Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-02-05

ginning at six on Saturday eve
ming. Sunday afternoons are
devoted to dancing. The Scan
dinavians drink and get drunk,
but they don't have the tremens,
nor quarrel, nor fight, The
worst they do, when intoxica-
ted, is to
KISS ALL THE GIRLS THEY MEET
OH the street. There are church
yards six hundred years old that
have no tombstones. The peO-
pie are exceedingly religious. -
Every house has a Bible Or book
Of Psalms. | saw numbers Of
men and horseback loads Of good
things going into a house one
day, and concIudcditmust mean
a wedding. "Where is the
blide?' 1 asked. 'Tisn't
that, was the answer; "tho
man has lost his wife, and they
are holding the funeral jolIili-
cation % These Qualifications
are continued for days.
AT last / got to the Land Of
Midnight sun i 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 Z. NJ,
and got up at 2 A, NJ. Some
of the farms have as many as
forty-five houses. There are
houses for cheese, and for but
ter, and this thing and that thing
Il don't know what all. Each
farm has two dwelling houses,
one for winter and another for
summer. Houses can be rented
for So a year. Carpenters wa
ge5 are 45 cents "a day, ard yet
they never strike. Everybody
works. There are no markets;
nothing sold Whoever has more
than he wants for himself he gives
il TO whoever needs it. The p ople
are healthy. They do not have
.consamp ptitn, and you rever see
begger s.tn,r. If too poor to
live they are to- proud to beg, and
NoTMEAN ENOUGH TO STEAL.
The subsistence is sour mix, coarse
bread. meat twice Il weeL., ana
fish. i. -'..-'+
At length / reached 7I0 so, the
cape, the northern end Of Europe. !
The coast of Norway is magniG-
cent, its harbors lined with steam.
boats; its mountains, high and
grand, are covered with glaciers;
its waters so clear that the bot
tom Of the sea is discernible.-
Sweden bears no comparison to
it. Grog shops are one hun
dred miles apart. They buy
whisky by the quantity, and
keep drunk while it lasts.-
Courtship and marriage are pc
culiar institutions. | saw one
match made. He met her at the
gate and pokcd his fingers in
her ribs, and said:
II want to get married, don't
you?" "Oh, | don't know. Go
eyes, you do; let's
get married" "WelI, ask papa"
mo, never mind him, we'll get
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 pub
lished in the churches. Fishes
were caught, stores for the feast
laid in, beer brewed, and whis-
Ky purchased. Wedding jolli-
fications are indulged in for a
week. This couple were mar
ried. They went from the church
to the house, and the brides
maids locked the bride in her
room. The groom
KNOCKED AT THE DOOR.
"How much will you give
to come IMP" 1.-TWO COWS and
S." "That's not enough" y
"Three COWS and $10." ooh,
you are rich; you must give
more than that" Five COWS
and $25 was the final offer,
which was accepted. In writ
ing to lady you do not use the
name but address it to her faith
erlike this; John Jopes's daugh-
ter" and add the name OF the
farm.
Many have the impression
LapIand is dark in the winter,
but that is an error. The cOun-
try is illuminated by northern
lights every night. | wanted
to see the Laps, and drive a
reindeer. They can go fifty
miles an hour for two hours dali
". The slcds are narrow, have