Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-23
potatoes to sell plant those varieties
that yield the biggest crop per acre.

mOntnS OF the present year amounted
to about $1s, O00, 600, against SIS. 500, 600
for the same period last year. During
the same period the exports rose from
$19, 1000, 900 to $4,000, 900.
Drift-net fishing off Aalesund has
given very handsome returns. and it is
admitted that in this particular branch
untold wealth has been lost in the
past.
The export of seaweed ashes from
Jaederen for the past season amounts
to $4,000.
Domestic animals are now being in
sured by company which has RISKS
amounting to $4,000 scattered all
through the county.
A home for old. deserving servant
girls is contemplated in Kristiania.
there being already $4,000 available
for the purpose.
The municipality of Kristian:a will
from January next undertake to re-
move all garbage and keep the premi-
ses of its patrons in wholesome sani-
tary condition. At present. private
corporations are doing the work, and
may continue to perform it, but it is
thought that the superior facilities
possessed by the city, and the more
thorough renovation which it prom
Uses will give it practical monopoly
of the business in the city.
Out of total of 2.9O2 vessels which
in 1896 sailed under the Norwegian flag,
1872 were lost at sea.
The board of directors of the Norslle
Kreditbank. one of the largest finan-
cial institutions of the capital city,
will cele brate the 40th anniversary Of
the bank by distributing among its
functionaries as many thousand
crowns.
DR.. Siguard Ibsen is to edit a new
weekly soon to be published by stock
company. Among its regular contrib
utors may be mentioned Henrik 1bsen,
Alexander Kjelland, Jonas Lie,
Bjornstierne Bjornson and Prof. Saes.
flying its purpose to sound in no uncer-
tain way the buring questions OF the
day at home and abroad.
The thirteen survivors of the crew of
the ship Seladon, which nearly two
years ago was wrecked off the coast of
a small island in the South Pacific
ocean, arrived recently at Stavanger,
where the vessel and all of the men
belonged The ship had long been
given up as lost with all on board, and
the unexpected rescue of the greater
part of the crew, in connection with
the sutferings which they had expert
enced, made their arrival an occasion
of most enthusiastic welcome from the
entire city.
DENMARK.
The largest circulation of any peri
odical in Denmark is enjoyed by Illus
treret Familie Journal, which has over
100, 900 subscribers. Next to this is
Ugens Nyheder, with about 10000 sub.
scribers, while several others have
about 50, 900 each. The latest weekly
dispenser of good reading is called
Frem, which, on the strength of its
prospectus alone. in the course of only
two weeks has reached the respectable
circulation of 20, 900 copies. The paper
is popular scientific journal, richly
illustrated.
Mr.. F.. Staal, whose lectures and
newspaper articles may be remem bered
by many readers, takes his American
countrymen to task for not writing
often enough to friends and relatives
at their old home. He also claims
that much good money is lost to Den
mark by Danish Americans dying in
testate and leaving nothing by which
to identify their natural heirs in the
old country.
The raising of wheat is declining all
over the country. but particularly in
the islands, where less grain of all
kinds is grown now than in 1883. In
Upland, on the other hand, the area
devoted to grain has increased by three
Danish square miles during the last
eight years. Sugar beets also show G.
greatly increased acreage, a condition
partly due to the growth of the beet
sugar industry and partly to the en-
largement of the dairy business.
On the average, one square mile of
waste land is annually being planted
to trees.
The state budget, as submitted to
the legislature. balances at about ST.
GOO, 600. The heaviest expenditure next
to payments on the national debt, and
disbursements connected Herewith, is
about 50, $50, 900 which the department
of war has planned to spend. The
navy needs about 81, 900, 900, while the
departments of the interior, of justice,
of finance, and of church and educa-
ton each expects to get along with
about 81. 100, 600. The civil list of the
king is charged with $270, 900, and roy
atty besides with less than $50, 0oo
The most productive source of revenue
is indirect taxation, which will yield
about $12, 500, 900, the direct taxes being
estimated at $780, OO One item
of receipts which CRATES somewhat on
American ears is $27O, 900 expected as q
surplus of the state lottery.
OF the Danish national debt, about
thirty million dollars are held abroad,
most of it drawing ) and 81 per cent
interest.
At one of the Offices of the state rail-
ways in Copenhagen about $50 was
misplaced, and as two of those who
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