Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-31
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS In THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

or So just Past.
SWEDEN.
The excavation of antiquarian re-
mains in the southern part of Goth
land has brought to light number of
tire places which are supposed to date
back some 5000 years. There are
many evidences that the inha bitants
of the place were hunters and fisher
men.
Andree, the north pole explorer,
upon making his departure for the ad-
venturous journey, handed $115 to the
captain of Svensksund to be distribu-
ted as presents among the crew of the
steamer
The Blue Ribboners have made new
departure by voting nominal bounty
to the most successful Upsala student
Blue Ribboners.
The receipts of the Hoganas Coal
Mining company for the past year
were $44s, $50, the products being coal
and fire proof clay and brick.
Duke Gunther, brother of the en-
press of Germany, has sold his estate
at Grafsnas for about S175,0O0.
Sahlberg's patent bureau in Stock
holm offers S270 for the patent of a
broom that raises no dust.
Anent the question of raising a num-
Der of prominent men to the rank of
nobility at the kings jubilee, the Ost-
gotta Correspondence recommend that
the king take steps to put an end to
that practice in Sweden.
The Russian minister of the interior
has ordered the governors of all north
ern provinces to be prepared to render
the Swedish north pole explorers aid
in case they land in that part of the
globe.
The nun Der of letters handled at the
Stockholm exposition is $4,000 day.
The oldest practicing physician in
Sweden is DR.. jacob of Solvesborg.
He celebrated his Goth birthday Aug. 2.
The cost of certain luxuries per in
habitant was as follows for the year
1895; Liquors, $1.40; sugar and syrup,
So cents; tobacco, FL cents; coffee, tea
and chocolate, Is cents; VINE, cents.
The emigration for the past three
months was considerably lighter than
for the corresponding period last year.
Five thousand car loads of lumb Der
along the Vexio and Klafrestrom rail-
way is ready for expectation to foreign
countries, and car famine is immi-
nent.
The progress of the Blue Ribboners
has been very great. The organiza-
ton dates back only 10 years, and the
membership for the following years of
900; 1891, $4,000; 1892, 41,OOO; 1894, 64,-
900; 1896, $4,000.
A special picnic railway train con-
sisting of about SIS cars, recently car
ried $500 passengers.
About so relatives of Christina Nils
son have had a reunion at her birth
place, Snugge, Vederslof parish. The
party had dance in the evening, and
''Stina'' herself had to furnish vocal
music part of the time.
The late August Hoffman, castle
architect at Stockholm, has willed his
whole fortune, $4,000, to number of
charitable and other institutions.
An influential daily looks with mis-
giving upon the tendency toward pro-
tectionism in English commercial and
political circles, because protective
tariff in England would mean a great
blow to certain Swedish articles of ex-
port.
Certain papers think the government
ought to grant August Strind berg, the
noted author, decent salary so that
he may devote his time exclusively to
belletristic efforts.
Sixty-four years has E. P. Akerberg
served as organist and prccentor in the
parish of Kyrk heddinge, Skane. Being
IS years old, he has just resigned. and
his grandson has been appointed as his
successor. Thus the same dynasty will
remain in power.
A rare perch was recently caught in
Melaren. 1t weighed eight pounds,
and was so old that the top of its head
was covered with moss.
Seven Swedes have started on a sci
" entific expedition to the neighborhood
of the mouth of the Plethora river in
Siberia.
Statistical tables giving the number
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trades in the city of Stockholm show
that the most prolific class, the sailors,
have an average of 2.s children per
family, while the classes given at the
foot of the scale, namely, the plum bers
and teamsters have less than one child
per family.
NORWAY.
Tariff on imported goods amounted
to $7,263, 900 for the past fiscal year.
This is an increase of almost 81, 600, 900
for one year, and it also exceeds the
estimation made in the budget year
ago by $3.50, 1000.
Norway still continues to encourage
promising writer's and artists in SUBJ
stantial way. The stipends just granted
by the storthing are as follows, the
amounts being given in kroner Il kro-
nor haino onna1 RI 81 confe\. Arno