Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-29

wife, and they are holding the funeral
jollifcation." These Publications are
continued for days.
At last I got to the Land of the Mid
night Sun. [ watched it throughout
the first night and remained there nearly
seven weeks. 1t bothered me to know
when to go to bed [ discovered the
birds retired at IL P. M. and got up
at 2 A. NJ, Some of the farms have as
many as forty houses. There are
houses for cheese, and for butter, and
this thing and that thing-I don't know
what all. Each farm has two dwelling
houses, one for winter and another for
summer. Houses can be rented for s.5
a year. Carpenters wages are As cents
day, and yet they strike. Everybody
works. There are no markets; nothing
is sold. Whoever has more than he
wants for himself he gives it to whoever
needs it. The people are healthy. They
do not have consumption, and you never
see an emaciated form. You never see
beggar either. If too poor to live they
are too proud to beg, and
NOT MEAN ENOUGH TO STEAL.
The subsistence is sour milk, coarse
bread, meat twice week, and fish.
At length l reached II degrees so
minutes, the cape, the northern end of
Europe. The coast of Norway is mag
nifcent, its harbors lined with steam
boats its mountains, high and grand,
are covered with glaciers its waters SO
clear that the bottom of the sea is dis
cernable. Sweden bears no comparison
to it. Grog shops are one hundred miles
apart. They buy whiskey by the guam
tity, and keep drunk while it lasts.
Courtship and marriage are peculiar
institutions [ saw one match made.
He met her at the gate and poked his
fingers in her ribs, and said:
81 want to get married. don't you ?"
"Oh, | don't know. Go away" .Yes
you do: let's get married. "Well, ask
papa" mo, never mind him, we'll
get married anyhow" And he went
around telling everybody he saw, "I'm
going to marry that girl
The preparations continued during
the three weeks required by law to have
the bans published in the churches.
Fishes were caught, stores for the feast
laid in, beer brewed, and whiskey pur-
chased. Wedding Publications are in
dulged in for week. This couple were
married. They went from the church
to the house, and the bridesmaids lock-
ed the bride in her ROOM The groom
KNOCKED AT THE DOOR,
'How much will you give to come in p
1.-TWO cows and So" That's not
enough Three cows and So" Oh,
you are rich You must give more than
that" Five COWS and S25 was the final
offer, which was accepted. In writing
to lady you do not use the name but
address it to her father like this; ..John
Jones daughter" and add the name Of
the farm
Many have the impression Lapland is
dark in the winter, but that is an error.
The country is Illuminated by northern
lights every night. | wanted to see the
Laps, and drive reindeer. They can
90 fifty miles an hour for two hours dai-
ly. The sledges are narrow, have an os-
cillating motion, and one unaccustomed
to them will tumble out in all directions.
You drive with one line only that
reaches from the animals horns, and is
tied around your arm. After you get
pitched out, the reindeer stops when he
is tired of dragging you through the
snow. Sometimes they
BOUT FACE AND BUCK YOU OUT,
and not unfrequently performed that
task by kicking. | was keeled out by a
kick and suatched along 200 yards al
the rate Of nearly mile minute. We
drove to an acquaintance who owned H..
900 reindeer. [ went into his tent, and
found men, women, dogs, and other ami
mails sleeping together, and found Sc
many feas there that took my bag ano
went out to sleep in snow bank. AL
the Christians read and write They
wear snow shoes ten feet long and foul
feet wide. and go sliding about in com
ical manner.
The Journey from New York to Chris
tiana can be made in twelve days.
wonder more tourists do not go there
The summers are warm, the winters art
cold. but charmingly healthy. The no
tells cannot be surpassed, and their char
ges are very moderate.
Stephens, who was Vice President o
the Southern Confederacy, boasted tina