The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-01

eight falImshorses are scarce, the uaVeihns
nnnjeasant, and done on foot or By; o0at. In !
Che summer II b wet, and the mosquitoes
leave you no peace. atzs,., -.
! AT length / reached seventy degrees
City minutes, the Cape, the northern ehd o.
Europe. The coast of Norway Is magnin -
cent. its harbors lined With steamboats, us
mountains, high and grand, are covered VIII
glaciers ! Its waters 80 clear that the ooIeoin
of:the sea is discernible. Sweden GEARS no
comparison to It. In going FROM the CITY Vi
ToDiiu. towards Sweden, don't sleep uhue1
the skins they offer. Such heas, ana suc9
numbersl Grog shops are one n1oais ~
miles apart up there. They buy .whiskey by
the .onantity and keep drunk while it lasts.
u,saa1 )gs--sAsD MARRIAGE
= eculiar institutions. saw enc match
made. BE met her at the gate, ana pokeu
his fingers in her ribs. and said:
~ want to get married, don't your!
so. don't know. Go away"
eyes you do; let's get married:
"Well, ask papa"
any how" . ~, So. - .::; ;ir;,,,d bo
saw. .tPm going to marry that girl:
The preparations continued oulMs ene
three weeks required by Ia" TO nave the Dans
published in the churches. fisnes meae
caught, stores for the feast iaio ID, geea
brewed, and whiskey purchased. eo9 9,,,;s
io,lifcations are INDUCED in week. inns
couDle were married. They went from the
church to the house, and the bridesmaids
locked the bride in her room- Inc sloon'
knocked at the door. sy
Chow much will you give to come IN :"
"Two COWS and 3d."
"That's not enough"
"Three COWS and Sl0:
40, you are rich, you must give me more
than that" o..
rive COWS and S25 was the final otter,
which was accepted, and the ceremony con.
sumated. In writing to lady you do not
nse the name, but address 1t to her father like
this. nJohn Jones's daughter" and ada the
name Of the farm.
MANY have the impression Lapland Is dark
J., tho vinter. butthat IS an error. The coun-
trv il illuminated by Northern lights every
night. / wanted to see the Laps, ana drFe
n reindeer. They can 60 fifty miles an hour
for two hours daily. The sledges are narrow,
have an oscllating motion, and one unaccus'
toned to them will tumble out in all dlrec-
lions. You drive with one line only-tnaI
reaches from the animals horns, and IS tlcu
around YOUR arm. After you get pltcheu ou.'
the reindeer stops when he is tired OF ul"s
oinp YOU through the snow. ooniet''net
ihev bout-face and buck you OUT allu no'
unfrcG1ently perform that task py klch,hs;
T was keeIed out by kick ana snalchea
o,or~ two hundred yards at the rate OF near,
t. q mile minute. There were Laps aneaa
and Iaps behind, in ease OF acclaenC, anu
tbov came TO the rescue pretty oitch.
, .n the business in four days, being
tnnhjed out the first day one hundred ana
ton times the second, seventy; the thlrd,
thirty; the fourth, ten; next day, no times
and I thought that was DULY. Inc coia
was forty-fye degrees below zero, yet uld
not suffer from it. The climate Is Dry ana
healthy. We drove to an acquaintance VINO
owned 1000 reindeer. went into ms ten!,
and found men, women, dogs, and other AMI
r,a1s sleening together and found so many
feas there that took my bag and went out
70 sleen in snow-bank. All the Christians
reod and write, school attendance being COM
nulsory, Their mode of locomotion is funny.
Thev wear snow-shoes ten feet long and four
feet wide, and go sliding about ina
coNlcAL MANNER.
The natiy-s live on reindeer meat and coli
fee. All the money gathered by selling the
smoked meat and skins OF their aDllDais Is
bartered for coffee, which they drink contin-
uo]lv. Their hair is flaxen, eyes blue, skin
exceedingly white, check bones high, and
faces very red from exposure to the cold.
They are intelligent and honest. left bag
of gold, $50, in house, and the woman
followed me thirty miles to bring it. l
offered her $40. which she Indignantly re-
fused in fact, she would accept no present,
so | kissed her. At first she was astonlshed
I kissed her again, and she got accustomed
70 il. A kiss was all / could give her that
cost nothing. / was i'll Lapand summer
and winter, in Norway and Sweden two
vcars. and have eight hundred photographs
of landscapes, glaciers and waterfalls, one
waterfall Loaf feet deep; saw seyenfy-tWo
in half.hours drive, many of them l,Oo0
feet.
A journey from New York to Christana
can be made in twelve days. wonder more
tourists do not 60 there. The summers are
warm, the winters are cold, but cbarmingly
healthy. The hotels cannot be surpassed,
ond their charges are moderate.
The subject of scandinavian emigration is
growing in interest. Many are already here,
and | hope to see the numbers increase
rapidly. They are law-abidng, God fear
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