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however, protected by the national
game law and cannot be killed In Nor
way, where the down of the female,
which she uses to line her nest, Is
gathered after the young are Matched
and the nest is abandoned. This
down industry brings in a very con-
siderable avenue to the northern dis
tricts of Finmarken. Partridges are
rare in Norway, but very plentiful in
southern Sweden. The season for
shooting game closes in the spring
and opens August oath. Each land
owner controls the right of shooting
or killing of game on his own proper
ty. This right can be leased, but not
permanently separated from the own
ership of the land. The lease can not
exceed a term of ten years and in
case of subletting, the consent Of the
land owner is necessary. Norway is a
hunters paradise, but aliens must
first Of all take a government license,
which costs 100 kroner, equal to about
S27.00, then the next thing is to buy
the privilege to shoot the game of the
land owner. The closing time for
fishing salmon and trout is generally
from August Goth to May LIST, in rivers
and streams.
The population of Norway is about
1920, 600, corresponding about to the
population of the state of Iowa; that
of Sweden 1000, 900, which corresponds
about to the number of people in
Pennsylvania. The increase in popu-
lation In Scandinavia is slow, owing
to the large emigration. The annual
increase of Norway is about 20, 900
and in Sweden about $4,000, which
respective numbers also emigrate
from each country annually. The
population per square mile in Norway
is about Is and in Sweden about 80.
The Scandinavian population is al
most exclusively of Gothic origin, ex-
cept the tribes OF Lapps and Fins, oc-
cupying the extreme northern dis
trictS Of the peninsula, who are OF the
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bones, low forehead, full lips, general
ly narrow eyes and blunt nose, black
eyes and hair and of %yellowish or red
dish complexion, not at all unlike
their distant brother, the American
Indian. The Lapps now number
about "a. 900 and Firms %, 200 in Nor
way and Sweden. Their languages.
are both Of Tivonian stock akin to
Hungarian and are said to have been
Identical some 1000 years ago.
The Firms are now by far the super
ior Of the two, both physically and
mentally. The Scandinavian gothic
race is of the Syran or Indo-Germanic
stock or at least akin and would seem
fore history has any record. The
marks Of the washings of water at
high attitudes on the mountains of
Scandinavia indicate that most of
Germany and northern Europe, as
we'll as Great Britain, must have
been under" water when the noun
tain farms <setra) of Scandinavia was
already out of the sea and may eve
at that time have afforded man and
beast a living. sc that it seems i'm
possible just to determine when parts
of the present Scandinavia was first
settled by Many things point
to a much earlier settlement than
Germany, but that the Scandinavian
people belong to the Indo-G ermanic
race, which presumably came from the
Caspian sea country, there is no
doubt; upon this point, the earliest
historical writer's seem to agree, but
how, when and by which route they
came, for a certainty, will likely
never be determined. The original
Scandinavian ace has always been
pioneers and a s%ea-faring rae and
roamers about the world. Their
early settlement in England, Iceland,
Ireland and France, and in the last
centuries in America, for instance in
northern Illinois and Iowa, in Wis
%consin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and
on to the Pacific, until there is as
great or greater number Of direct
descendants Of them in the United
States than the present population Of
Scandinavia, merely signifies that the
Scandinavians like the Jews, were
wanderers about the world before and
during the present civilization; their
respective countries being rather poor
in natural resources, they simply had
to get out.
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