them make a long string of ve-
licles, which, dashing over the
stones, create something of SEN
'ation. Young ladies from Amer
ca are fond of this exciting exer-
Use. 1t is almost equal to horse
back riding. Some English ladies,
If title and wealth, are making the
our OF Norway this summer, with
10 attendants, travelling only in the
,ariole. The government makes
ii needful provisions for travellers
hat they may not be imposed up
IN by the post-keepers. Licensed
louses are planted along the high {
Ways at intervals ofabout ten miles, {
where the keeper is obliged to keep '
certain number of horses for hire, I
nd if all are out when a traveller {
ONES, he is required to get horses |
rom his neighbors. You buy your 8
cheap and miserable I
hing it is-hire a bit Of a horse, l
nd are of. At the first post house c
ou leave your horse, take another, i
aging the legal price for his use, r
nter your name in a book with
ny complaint you may have to
lake of the treatment you have re a
aived, which the Government In q
oector is to read when he comes a
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