Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-09

retired at i P. NJ, and got up at 2 A. NJ
Some of the farms have as many as for.
ty,fve houses. There are houses 70,
cheese, and for butter, aud this thing and
that tbing-I don't know what all. Each
farm has two dwelling houses, one fol-
winter and another for summer. Houses
can be rented fur S5 year. Carpen.
ter's wages are 10 cents a day, and yet
they strike. Everybody works. There
are no markets; nothing is sold. Who.
ever 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 ema.
ciated form. You never see a 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 / reached II degrees, so
minutes, the cape, the northern end of
Europe. The coast of Norway is mag
ni6cent, 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
cernible. 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 in
stitutions. | 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" No, 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
we're caught, stores for the feast laid in,
beer brewed, and whiskey purchased.
Wedding Publications are INDUCED in
for week. This couple were married.
They went from the church to the house,
and the bridesmaids locked the bride in
her room. The groom
KNOCKED AT THE DOOR.
How much will you give to come
in 2" "Two cows and S." That's
not enough" "Three COWS and S10."
Oh, you are rich; you must give me
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
his: John Jones daughter" and add
he name of the farm.
Many have the impression Lapland is
lark 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
% fifty miles an hour for two hours dali
y. The sledges are narrow, have an os-
lllating motion, and one unaccustomed
o them will tumble out in all directions.
you drive with one line only; that
caches from the animals horns, and is
led around your arm. After you get
itched out the reindeer stops when he
J tired of dragging you through the
now. Sometimes they
BOUT FACE AND BUCK you OUT,
nd not unfrequently performed that task
y kicking. | was keeled out by kick
nd snatched along 200 yards at the
ate of nearly a mile minute. We
rove to an acquaintance who owned
900 reindeer. | went into his tent, and
ound men, women, dogs, and other ami
lals sleeping together, and | found so
lany feas there that took my bag and
1ent out to sleep in snow bank All
be Christians read and write. They
'ear snow shoes ten feet long and four
,et wide and go sliding about in CON-
al manner.
The journey from New York to Chris
ana can be made in twelve days. /
'onder more tourists do not go there.
he summers are warm, the winters are
old, but charmingly healthy. The ho-
lis can not be surpassed, and their char
es are very moderate.
THE DISEASE OF DICK YATEs.-Of
ne death of the late Richard Yates. the
'hicago Times says: Poor Dick Yates
ent down into the grave impelled by a
ltality that was unyielding. His diff
nlty was not one of his own seeking. 4
came to him by transmission, and he
as no more responsible for it than is
le child born with the faint of scrofu-
lr, or the person who finds his system
ervaded with poison communicated by
,e bite of rabid dog. He was an in
briate from conception he was doomed