A Strange Story.
■ ♦ A strange story comes from Finland. A regular slave-mart rill -xists in many of the country di' tricts. A year such paupers, once lunatics, and aged people of each parish as cannot support themselves, a>e put up to public auction, mid consigned to those farmers or families who will board them at the loweU prices oftVred by the parish authorities. The he'pUss crentuna are made to work as much as possible by their owners, who havo the r ght to chastise them, and are generally most inhuman in their treatment. Lunatics have been used even as cart horses.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 1 August 1890, Page 2
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101A Strange Story. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 1 August 1890, Page 2
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