The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-06

they do when intoxicated Is TO kiss all the
pretty girls they meet on the street.
There are churchyards 600 years oldthat
have no tombstones. The people are ex-
ceedingly religious Every house has q
bible or book Of psalms. saw numbers
OF men and horseback loads Of good
things going into house one day, and
concluded Il must mean Q wedding,
Where Is the brideG" I asked. "Tfsnt
that" was answered, "the man has lost
his wife and they are holding the d,
FUNERAL JoL1Y1cAmoH."
These Publications are continued for
days. The neighbors flock in, express
their sympathy and invite the afflicted
TO drink. 0fcourse he was kept drunk
by them, and thought 1t funny way to
mourn.
AtlastI got to the Land Of the Mid
night Sun. ! watched 1t throughout the
first night, and remained there nearly
seven weeks. II bothered me to know
when 10 go to bed, my watch being out of
repair. l discovered the birds retired at
II p. NJ, and got upat 2 A. N. Still fnr-
Their north, and then mosquitoes! Talk
about your New Jersey specimens, pshaw!
Why,they we're so thick that you couldn't
See man three feet of. 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 having very thick walls. These
are kept up two or three days and then
they have no fire for week. Some Of
the farms have as many as forty-five
hou9es. There are houses for cheese, and
for butter, and this thing aud that thing
II don't know what all. Each farm has
two dwelling.houses, one for winter and
another for summer. Houses can be rent
ed for IS year. Carpenters wages are
torty-fvc cents q day, and yet they strike.
Everybody works. Each house has Its
own loom they weave cloth and make
their own garments. There are no
markets; nothing Is sold. Whoever has
more than he wants himself he gives to
whoever needsit. The people are healthy.
They do not have consumption. and you
never see an emaciated form. You never
see beggar either. II 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 the Cape, and the horses
and the cowsd and the reindeer live on
fish, eaten raw. Still nearer and the
cows have nothing but boiled weed TO
eat In degree sixiy,eight farm houses
are scarce, the travelling unpleasant, and
done on foot or by boat. In the sum
mer It is wet, and the muEquitoes leave
you no peace.
At length l reached seventy one de-
grees fifty minutes, the Cape, the north.
ern cad OF Europe. The coast OF NORWAY
is magnificent, It's hArbors lined with
steamboats,; It's mountains, high and grand,
are covered with glaciers; It's waters so
clear that the bottom OF the sea Is dis.
cernable. Sweden bears no comparison
to 1t. In going from the City Of Tonjin,
toward Sweden, don't sleep under the
skins they offer. Such fleas, and such
numbers Grog shops are one hundred
miles apart up there. They buy their
whisky BY the quantity, and keep drunk
"uLO ~ laoSs
coURTsHIP AND MARRIAGE !
are peculiar institutions. I saw one match
made. he met her at the gate, and poked
his fingers in her ribs, and said:
+" l want to get married, don't your
10, l don't know. Go away"
:" Yes you do; let's get married"
well, ask papa"
mo, never mind him, we'll get married
anyhow" s-ss -
And he went around telling everybody
be saw, "Im going to marry that girl.n /
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 whisky purchased.
Wedding Publications are INDUCED in q
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 mi"
1.-TWO cows and IS"
That's not enough"
"nThree cows and $40" sss. "A
20, you are rich, you must give me
more than that"
Five cows and $25 was the final offer,
which was accepted, and the ceremony
consumated. In'writing to lady you
40 not use the name, but address 1t 10 her
iather like this: John Jones' daughter"
and add the name OF the farm.
Many have the impression that Lapland
Is dark in the winter, but that Is an error,
The country Is Illuminated by Northern
lights every night WANTED TO see ma
Laps, and drive q reindeer. They can
60 fifty miles an hour for two hours daily.
The sledges are narrow, have an oscillat.
ing 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 tried
around your arm. After you get pitched
out, the reindeer stops when he Is tired Of
dragging you through the snow Some
times they bout.fa and buck You ont,
and not unfrequently perform that task
by kicking. Twas keeled out by q kick
and snatched along two hundred yardSat
the rate OF nearly amile q minute. There
were Laps ahead and Laps behind, In case
OF accident, and they came to the rescue
pretty often. ! learned the busipess In
Jour days, being tnmbled out the tifst day
one hundred and ten times; III second,
seventy the third, thirty; the ioifth len;
next Gay, no times; and thought that
was bully. Inc cold was iorG:tiSe do.