South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-01-16

get asleep. The seats arc uncomfortable,
abou: six inches wide, straight in the back,
with narrow ridges to keep your head
straight, apd they never have ERE in the
churches, although the thermometer does
stand forty five degrees below freezing
point. Their Sunday lasts twenty four
hours, beginning at six Saturday evening.
! Sunday afternoons are devoted to dancing
The Scandinaviaus drink aud get drunk,
but they don't have the tremeus, nor quar-.
rel, nor fight. The worst they do when
intoxicated il to kiss ali the pretty girls
they meet on the street. There are church.
yards COO years old thst have no tomb
stones. The people are exceedingly relig-
i)us. Every house has bible or book of
psalms. / saw numbers Of men and horse.
back loads of good things going into hotse
one day, and concluded it must mean
Wedding. Where is the bride y asked.
"'Tisu't that" was answered, "the man
has lost his wife and they are holding the
FUNERAL JoLIFICATIoN."
! These joliicasions are continued for dave.
The neighbors Aock in, express their sym
pathy, aud invite the afflicted to drink Or
course he was kept drunk by them, and l
thought ii a funny way to mourn.
| At last | got to the Land Of the Mid.
night Sun. | watched il throughout the
frs; night, and remained there nearly Sc
ven weeks. |, bothered mo to know when
to 60 to bed, my watch being out Of repair.
| discovered the birds retired at Il p. VI :,
and GIT up at 2 A. NJ Still further
north, and ;heu mosquitoes Talk about
your New Jersey specimens, psbaw, Why,
! hos III H.
man three feet off | saw log houses one
hundred and fifty feet long some of them
seven hundred years old To heat them
wood fires are built in huge fire. places bav-
iOg very thick walls. These are kept up
two or three days md then they have no
/ fire for week Some of the forms have
as many as forty-ive houses. There are
houses for cheese, aud for butter. and this
thing and that thing-I don't know what
all. Each furm has two dwelling houses,
one for water aud another for summer
Houses can be rented for So year. Car
penters wages are forty-6se cents day,
and yet they strike Everybody works
E1ch house has its own loom they weave
cloth aud make their owu garments There
are no markets; nothing is sold. Who
ever has more than he wants himself he
gives to whoever needs il. The people are
healthy. They do not have consumption,
and you never see an emncated form. You
never see beggar either. If too poor to
live they are too proud to beg, and not
mean enough to steal. Their subsistence
is sour milk, coarse bread, meat twice q
week, and fish
Nearer yet to tho Cape, and the horses
and the cows and the reindeer live on fish,
eaten raw. Still nearer aud the cows have
nothing but boiled sea-weed to eat. In
degree sixty-eight farm houses are scarce,
the travelling unpleasant, and done on foot
or by boat In the summer il is wet,
and the mosquitoes leave you no peace.
At length reached seventy. one degrees
fifty minutes, the Cape, the northern end
Of Europe. The coast Of Norway is mag
niGcent, its harbors lined with steam boats ;
its mountains, high and grand, are covered
with glaciers its waters 80 clear that the
bottom Of the sea is observable. Sweden
bears no comparison to it. 10 going from
the City Of TonjiO, toward Sweden, don't
sleep under the skins they offer. Such
fieas, and such numbers Grog shops arc
one hundred miles apart up there They
buy their whiskey by the quantity, aud
keep drunk while il lasts.
CoURTsnIP AND MARRIAGE
arc peculiar institutions. l saw one match
made. ii met her at tho gate. and poked
his fingers in her ribs, and said
81 want to get married, don't you ?"
40, don, know. Go away"
eyes you do; let's got married."
DWELL, ask papa"
ono, never mind him, wen get married
anyhow"
Aud he went around telling everybody
he saw, 'Im going to marry that girl"
The preparations continued during the
three weeks required by law 70 have the
bans published in the churches. Fisher
we're caught, stores for the feast laid in,
beer brewed, and wbiskey purchased We'd
ding jolifications are INDUCED in n week.
This couple wero married. They wen.
from the church 10 the house, and the brides
maids locked the bride in her room. The
groom knocked at the door.
"How much viii you give TO come in p
1.-TWO COWS snd IS"
"Thnts not enough"
"fhreo COWS and 80"
40, you are rich, you must give me
more than that"
Five cows and S25 was the goal offer.
which was accepted, and the ceremony con.
summa'ed. To writing 70 lady you do not
use tho name, but address IL 70 her father
like tbis: "John Jones daughter" aud
add the name of the farm.
Many have the impression ths, Lapland
IS dark 10 tho winter, bu, thu, is an error.