| Show norway may aray sath 1873 editor deseret news I 1 take the liberty of greeting you and my rocky bocky mountain friends from the country of the ancient goths goehs and vandals I 1 arrived at this capital from stockholm on the dinst in company with durold friend bishop knud peterson of ephraim now presiding over the scandinavian mission and my son E EW V snow the norave norwegian ian lan conference of the latter day saints came off in this place yesterday and today to day A similar gathering of elders and saints from the central and northern por eions of sweden was held at stockholm last saturday sunday and monday at which were representatives from finland and from branches in the far off north of sweden where darkness at this season of the year has fled away and clear twilight marks the period of the suns passing just below the northern horizon I 1 also find some elders deraat at this conference from high up in norway where on the of june the same feame orb of day may be seen to skim round the edge 0 of the horizon without disappearing at all I 1 I 1 find this mission in a heathy condition the elders zealous and faithful members lively and earnest meetings well attended considerable sid erable enquiry after truth and baptisms consid considerably embly in excess of emigration I 1 spent twenty four days in visiting the conferences in england scotland and wales and was pleased to find a good aggree degree of faith I 1 with a general desire to emigrate t to utah tah and a goodly number of baptisms yet there seemed not with the he exception of one or two places the he earnest efforts and thrift which characterize this mission genially gen rally I 1 left london april for vienna via france and bavaria accompanied by our new york emigration agent W 0 staines and elders J birch J G bleak and E W snow we spent a few days sightseeing sight seeing at paris versailles and strasburg and tarried ten days at vienna we had the pleasure of meeting P prest george A smith and his big palestine party at munich and enjoying their company during our stay in vienna and I 1 parted company pa lly ily with rith th them e m at berlin on the lath dinst and came by rail to lobeck thence by steamer to copenhagen crossed the sound to malma and thence by rail to stockholm where we arrived during the festivities following the coronation of oscar II 11 which took place on the the town was thronged thron ged with visitors both native and foreign ei n toi tot give a detailed description of our tour and observations would be tedious and foreign to rii ril my purpose but I 1 may perhaps be indulged in bulged in a few general observations upon countries and peoples the universal exposition at vienna bids fair to be a success though ail an undertaking of such magnitude enlisting the co opera tion of so many countries and people pleis is necessarily ponderous and slow and although the grounds are well selected the appointments and preparations seem ample and thousands of workmen busily engaged gabed yet up to the ath dinst probably ba ly not more than half the aru ard articles designed for exhibition were in place and some of the apartments not yet finished the american department was especially behind and it is intimated that there was a screw loose with the american commissioners but I 1 doubt not that american art and enterprise will be well represented by the first of june the viennese Vien vlen nesa have llave made ample preparations for catching the money that is to be their midst this summer butla I 1 am not mistaken they have ove blone bione the thing and many will fail fall to realize their extravagant expectations from vienna on tiie tho danube to lobeck on the baltic through austria saxony and prussia we passed rapidly over safe and well regulated railways and through a level rich and well cultivated country the same may be said of that portion of france traversed by us ANT esaw more hills and rough country in passing through portions of ol 01 al eck lenberg and bavaria I 1 was particular particularly tv im impressed re with the in manner 0 in vich which vieh the e rocky sleeps were utilized by terracing nac rac ang with rock so as to hold a little soil oil and vinos which seemed to cover all the rougher and more inaccessible a portions of the country and produce nino fine wines paris environs seems the pleasure grounds of france where also many pleasure seeking foreigners ride flaunt and spend their money its fine railroads its elegant public buildings though many showing the sad havoc of war its sculpture painting paintings gardens parks fountains promenades and forest avenues are all very attractive it can also boast of having done more than any other city to make vice appear respectable and to bedaub and guild rottenness and corruption its ganshow can ean show more legs kick hick higher and dance longer on one foot while they hold bold the other over their heads Ber ner berlin nerlin linand and new yew york however seem determined to rival paris in all these latter accomplishments vienna is a very fine city especially ally the new portion francis imitating napoleon III ili in drawing attention to hh his capital by means of the universal exhibition hibi tion P and otherwise by his liberal libera era policy in enlarging and beautifying the city but vienna is sadly behind