NOTES OF TRAVEL.
CARPATHIAN INDUSTRIES.
The most curious characteristic is the variety of occupations. The soil not being rich, numbers of people are driven to seek sustenance elsewhere. The general character of the occupations is that of hawkers, except in the lower part of Arvaand some villages in Liptau, the inhabitants of which aro draughtsmen ; the others go about as masons or labourers in the building trade. There are a couple of villages which supply itinerant glaziers. In the north of Trentschin there is a race alcin to the Savoyards, who sell wire traps for mice and rats and mend broken crockery with wire. There are two villages the inhabitants of which hawk about turpentine oil, and go chiefly to Russia, whore they act at the same time the part of country doctors. In the Upper Avva there are the hawkers of linen, who start with a waggon-load, go to Turkey, and only come back when they have sold out. All this shows a turn for enterprise which might in time do a great deal to better the lot of the people, were it not for spirits, which are a bane to the country. — Gorrespomlcnt of (he Times.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1155, 17 January 1874, Page 10
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198NOTES OF TRAVEL. Otago Witness, Issue 1155, 17 January 1874, Page 10
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