Willmar tribune., 1897-12-28
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
AAPPEMkCSelN THE FAIHERLAND.
principal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.

1r'ncipal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
OR So just Past.
SWEDEN,
Sixteen thousand persons have paid
their dues to the Swedish tourists
anlon for the present year.
Sweden has 9.so5 kilometers of rail
roads. Seven European countries are
ahead OF Sweden in this respect.
The establishment of the steamship
line between Trellcborg. Sweden. and
>assnitz. Germany. proves to be a
great boon to southern Sweden, and
even fish dealers in northern Denmark
send some of their goods via this route.
Gustaf Froding, the poet, started a
new total abstinence society which he
called THE Red Ribbon Emil Hill
berg Joined the society, swelling the
total mem bcrship too. But the found.
er now seems to have gone back on
his own creation. for he says in a
newspaper communication: I'VE must
not be examples by way Of abstinence,
but by way Of abstinence when it is
necessary or useful. We may be ex.
amples even in prudent enjoyment
Some American negroes who are to
pose as ''cannibals'' in northern Swe-
den, entered into fierce quarrel
among themselves while stopping in
Stoclzh Ohm, and the police had to in
terfcre.
strong stock company has been Or
Sanized at Malmo for dealing in Pc
troleum on Il large scale. Three large
tanks have been built, and at least
$500, 900 will be spent on the plant by
July !, at which time everything will
be ready for business.
About S3O 600 has been sent from
Sweden to the famine sufferers in
India.
Nils Ekholm. who was to have ac-
companied Andrce to the North Pole,
delivered a lecture on the proba BILE
late OF the latter, stating as his opin-
ION that Andrees expedition landed
about July .: in the Polar regions, and
that nothing will be heard from him
until next summer.
The Red Cross society raised 50, 500
in Sweden for the aid of sufferers from
the recent war in Greece.
The riksdag will be asked to appro-
PIRATE about S15, 900 for extensions and
improvements Of the clinic Of the Uni
vcrsity Of Upsala.
The waterfalls above Rottle, near
Grenna, will be sold to an English
syndicate for ss5, 900.
The Unive. sity of Lund offers 5000 a
year for three years to the young man
who will prepare himself for preach
ing in the Finnish language.
A tenant farmer in Tolg has taken
the necessary steps to get married for
the fifth time. He lived on happy
terms with his four previous wives.
but they all died before him.
Bishop billing may be transferred to
the vacant bishopric of Lund, ''the
fattest SEQ Of Sweden.
Karl Horbcrg. druggist in IIelsing-
borg, for years has been suffering from
I. disease, or rather strange combina-
1ion of diseases. which baftled the ply
sicians. Now, after he has lost his
reason and is expected to die almost
any time. it has been found that his
troubles came from a blanket which
he had used. and the coloring of which
contained considerable proportion of
arsenic.
Rev. Lekscll. Of Falu. in the capa-
city of school inspector. has been in
the habit Of acting as dentist among
the children of the schools inspected
by him, and the advertising he gets
free of charge in the press Of the whole
country must be an unpleasant sur
prise to him.
Carl Cervin. a Stockholm banker,
and Ivar Svedberg, an engineer in the
Billesholm mine, have petitioned the
government for permission to operate
coal mines and clay pits in She parishes
of North and South Vram. the est,-
mated output to oe $4,000 tons of coal
and 10000 tons of clay per year.
vacancy in the police force of
1,onma brought out 40 applications,
though the salary is only sls9 year.
j. A. Liudbcrg. professor in the
academy of liberal arts. has been ap-
pointed to the position of official en-
graver at the royal mint.
The Northern Museum is only 25
years old, but it contains the largest
chronological collection in Scandinavia.
and one Of the most Important in the
world. The cash 'donatiuns up to date
amount to about $500
NORWAY.
A stone mason in Trondhjem was
fined for calling man "sleik." which
word corresponds to sycophant.
The government accident insurance
department has appropriated a PEN
sion to a man who lost his ripl,t avn, in