Daily globe., 1881-06-05
An Old Norwegian Town.


An Old Norwegian Town.
Stavanger is one of the most ancient
towns in Norway. 1t looks as if it
were one of the most ancient in the
world it's very brightness, with it's
faded red houses, open windows, and
rugged pavements, being like the color
and smile one sees sometimes on q
cheerful, wrinkled old face. The
houses are packed close together, 60
ing uphill as hard as they can; roofs
red tiled, gable ends red tiled also,
which gives droll eyebrow effect to
the ends of the houses, and helps won
derfully to show off pretty faces just
beneath them, looking out at the win
dowS. All the windows open in the
middle, outward, like shutters, and it
would not be much risk to say that
there is not q wind0w-sili in all STAY
anger without flowers. Certainly, we
did not see one in three hours ram
BILE. From an old Watch-tower, which
stands ON the top of the first sharp
hill above the harbor, is sweeping
Oflioek, seaward and coastward, to
north and south long promontories,
green and curving, with low, red
roofs here and there, shot up into re-
lief by the sharp contrast of color
bays Of blue water breaking in be-
tween; distant ranges Of mountains
glittering white; thousands of islands
ia sight at once. Stavanger's approach
strikes Norway's keynote with a bold
hand, and old Norway and new Nor
way meet in Stavanger's market-place.
An old cathedral, the oldest but one
in the country, looks down little
inner harbor, where lie sloops, loaded
with gay pottery, of shapes and pat
terms copied from the latest patterns
out in StaffOrdshire. These are made
by peasants many miles away, on the
shores Of the fjords; bowls, jars,
flower-pots, jugs and plates, brown,
cream -colored, red and white; paint
ed with flowers and decorated with
Grecian and Etruscan patters in SIM
pie lines. The sloop-decks are piled
high with them-a gay show, and an
odd enough freight to be at sea in a
storm. The sailors head bob up and
down among the pots and pans, and
the salesman sits fat on the deck, lost
from view, until a purchaser appears
on the scene. Miraculously cheap
Oriental steamers. He would watch
the guests retire, and go around ''heel
taping every dish as dry as any SER
want. The seed of the cotton tree is
the parrots special weakness, and will
intoxicate it in the same manner as
alcohol does man. Dealers are said to
give parrots stimulant previous to
showing them to q customer. as it has
the effect Of making them loQuacious.
In opposition to a contrary notion,
parrots will, and often have been
known to breed in captivity in differ
ent parts of Europe. They lay three
Or four white eggs each time, and in
cubate several times a year, sitting
from twenty to twenty-five days, ac-
cording to the season. The most sue
cessful results appear to have been
attendant upon cases in which birds
have been provided with nesting
places suitable to their habits. In
one case a small barrel was procured,
and pierced toward a third of it's
height, with a hole about six inches
in diameter. In the bottom was placed
a quantity of sawdust three inches in
thickness. On this the female laid
her eggs and sat until they were
Matched. Recent works question the
fact that parrots breed in domestica-
tion. but there exist too many trust
worthy evidences to the contrary to
allow their denial to remain. indeed.
So long ago as 1888 a writer upon the
subject said: All experiments
which have been tried at Caen and
Paris on this interesting subject have
been attended with the most favora-
bic results.