Omaha daily bee., 1885-10-13

with fine arts and precious things. Tho
library contains seventy thousand vol
umes.
Stockholm has many fine public and
private buildings, and still more are be-
ing built. One of the things that donot
understand is why these old cities in
Europe should grow so rapidly. | / notice
a great change in the past five years in
those that | visited then. London, for
instance, has improved more in proper
ton than any city | know of in America.
Antwerp, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Co.
penhagen are all very much improved.
Whole streets are being built up with
fine seven and eight-story buildings. In
this city | notice "A large number of fine
and eight seven-story buildings. The IA.
terial used Is brick and stone, while in the
country the houses are of wood, some.
thing rarely seen in other parts of Eu.
with their lot. They love their king,
their country, their homes, and upon the
whole enjoy life much more than we do
inAmeriCa. Life can be spent much
easier here. There is not that rush and
excitement in business, not that desire to
gain riches, not so much interfering
with other peoples business, not so much
gossip. In fact, take the whole Scandi-
navian country and they are the most
honest, sober and quiet people | ever
met. They are also very intelligent and
industrious, and it is rarely that you find
n well-to-do INT leaving his country. On
the contrary, l find many that have emf.
grated to America and have returned
better satisfied. We find but little or no
drunkenness, no fights, no rows, conse-
quently but little use for police and but
few soldiers. Law and order seems to
prevail, 1t is not an expensive country
to live in or travel in. We do find some
trouble in the interior with the language
in order to see the country well. We do
no night travelling, consequently we
stopped over night a Carlstadt, n beauti-
full little city of seven thousand inhab-
itants and two fine hotels. We selected
the best and they gave us the parlor bed
room, but not n word of English or Ger
man could they understand. So we re-
sorted to pantomimo, went into the
dining-room, walked around, helped
ourselves. Seeing others eating
beef stake and eggs, we indicated that
we would take the same and pretty soon
it came with bread and butter, and two
bottles of native ale, also the bill, two
kroncrs or fifty cents for two persons. |
thought that they made Il mistake, but in
the morning breakfast came and il was
the same. | held out II handful of money.
The servant picked out thecxact mount.
Our room was seventy-live cents but it
makes ones feel IL little queer to get into
a CITY of that size and not find any one to
converse with. The natives seem to look
upon us poor foreigners with pity. We
are sometimes stared at as though we
were curiosities TO them, Notwithstanding
we wear about the same style of dress,
yet there is a popularity about each
nationality that is impossible to throw off.
But enough for this time. fear | nave
written more now than will be read with
interest. Imay make some memoran-
da as we 60 on our journey and send
them back.
This Sunday, September 9th happens
to be Il rainy day, we are housed up,
reading II large mail received here, in
Guiding the BEES for one week, the latest
date being the 18th.
agree with you in your article on
manufacturers. IfOmaha ever expects
to be Il large city she must devise some
plan to induce manufacturers to come
there and locate. If necessary we must
spend some money to get them to come,
and now is the time to do it. The best
cities in Europe are backed up with
manufactures. / could cite hundreds of
cases had | time. hope you will keep
the matter stirred up and organize for
that express purpose, We leave here in
u few days for Finland aud expect by
next Sunday to be in st. Petersburg. Rus
STA, then Moscow and south to Turkey.
Truly yours,
q. w. LININGAR.