paris in fountains and water for domestic use extensive water works however are in progress to remedy this deficiency the french and german railways are very smooth their carriages thou though gh of the same close comm communion u character are decide decidedly gly fly better than those of great britain of the corresponding classes the long capacious s democratic carriage of america does not yet find place on european railways we found the best fitted up and most comfortable carriages between Malma dialma and stockholm but the road bed not so smooth the swedish and norwegian roads are new and built through rough and sparsely settled regions to connect the larger to avns and but for the cheap labor of this country they could baldly be made to pay it is surprising how the laboring classes of norway and sweden subsist and raise families on the small pittance allowed for labor considering that their clothing and most staple articles of food fully equal american prices As to io the poor saints and nearly all are of that thai class saving means to emigrate it seems seema quite impossible without help I 1 learn from bro peterson that sanpete and some few other fie rie places laces respond liberally to calls for kielp would to heaven that cache and every eveny very other county in utah would do likewise ERASTUS P S P copenhagen wo returned to this place by steamer erastus W has gone to his field of labor in england yesterday the elders from utah appointed at the april conference arrived and were aus Pus signed assigned to their fields of labor two to iceland two to norway one to sweden and the rest in denmark they brought about from sanpete San pete contributions to help heip emigrate the poor god bless the donors E S FOREIGN NOTES miss nye eye has been given rent free for two years the house in great coram street london in which the mysterious lou iou s murder was done several mont montis ia is ago 0 shotwill she sho will use it as a house of reception for destitute children the charity commissioners who own the building in have strangely been forced to aid miss aliss ryes eyes benevolent labors by the popular belief bellef that the house is haunted the th e idea of platinum coinage continues to be a subject 0 of f discussion among the scientists of europe it is well known that nt other metal metai neither gold nor silver ex so many of the qualities required since on account of its high specific gravity it is proof against counterfeit while it scarcity renders it intrinsically valuable and its indestructibility fits it for constant use um it is now employed extensively in france drance for medals of various kinds and successful experiments peri ments have been made for co converting n it into coin it was used far for money purposes purposes in russia previous to 1845 but as the process of refining it was not well weli understood it was forbidden by imperial ukase 0 one of a party of eastern men offered a miner a half dollar for showing them through a nevada silver mine he looked at the money a moment and turning to the E easterner said sald li EASTERN NOTES t A kausas kansas dog ordinance has a tomcat tom cat amendment bronze jewelry is one of the latest novelties A plant has been discovered in mexico diex co which will cure baldness the te lates latest fc thing in marriage marriam announcements noun poun cements reads thus no cards K no 0 presents no divorce very brilliant jewelry is made 0 of f the heads of brazilian hummingbirds set in gold 1 A A young man twenty years old a citizen of augusta hung himself the other day because his coat ATrin wrinkled kled in the back tt the most stylish young ladies in town have struck against the tyran rny hy of the milliners and make their own bonnets they thes ey are selling a drink called frozen truth at the pittsburg saloons it is pleasant to know that a pittsburg man or any other man ilas lias bias any use for truth r an anfora iowa grange has resolved that it will wage a war against railroads even to extermination if need be the iron evidently has entered the farmers souls connecticut last year granted one divorce to every eveny eleven marria marriages es the whole number of divorces bal being i ng in cases the wife was the petitioner A new york lady wears a set of etruscan jewelry made over a thousand years ago which ia Is pronounced superior in design and finish to anything at present pearis pearls aris anis require airing as much as b horses and babies unless they are constantly worn they change boloy color and nd finally crumble to pieces this is not the case with diamonds though many mew maw york ladies act ilet as if they thought it was iv bhail the dubuque telegraph ph says A k carpenter in this eity city who has been troubled with rheumatism for along time yesterday discovered a novel and simple cuie he was as sitting in the sun and as the warmth seemed to relieve his acute pains he bared his leg and left it exposed until the heat had almost blistered it he says the rheumatism is all burned out and he is 18 entirely cured A baltimore child clandestinely drinking laudanum fell into a stupor succeeded by convulsions ahen when medical aid arrived it was too tod late to administer antidotes and electricity was resorted to for 1 two hours he was subjected sub ejected to ai a strong bistrong and continuous