Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18

mitted to discontinue their lectures for
a part or even the whole of the semes-
ter, without securing substitutes to do
their work. Some professors also give
only five out of the six lectures a week
for which they are catalogued. Our
authority opines that these Irregular
tiles must be due to "a too republican
administration, and rather easy going
president
Several cases of smallpox have been
treated at the Stavanger hospital.
The Vesteraalen Steamship company
is preparing for an extensive tourist
traffic in Spitzbergen next summer.
The company will also publish paper
at Spitzbergen during the tourist sea-
son. The paper, which is to be called
the Spitzbergen Gazette, and is to be
printed in English and German, will
be managed by Captain Sverdrup.
An electric station will be built at
the Rjukan waterfalls in Telemarken,
partly for supplying the hotels in the
neighborhood, partly for illuminating
the magnificent falls in the night.
The storthing was equally divided
81 against SION a motion to censure
the government because the latter had
not negotiated a special commercial
treaty between Norway and Japan,
but on the other hand, had agreed to
treaty common to Norway and Sweden.
The tie was broken by President Steen,
who decided the vote in favor of GEN.
surfing the government.
Stephan Sinding is the fortunate
competitor for the honor of being Sc
ing selected to execute the Ole Bull
statue which will be raised in Bergen.
At Otta, Gudbrandsdalen, a rock
came tumbling down the mountain
side, and struck the dwelling house at
South Endrestad. The rock having
travelled a thousand feet or more, and
the mountain side being almost per-
pendicuiar, the speed of the rock was
so great that it broke through three
walls much like a cannon ball. killing
a man who was sick in bed, but leav-
ing the other inmates of the house per-
fectly unscathed.
The surplus of the samlag, or COM
pany, running the retail liquor trade
of Bergen was SOL, 900 for the past year.
This amount will be distributed among
a number of charitable and other in
situations.
At a national convention of the total
abstinence association of Norway, a
resolution was passed to the effect that
the laws regulating the sale of wine
and beer ought to be changed so as to
be practically Identical with those gov
erning the sale of distilled liquors.
Mr.. Hansen, the town treasurer of
Fredricksvarn, and his wife, have cele.
brated their golden wedding.
A number of buildings in Busedalen,
Kongsberg, were destroyed by fire.
Aalesund has had the smallpox scare,
physician and his servant girl hav-
ing been attacked by the dread disease.
Up to April 20 the subscriptions to
the kings jubilee fund amounted to
$4,000.
Government surveyors will soon be-
gin the work of locating the proposed
railway line from Gudvangen to Stall
helm.
Once in a great while genuine vik-
ings are still found in Norway, and a
50-year-old fisherman at Donnesfjord
seems to be one of them. While walk
ing across a mountain in a snow storm
he lost his way, and when he at last
found human ha bitation, three of his
toes were hopelessly frozen. He coolly
took his knife and cut off one toe after
another and threw them into the fire.
But instead of staying at home to
nurse his wounds he took mis- boat and
rowed out on the ford to pull in his
fish nets, when his feet were chilled
and blood poisoning set in.
DENMARK.
The Danish Sugar factory celebrated
the 25th anniversary of its establish
ment, and Sc, 750 was distributed as
presents among the employees of the
firm on this occasion.
Henrik Cavling, the representative
of Politiken, had an interview with
with Col. Vassos, the commander of the
Greek forces in Crete. The latter pre-
sented Cavling with Cretan dagger
as souvenir.
A high school was opened by private
parties in Amager, near Copenhagen,
a couple of years ago. The undertake
ing proved success, and recently the
school was removed into a new three
story building, we'll equipped and
pleasantly located. The chief aim of
the school is to prepare the pupils for
examination in the shortest possible
time.
A very large committee has been ap-
pointed to encourage open air plays
among the pupils of the public schools.
The matter is considered to be of such
Importance that the committee will
certainly receive financial aid from the
rigsdag. In localities where there are
two or more schools close together, it
is proposed to arouse the interest of
the children by means of large rallies
or tournaments.
The Germans were defeated by the