Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-03-30
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND
Rrincipal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN,

points have been named after Swedes
who were connected with Andrce's ex-
petition.
The stars and stripes were proudly
waving over the American legation at
Stockholm on the 4th of March-in-
auguration day.
The crown prince attended the cele-
bration of the Tooth birthday of Kaisel
Wilhelm I, at Berlin, March 90.
The volunteer sharpshooters' clubs of
Sweden have never. been in better con-
dltlon than at present. Seventy-three
new clubs sjoined the national in 1896,
and the total mem bership at the close
OF the year was 2O,Sl6. The number
shots fred at competitive shooting
matches was ISL $50; and of the med
ais awarded 135 were of gold, 453 of
bronze, and 1876 of bronze. The gov.
eminent loaned out 1882 rifles to the
clubs, and the appropriation for the
past year was $4,000. The executive
committee in it's annual report says:
''Our greatest anxiety is caused by the
question, how can we use the appro-
prlation so as to meet the growing de-
mands for aid? 1t is to be hoped, how
ever, that the greater the progress of
the movement is among the people, as
a useful and necessary means of de-
fence, the greater will be the DISPOSE
ton of the lawmakers to increase the
appropriations. 1t may be added by
way of explanation that fresh impe-
tus has been given to the movement by
the friction between Sweden and Nor
Ia f0r
Sweden to know that the car of Rus
STA expressed himself as being hostile
to q possible invasion of Norway by a
Swedish army.
The Swedish Dentists ASSOCIATION,
by permission of the government, has
made arrangements to have the teeth
of the pupils of the public schools thor
oughly examined.
The telephone operators of Stock
holm made preparations for strike
which was to take effect March 9.
The census bureau of Stockholm has
dropped silent letters from family
names Thus, Sahlberg becomes Sal
berg, Lofvander loses the f, Hiulstrom
is changed to Julstrom, etc. Ericsson
is all that remains of the Is different
ways OF spelling that name.
At least ii new hotels will be opened
up in Stockholm on account of the ex-
position next summer.
The Gothenborg Enskilda bank has
contributed So, ZOO to the kings jubilee
fund.
Sven Hedin, the great explorer, has
arrived at Pekin, China, from his ex-
ploring expedition through central
Asia. and his next point of destination
is Irlzutsk, Siberia.
Sven Scholander, of Stockholm, in a
scholarly lecture, recently, gave an in
terestlng account of the old Swedish
habit of singing hymns and ballads at
the table. At the close of the lecture
he denounced the social habits of our
times as stiff and stale and unnatural,
and the speaker was of the opinion
that the old habit of enhancing the
joys of the table by singing jolly songs
might be revived if the poets would
furnish the necessary material by way
of ballads and ditties.
The farmers of southern Sweden
were busy blowing the 9th of March.
March was the 5Oth anniversary of
the ratification of the law granting
women the right to engage in mercan-
tile business.
The Good Templars will operate a
general bureau of information in con-
nection with reading room at IS
Nora Smedjegatan, Stockholm, during
the exposition.
The lower house of the riksdag by a
vote Of 1O6 to 100 defeated bill ex-
tending the tariff laws between Swe-
den and Norway another year. The
bill was defeated without formal
vote by the upper house. This result
means that said laws will expire in the
night following July 18th next.
The value of the total production of
the wooden mills of Norrkoping for the
year 1897 was So, 100000.
B. S. Anderson, of Stockholm, has
solved problem on which an unknown
quantity of brain matter has been ex-
pended in vain. He has invented cir
cular saw by which blocks of large
size may be sawed out of the native
rock. The surface left by the cut is
remarkably smooth, in fact almost
ready for polishing: The invention
has been patented in many countries.
NORWAY.
This is the exact language used by
the London Times in reviewing Fridt-
jof Nansen's 'Farthest North" ''Dr.
Nansen and his comrades have made a
splendid addition to the sum of human
achievement. The book in which the
story of their remarkable expedition
is told enriches the literature of ex-
ploration with another classic. There
is not page of pudding. Had DR..
Nansen not exercised consummate skill
in selection and compression, had he
not shown. wonderful art in arranging
details. much of the book might have
been dull as we fear must sometimes
have beeh the life of the men on board
the slowly drifting Fran. Many of
the chapters really fascinate; and when
we reach the narrative Of that incon-
ceivably trying journey of Nansen and
.JOhanSen across some hundreds of