People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1893 — Laplanders at the Fair. [ARTICLE]

Laplanders at the Fair.

When the next world’s fair is held it is not probable there will be any Laplanders present. Ten years ago there were twenty-seven thousand Laplanders. * Now there are only eleven thousand. Death and amalgamation are making away with them as a distinctive branch of the human family Ethnologically this may be the truth. It doesn’t seem to agree very well with what old King Bull, the head of the Midway colony, claims for himself and family. Bull says he is one hundred and twelve years old. His son, Bala Bull, he says is ninety years of age. Bals Hygd Bull, the grandson, is sev-enty-three, Bals Hygd Bull has a daughter fifty-nine years old, and her son is forty-one. The grandson of Bals Hygd Bull has a son twenty-nine years old. The daughter of this twenty-nine-year-old Bull is fourteen, and she has a little girl two years old. Thus, it appears, according to old King Bull, that eight generations of his family are living.