Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-02
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across
+. the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred II
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within . Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

During the last few days of the
Stockholm exposition the visitors were
not prescriptions as to the manner
OF securing souvenirs. and between
10000 and 10000 objects vamoosed
without visible returns.
Landskrona will soon have the larg
est pork packing establishment in
Sweden.
Private parties are making arrange
1nents for the establishment of new
hospital near Norrkoping The Kneipp
water cure will be employed, and the
cost of the establishment is put at
S335, 0OO
locomotive and a car were dera1ied
near Vexio by a cow standing on the
track. Two persons were killed and
several injured.
Bishop Gunnar Wennerberg, the inn
mortal author of "Gluntarne,'' has
completed his s0th year A perfect
Hood of kilograms poured in upon the
venerable bard in the course of his
birthday.
The price of fresh salmon in south
ern Sweden is from 80 to 80 cents a
pound. BY way of comparison it may
be mentioned that the retail price of
that article in the Twin Cities is only
from 10 to Is cents pound.
young man was accidentally shot
and killed al Stockholm shooting
gallery.
Bishop Charleville, of Linkoping, has
completed his 10Th year.
Nils Nilsson, butcher at Winslof,
known far and wide for his long
wh:saers, went to Kristlanstad at the
time when the king passed through
that city. Nils admitted that he in
tended to surprise the king, and his
majesty did actually express wonder
at the sight of the two six-foot locks of
whiskers of which Nilsson is the proud
.possessor. These whiskers are the re-
suit of 20 years of diligent culture.
The Good Templar lodge of Trelle-
borg recently had a regular meeting
on board ship in the harbor This is
the first event of its kind in the his
to:y OF Good Templarism in Sweden.
The annual budget of the govern
snent of Sweden has grown from S13,-
'5o,0eo in the course of the past IS
years.
A,girl who is employed n~packing
matches in a factory in the southern
part of the country put a short love
poem written by herself into box of
matches. She did not mean much bv
this-only gave vent to her feelings as
bes: she knew how. A few days ago
she received letter from 4 Swede in
America, who had found herjpoem. He
made fair and square proposal of
marriage, but as she is a sensible and
patient girl it is asserted that she will
remain single until she has found out
what sort of a fellow that man in the
far west is.
Dr. Loostrom, the secretary of the
board OF managers of the Stockholm
exposition, is preparing large work
on the exposition.
The crown prince killed seven deer
in one day at Skabersjo
Over $1,000 worth of liquors were
sold on the grounds the last day of the
exposition.
While some boys were PLAYING in
and around a railway freight car in
NoT-koping, one of them concealed
himself in chest in the car Cnfor-
tunateiy the cover fell down. and the
boy was locked in. When the car ar
rived at Linkoping a peculiar sound
was heard and the boy was taken out
nearly exhausted, after captivity of 80
hours.
Frldti of Nansen. just before leaving
for America, expressed himself as fol-
lows on the expedition of Andree. Mt
is not an unfavorable sign that moth
ing has been heard from Andree for a
Long time. It is very probable that he
is still alive, and it is most likely that
nothing will be heard from him until
mex. year. Suppose he has landed in
the Arctic regions north of America,
Or in northern Siberia. In either case
he will be forced to go into winter
quarters until he can proceed towards
the Inhabited world next spring. He
had. provisions for three months and ne
: can spend the winter up there as we'll
as others have. 1t is very likely that
Andree has reached the pole, which,
by the way, is only question Of time.
The new gas works Of Malmo VIII!
be ready for use in few months. The
capacity of the reservoir is $4,000
cubic meters.
- rs. NORWAY.
=. Bjornson has just expressed him
self as follows on Norwegian politics:
It requires two-thirds majority in
the storthing to introduce general suf-
s}frage. The liberals will have such a
a5o-ity in the next storthing, hence
the right to vote will be made general.
Tbs will make no radical change in
our social system. The tenants thus
mandenel of Norway are attached to
the lznd-owning farmers. aud move
men.sis on foot to make the two iefen-
teal by enabling the former to secure
557fnll ownership of their little farms.
And a country whose land is owned
by the great mass of the people does
not need to fear the social revolution
which is threatening the rest Of Eu-
rope. In this respect the position OF
Norway is happily unique among the