midnight sun
Above the main entrance is a large paintin ' representin ' a scene in Lapland . Inside the inclosure are the huts of a Lapland Village , with the Laps all there to work at their own work . What a marvellous change for them ! Transported from a country where there is eight months of total darkness , and four months of twilight or midnight sun , and so cold that no instrument has ever been invented to tell how cold it is . When the frozen seas and ice and snow is all they can see from birth till death . I wonder what they think of the change to this dazzlin ' daylight , and the grandeur and bloom of 1893 ! But still they seem to weather it out a considerable time in their own icy home .