San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-15

ana ana passes the remarkable Old church of
Gamle Stadln, an edifice boasting eight CEN
turtles of antiquity, and with carved and
gilded tryptich Of such remarkable beauty
and delicacy that 50 600 has been offered and
refused by the parish for the unique sreci-
men of Flemish carving. l was present at
the monthly communion Of the parish, and
was much struck with the solemn demeanor
of the peasants, as man and wife walked TO
the altar together and received the com
nunion in both kinds in their mouth, but
without being allowed TO touch the elements
or handle the chalice. The officiating priest
took the eastward position, and during the
communion of the people the "Agnus Dein
was sung by choir in the gallery. At Cell
wara there is an old but not very interesting
church, now abandoned, as it is full Of hui
man remains, and new and modern build
ing stands about $50 yards from the railway
station.
The road to this wonderful center of enter
prise and activity traverses a district which
wonderfully reminds the traveller of the
country between Port Arthur and Winnipeg,
on the Canadian Pacific railway, but the
view from Gellwara itself Is much more in
teresting and mountainous than can be seen
on the Canadian side Of the Rocky noun
tains. The mountain itself from which the
railway draws its ore is 1000 feet above the
sea levei. and the view from its summit dis
closes a series Of hills and mountains stretch
ing to the Norwegian frontier, towards which
the track is being steadily laid A member
of the house Of Cecil is one of the railway
directors, and Messrs. Wilkinson g. Jarvis,
Of Victor ia street, Westminster, are the
energetic contractors to whose pluck and de-
termination, amid many discouragements of
local disputsnts, this great work of crossing
the Attic Circle by railway has been accom-
plished. When the line has been completed
to Ofoten it Will be the recognized tourist
route by which tourists, who have assembled
the North Cape, can cross the Norwegian
mountain ranges and return southwark to
Stockholm by rail or water from L1lea,
where the Swedish and Norwegian railway
now terminates, but from which there viii
be a connection with the Sundsvall route to
Stockholm at Boden.
The mind Of local editors and local press
men is proverbially small, and it is amusing
to read in the Norbotten journal Of the ''pa-
trioticn attempts to save Sweden from the
grasp of foreign intruders, but it is only
through English capital and British enter
prise that the great forests of the north of
Sweden have been utilized for the European
market, and that this remarkable railway
communication has been begun, continued,
and will ere long, l believe, be successfully
ended, not very far removed from the most
northern town in the world One remarkable
fact learnt at a lode where eight Scotch
miners were at work, that at the same price
for piece work as paid to the Swedes, they
had secured seven kroners per diem a..
717d.b, and the Swedes never got beyond
three Tho most curious REMARKS are made
by the Laps, who come down TO see the en-
gines draw In their loads Of coal and draw
out Their loads Of ora It's this power from
heavenP is the first query Of the Lapp be-
holder as he sees his reindeer home at last IN
vaded.-Cor. London Post