Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-04-06
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.

North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
The executive committee of the 1. o.
d. I. has resolved that no Good Temp
lar can belong to the new Swedish Or
der ''Verdandi" because the latter
twas started for the purpose of antag-
>onizlng the Good Templars."
A man in the far north recently had
to face the charge of having kept pig
that does not see, the number of counts
being no less than 70, and he was fined
in the sum of $3.50
The bath rooms which were opened
up in the Katarina public school in
Stockholm year ago, have proven
great success. Eighty-six per cent of
the children in attendance have taken
of baths served during the year was
20, 500.
A woman in Stockholm put her coffee
pot on gasoline stove and lay down
on lounge to take rest. When the
pot had been boiling long enough she
asked of her 5-year old boy to turn off
the gasoline. In attempting to do this
his foot slipped, and he pulled down
the stove, setting fire to his clothes.
He was Immediately taken to hos
pital, but he died after a few days of
terrible suffering.
A girl IN Skeninge sued the father of
her child; but as he declared in court
that he was ready to swear that he had
%<>l ID lon h4n NH
she withdrew her charges. Every body
present seemed to understand that she
did this to save him from perjuring
himself, and a purse was raised for the
unfortunate woman.
The Mas sloyd seminary has just
completed the 25th year of it's exist
ence. Fifty-two ladies were in attend
ance during the term which has just
closed. One may judge of the cosmo-
politan nature of the school by the fact
that the representatives of those SO la
dies on the commencement program
were Miss Susan Look, of Louisville
South America, and Miss Aagot HELM,
of Eidsvold, Norway.
Valdemarsvilx has a little over 500
inhabitants, but AZ telephone appar-
abuses are in use in the town, one for
every IL persons. Valdemarsvik is
supposed to hold the worlds record in
point of telephone facilities, while
South Haven, Mich, is regarded as
respectable number two, the number
OF inha bitants and the number of tele-
phone apparatuses in the latter city be-
ing in the ratio of 16 to l.
The students of the university of
Lund sent an encouraging telegram to
King George of Greece in regard to the
trouble with Crete. The king returned
the complement by a dispatch of
thanks. The Danish students followed
in the wake of their Lund confreres;
and the fun of the thing was that the
answer was exactly the same as the
one received by the Lund students.
In Vrigstad parish are four deaf and
dumb sisters whose ages range from so
70 years. A fifth sister, who is normal
in every respect, keeps house for them.
The local government pays their house
rent, but otherwise they support them
selves by sewing, embroidery, etc.
When the attention of the king was
called to this unique family he immedi-
token of appreciation.
A movement is on foot to organize
the male choirs of Norrland into
grand chorus of 1900 voices which is to
sing at the kings 25 years jubilee Sept
IS next
The contribution of the government
to Andree's next expedition will be in
the shape of the transport of the outfit
of the expedition to Spitzbergen with
the gunboat Svensksund. The extra
expenses of the government on &C.
count of the voyage will be at least
sc, 900.
A Stockholm paper has engaged a
poet to write national song for the
Swedes; but to judge by the express
sions of the press in general, the efforts
of that enterprising paper will hardly
be appreciated by those for whom the
goods were ordered.
E. Lindell, of Stenestad parish, has
killed So royal eagles in the course of
the past 10 years.
The wife of an Angermanland school
school teacher gave birth to five child
rem in the year 1885,. twins in the first
parL OF the year anu trlpAeL6 at us close.
Returns from Is of the leading sugar
;refneries in southern Sweden show
that the average yield for the past year
was 1917 pounds of sugar out of every
100 pounds beets.
Halmstad will soon have new $780,
900 brewery.
NORWAY.
The city government of Christiania
has taken steps to use the ''pure'' flag
ON the public buildings of the city.
This is justly regarded as a significant
victory for the ''pure" nag.
Hjalmor Petersen, assistant librarian
at the university, has undertaken to re-
view the foreign books, pamphlets,
etc, on Norway as a resort for tourists.