Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — Mennonites. [ARTICLE]

Mennonites.

There are about four thousand Men 1 nonites, or Anabaptists, in Manitoba, divided into ten or twelve villages, and occupying the richest land. They came seven years ago, a large reservation being set apart by the Government for their exclusive use. Their language is a mixture of Russian and Low Dutch, and their customs and habits are primitive in the extreme. They are not at all cleanly, living under the same rool with pigs, cows, horses and poultry, and keep aloof from the settlers. Their elders decide minor disputes, but the power belongs to the people, without whose consent no business of* importance can be transacted. They are, of course, subject, to the provincial law. 1 The best time to eat a green apple is after it has become ripe. We give this information on good Minority. — Lowell Citieen. • •