Paul Du Chaillu In Norway

I have been an extensivo traveler, but never in all my experience have I met with such an honest and simple class of people as the inhabitants of Norway, Sweden and Lapland. Their faith in human nature ia something incredible, and their honesty exceeds all bounds. Often have I left my money behind me in a farm house, and as often have I been l'ollowed on the road by my late host with the treasure I forgot in his doinicile. They scorn to take auy reward for doing what they conBider their duty, and as oiten as I have offered them rewards they have befin rejected. They are a very religious people, and a very democratie people. Of their religious simplioity volumes could be written. They are for the most part, in fact all, Protestants or Luthernns. They bury their dead in graveyards around the ohurches, and if a man dies 200 miles away his body must be brought to the graveyard and interrod. A stranger can teil the oondition of almost every lady he meets. Those that are engaged to be married have one plain gold ring, those who are married wear two, and those wno nave a iamiiy wear luioo. When a man's wife dies in this northorn olime the husband and his friendH have a three days' jollification. About their democratie ideas I cannot give you a better hotion than by mentioning the fact that I sought an interview with the king and was accorded the same. Before i was five minutes in the royal presence I was asked to smoke a cigar, and at separating was requested to cali again, which I did. When I returned I had to look for the king myself, there being no guards or servants around the house. I t'ound hini putting on his coat in a room up stairs, having just put the finishing touches on one of his pictures.