Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-02-23
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS u,
Il Interesting Notes" From Across
I'll the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND,
3riaetpal Events that Have Occurred In
g tho Old Countries About the
@@5s. North Sea Within . Week
4 Or So Just Past
SWEDEN.

eetlmated cost OF which is nearly
Se.0oo,oo0.
The public school at Hillarp had to
be closed because none of the appli-
oants could pass the regular examina-
tions
There were II, ITO public schools of
different grades in Sweden at the close
OF the year 1895. The number of pu-
pills between Z and IA years of age was
SOC. 9s1-409,977 boys and $3.50 girls;
and the number of regular teachers
was 1852.
The total abstainers In the riksdag
are preparing a bill appropriating Sc, 900
for the promotion of the cause of tenn
perance.
Extensive beds of black granite have
been discovered in Nora Akarp parish
and the price of the land suddenly rose
enormously.
No less than 4s members of the riks-
are strongly in favor of agitating for
the achievement of international arbi-
tration.
About 20 girls who are employed at
the Furnland wooden mills, near NAL
mo. have been on a strike because
their employees charge SO much week
for board at the boarding house con-
nected with the factory. whether the
employees take all their meals there Or
not.
There were Ass seamen accommo.
dated at the Stockholm seamen's home
last year. The receipts for that period
were over $4,000, the expenses about
81, 300. The assets of the institution
exceed the liabilities by $3.50
A couple of Swedish variety singers
are about to leave for Copenhagen
But their songs must be endorsed by
the public censor before they are per-
mitted to sing in public, and. accord
ingly, they sent 1854 different ballads to
the censor of Copenhagen. The papers
very properly pity the mortal who is
to read and pass Judgment upon all
this "poetry."
The crown princess is sojourning in
Rome on account of her failing health.
She is protestant herself, but her do
nations to Catholic institutions in the
eternal city, are SO large as to elicit
ample comments in the press.
o. R. Themptander, one of the most
able and illustrious public men of Swe-
den. died Jan. so at the age of So years.
The .Arlof sugar refinery disposed of
= $4,000 tons of beets in January. a~-.,
Over 10, 900 newspaper men have been
invited to the journalists congress in
Stockholm next summer.
OF the 513 inhabitants of the parish
of Tanno. 267 are pronounced total alb.
tstainers. No other parish in Sweden
can display such record
The available power of the Krangede
water falls, in Jemtland, which has
been bought by De Laval for $22, 900, is
about 100. 900 horse power.
Miss Amanda Svedlund, who has
taught school in Torp. Medelpad, for
Is years past, deserves mention on ac-
count of her life of self-sacri6ce. Her
salary is about 500 year; but for sew
eral years past she has made this suf-
fee to support herself. her aged mother
and a niece of hers.
The street railway system of Stock
holm dates back only 20 years, and
600, DOC, 600 passengers have been served
during that time. About 100 cars are
in use at present, and the average
number of horses required is 47o.
Miss Aaroxe Storckenfeldt has cele-
brated her so years jubilee as princi-
pal of the Jonkoping high school for
girls. She founded said institution
when she was about 80 years old. A
present of $270 was handed to her on
the occasion of the jubilee.
~ A bullet which was fred into the eye
of man in 1895 destroyed the eye at
once, and in the course of time nearly
his whole body was paralyzed. A
short time ago the bullet was located
: in the back part of the head by means
of the Roetgen rays, and Prof Len
nander, of Upsala, succeeded in remov-
ing it.
Archbishop Sundberg is gradually
recovering from his sickness
The debt of the kingdom of Sweden
on Dec. 81, 1896. was $7s, Isl, 62l. 81. an
increase of So. 1000 over the previous
year.
ST The Swedish peace society has re-
/ solved to celebrate Dec. 10 every year,
the anniversary of the death of the late
Alfred Nobel.
AL Ibsen is again suffering for the
/ breadth, or. perhaps, rather ambiguity
Of some of his characters. Some in
genious critic claims to have discov-
cred that the latest work of Ibsen is
chock full of reflections upon B. Bjorn.
son. The matter has even reached
such dimensions that 1bsen has been
compelled to authorize his friends to
state that he most emphatically and
earnestly declares that he has not
aimed at Bjornson." .-1@z. !, ' .,ss:
The proposition in the Venezuela
treaty to authorize King Oscar to select
8theseventusl umpire has met so much
opposition in America, sayssa Norwe-
Agian daily, because Russia has OBJ.
dected. What particular grudge has
NRussis against King Oscar? II 1885.
his grandfather Joined an alliance with
France and England Russia, and no
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