current at the end of which time his sinking energies ej u i engles began to return and by the next morning he was out of d danger inger a 1 1 1 ift 14 lit is insisted that the pretty lulu luiu who does the fl ying hying leap new york over whom h alf the city is crazy and who is advertised as a girl is a boy the gentle gentie youth is said to havn hava remarked the other day the old imah abah man ban halat got more than a year or liv livemore two more of the tile lulu luiu business vm im getting a moustache and aint lint near riar as pretty as I 1 was either cither john simp M ulison lison rison has charge of a cemetery in cincinnati the Tho theother other day they took up for the purpose of removal elsewhere two bodies this ahls the he people did not like and 1 went weilt to the newspapers about I 1 it L ijohn ajohn replies that he be will never do so a again gain in summers summer and then con eludes the trustees will conti continue to do dg all in their power to make it the cemetery a pleasant place of resort for our citizens A communication in ln til the plain jeader Je aee ade defending the mannelin man manner nerin in which the chamberlain trial was terminated says gays the court and jury were sati satisfied sned from the evidence that the prisoner e could not bd toe convicted under the indictment possibly but what we complain gris dris of Is that the trial should bo be suddenly 1 stopped before all the evidence was ip and that it should be dono 1466 done at lie lle tie the sa suggestion estion of th the e pre siding judge because he had made mado IY lils ilis mind the jury ought not to be bea aked ikc d to hang bang the prisoner maago post swarms of grasshoppers have leave appeared in northwestern iowa destroying wheat grass and all ail vegetation iv within reach the farmers are discouraged disc oural ed as everything thing 11 in the shape of crops is disappearing 13 a as sif if by magic and their prospect por for a remunerative year yeal they consider already alreada blasted who ther the voracious pests have from the ground or come from the western plains has not been determined but their appearance in such numbers and so early in season is considered unusual surprising the tho district visited this living scourge is located northwestern iowa and from the accounts thus far received it will be swept of its vegetation if a terrible conflagration had passed paced over it the boston journal says state constables have hereto fore mainly confined their seizures to liquors found upon premises promises the liquor was retailed by the glass A new move has been made madd the system of seizures seizure s is to be enlarged if we may judge by the action of the constables who visited the family grocery store of J 0 talbot in dorchester and took a large quantity of choice wines and brandies sold to families in that section who for many years have been dependent upon mr talbot for articles of this kind for cooki cooking n or medicinal purposes pu poses the cold summer weather induces a former resident of chesterfield to report that tron llon on the lith of june 1837 I 1 there were snow squalls at intervals throughout western massachusetts during the day and at night ploughed sloughed hed fields in the hill towns froze so deep that the crust frozen earth would sustain the weight of a man the following morning fruit and many classes of vegetation 0 were dea def destroyed troyed in many tany of the towns not a bushel of ripe corn was harvested ther the following autumn and farmers found it difficult to provide seed for their next planting the mayor has revoked the li bences of ten of the german saloon keepers who have kept their places open on sunday in concerted defiance of the law nothing I 1 less ss than this could have been expected the saloon keepers threw down the glove giove and the mayor was bound to t take a 1 e it ift up it is announced that it was at first his intention to revoke the licences licenses licen ces of all who had entered into compact to defy the law and that ho he refrained from doing so only on account of the saloon keepers association re ing their resolution it is to be presumed that the majorr mayor has selected thoe those for punishment who have shown the most determination mi nation to violate the sM subsequent sequent action of the sunday law chicago tribune something good has come out of new jersey A court there has decided that reading newspapers does not disfranchise or r in any way disqualify a citizen the absurd custom debarring all newspaper readers 3 from juries thus making it impossible in PO isible ia in important import mit wit cases to get together twelve men of any intelligence at all has been broken nto by y a judge adjudge at patterson in the bo gat art burroughs poisoning case who decided that so jong as a man could give an impartial in ria I 1 verdict according vla via to the e evidence erice he was not disqualified no m matter atter whether lie he had read the accounts previously published or not when it is remembered that every intelligent person reads a newspaper the good which this decision has done the jury iury system in that court at I 1 least east will be appreciated chicago press captain john D brant chief cherkof clerk of the bureau of vinance Oi 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