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(1859) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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THE FIRE-WATCHMAN OF CHRISTIANIA.

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pretentious and aristocratic, but, 011 the contrary, they
look like the residences of well-to-do, careful people,
who live within their means and pay their tailor’s bills.
Opposite the Hotel du Nord is a baker’s shop, which
may be taken as a type of some of the peculiarities
of the shops in Christiania. It appears like a private
house—a mansion, I might almost say, from its
dimensions. There is no shop-front, merely the common
dwelling-house windows, which are decorated with
growing flowers in pots; but the flowers are not
floury, nor does the shop-keeper look whiter than other
Norwegians. I should never have guessed that bread
was made or sold there, but that swinging over the
door is a wooden effigy of a convoluted loaf—the
usual true-lovers’ knot done in bread, common here
and in North Germany. Most of the food-vendors
have shops of this kind. There are a few with
shop-fronts, but these are chiefly devoted to the sale of
fancy articles; other shop-keepers place a few samples
of their wares in plain parlour windows.

On making some purchases of books, maps, and
minor matters of clothing, I find in every shop some
one who can speak English, and that generally it is
well spoken. English articles prevail at the drapery
and haberdashery establishments; the latest devices in
shirt-collars and similar articles are there, stamped with
the names of the best-known London houses, and
retailed at the same price as in London.

The regular lions of Christiania, such as the Palace,
the University, a picture-gallery, &c.—for which, see

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