Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-18
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 Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

Eighteen sugar factories in the south
ernfnost part of Sweden consumed alto
gether about 900, 900 tons of beets dur
ing the past season.
The aggregate deposits of the gov
ernment postal savings banks now
amount to $13. $685. 900.
Fraenclzel and Svedenborg, on one
OF their balloon ascensions, struck
dense cloud IS, 500 feet above Paris.
One of them shouted, and the sound re-
verberated in a most wonderful way.
They next sang the national song of
Sweden, and the strains returned from
the cloud as from a hundred voiced
chorus. Says our authority: Never
before did the clouds above Paris sing.
Or rather re-echo, the national hymn
of Sweden"
If Arch bishop Sundberg lives to June
18th next he will have served as arch
bishop of Sweden for longer period
than any of his predecessors.
Only 20 applications for space at the
Stockholm exposition have been re-
ccived from Finland. This is a sur
prisingly small number, and many are
those who ask, "What's the matter
with Tinland?"
a Stockholm bicyclist knocked down
man walking on the street. There
is nothing strange about this. But the
whcelman did actually do something
strange. He jumped off his wheel and
took his victim to the doctor, paid the
latter's bill, and finally handed the
former a considerable sum of money.
There is at least one saloon in Stock
holm that has separate apartment
''for ladies only"
Eight hundred new bicycles were
registered in a single day at the police
headquarters of Stockholm.
The new electric Touring mill at
Fifvelstad has been tested, and every
thing seems to work to perfection.
The motive power is transmitted from
a waterfall in the Motala river, the
distance being several miles. So far
this plant is the most extensive of it's
kind in Sweden.
1t is proposed to build an electric
railway from Sundsvall to Vista. The
cost of the enterprise Is estimated at
$3.50, 900.
Nansen, at dinner in Belfast, Eng
land, said he had very little confidence
in balloon expeditions to the north
pole, chiefly on account of unfavorable
air currents.
On May the so-called continental
route" will be opened directly between
Sweden and Germany. Two large
steamers will ply regularly the whole
year between Treble borg, Sweden, and
Sassnitz, on the island of Rugen, Ger
many. 1t is freely predicted that the
opening of this route will work new
era in the commercial intercourse be-
tween Sweden and Germany, and a
very few but we'll chosen figures seem
to corroborate this prediction. Up to
date, the traffic between said countries,
excepting four months in the summer,
has been carried on exclusively across
Denmark. This has entailed an an
nual tribute of something like $3.50, 900
and steamship companies Of Denmark.
But this is not all. BY way of Den
mark, it takes So hours to travel from
Stockholm to Berlin, while the new
continental route" will reduce the
time to "a hours.
Vendes artillery regiment is the most
expensive in the Swedish army, it's ex-
penses for the year 1895 having been
nearly 100000.
About 100, 900 copies of circular let
ter have been forwarded to prominent
theologians and scholars, requesting
them to give their opinion in regard to
a proposition to hold a congress of re-
ligions at Stoclzh holm in connection with
the exposition. The fate Of the propo-
sition to hold such 4 congress will de-
pend largely upon the nature of the
answers to those circular letters.
Otto Nordenskjold has just returned
from an exploring expedition through
Terra del Fuego, South America. Nor
denskj old has collected material for
general account of the LAND of fire.
and new book may be confidently ex-
pected from him in short while.
An ancient burial place has been dis.
covered in a gravel pit in Hyllic parish.
Several lakes in the vicinity of Tveta-
berg will be drained this summer, and
hundreds of acres of arabic land will
thereby be reclaimed.
NORWAY.
Leo Tolstoi, the great Russian poet
and reformer, has just had q chance to
to read 3. BjornsOn's "The King" and
has expressed himself to the effect that
the beauty of the production has
afforded him great joy, and that it's