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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 242, 12 October 1880, Page 4

Curious SpECTACLE.-r-The §pectacle of the sun shining at midnight attracts many foreigners to Swedish Lapland daring the month of June. For six weeks there is scarcely any night in the. north of Sweden ; the sun never sets, and tho soil, costantly heated^ produces in a month and a half barley and other crops. At that time of the year the Laplanders pen up their reindeer and move their huts towards the cultivated fields. Being very hospitable,, they greet with joy the arrival of tourists, who generally meet at Mount Gellaware, 148 kilometres from Lulea. Erom that hill, which is 580 metres high,, thp. beautiful spectacle ofthe 'midnight sun' can be admired under better conditions than from any other place. June 24th is the day selected for the ascension ; it is the longest day in the year, the sun being twenty-two hours above the horizon. This year June 24th was not favoured by fiue weather, and, owing to a clouded sky the sun was not visible at midnight ; but the following day travellers were well rewarded for their trouble, the sun shining brightiy at midnight. Meat Bread. — M. Scheurer-Keßt-ner (says tho English " Mechanic") has discovered the remarkable fact that the fermentation of bread causes the complete digestion of meat. He found that a beef steak cut into small pieces, and mixed with flour and yeast, disappeared entirely dnring the procesß of panification, its nutritive principles becoming incorporated with-the bread. The meat would also appear capable of preservation for an indefinite tipe in ite new etete, for