Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-04-20
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND,
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
tns Old Countries About the
North SEQ Within q Week
Or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.


of 4, 1885,
The total attendance at the public
high schools in 1896 was ii. 1911, and the
expenses of the government per stu
dent were S6o.05. The total attend
a1ce at the common schools was 724,
2o3, and the expenses in this case were
only SO per pupil In other words,
high school student costs the state
more than ten times as much as COM
mon school pnpil.
The teacher of a sewing school near
Strcngnas told her pupils to bring all
the ragged stockings at home to the
school the next day. Only a few
.obeyed. mamma in most cases having
said that there were no ragged stock
lngs at her house. The teacher at
once ordered the whole class to pull off
their stockings This work was not
pleasant, but the order had to be
-obcyed, and there was found to be just
one pair of stockings that h I'D no holes
in them. The rest of that day was
spent in mending stockings, and not a
single one had a hole in it when the
class was dismissed. The papers just
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teal school work.
When person expects death, death
wiz: come the sooner-that is the theo-
~. But kjersti Person, q widow of
East Espinge parish. found the reverse
of this to be true. Years ago she pre-
pared her coffin, in which she expected
soon to be laid to rest. Not much! The
years came and went, and among the
events which Father Time leaves in
his wake was a fire at the house of
kiersti Person. This fire, among
other FRANKS, gobbled up her coffin.
Sill she chung to life for quite while;
but few days ago the long-expected
guest came and carried her away. She
came close up to her s0th mile-post.
Fortune favors the brave" said the
old Romans Three hundred Stock
holm girls have found this to be true.
The whole affair may be given in a
very few words. The telephone oper-
ato7s had to work very hard. and re-
ce:ved all the way from IS to SIG per
month. They agreed that this was too
small pay. and the we'll drilled little
army went out on a strike. The en-
plOyers declared in words strong and
digultied and sonorous that no advance
in wages could be made. But the
strikers remained fairly firm, and the
troc bic caused by the new operators
made life such burden to the employ
ers that they threw up the sponge, and
agreed to an advance of 31.35 month.
:. number of very prominent Swed-
ish and Norwegian business men have
had conference at Stockholm for the
purpose of discussing the fate of the
trade between the two countries. They
succeeded in agreeing upon draft for
new set of tariff laws, and their prop
osltion has been forwarded to the gov
>ernments of Sweden and Norway
Tie government is preparing bill
providing for a thoroughly systematic
treatment of, tuberculosis at the public
workhouses.
The legislature of Finland has taken
steps to push the extension of the Tor
nea railway to the boundary line of
Sweden, and a Swedish paper asks:
Who will reach the line frst?'' It
has been supposed that the Swedes
will get there before the Finlanders.
Fraenkel and Svedenborg, who are
pole expedition, made their second trial
trip IN company with Lachambre on
March %. They assembled from Paris
at 1880 q. NJ, and FIVE hours later land
ed at st. Quentin, about 80 English
miles northeast of Paris.
The king has forwarded a bill to the
ril5sdag appropriating $11 1000 for ascer-
tanning the most suitable location for
the proposed government railroad from
Geliiyara to the boundary line of Nor
way.
Frankel and Svedenborg made their
third ascension at Paris March -.
The trip lasted only about ~ hours;
but the greatest height attained was
4. 600. and the balloon landed so miles
from Paris
The king and the queen left Stock
holm for Christiania March 26.
OF the independent church associa-
tons the Mission Covenant has built
ISL churches, the Baptists 321, and the
Methodists 12O. Those three associa-
tons raise about $500, 600 year for
expenses.
NORWAY
The property known as Kield Stub
<Gade No. l. Christiania. has been sold
for $50, 600.
Johan Vibe, author and critic, is dead.
The Idun Life Insurance Company
paid out over $50, 900 in 1896.
The total amount of insurance in
force in the Storebrand Fire Insurance
Company at the beginning of the year
was $40, COO, 600.
The following towns voted on the sa-
loon question March &c: Hamar,
KonGsberg, Halmestrand. Horton,
every one OF which sustained the sa-
looms.
Fridjot Nansen and wife, upon their
arrival in Paris, were received by Pres
ident Favre and wife.
On a tenant farm called Teigoin, in
From, Gudbrandsdalen, lives widow
who was born in 1895. Her husband
served in the war of 1914, and she still
remembers many incidents from that
time. She can do needle work without
glasses, and her mind is unusually act