Willmar tribune., 1897-07-20
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAND.
principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
So just Past.

the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
STOCKHOLM EXPOSITION
The tourist and sport building con-
talns large pictorial representations of
the chief pleasure resorts in Sweden,
the landscape paintings alone having
cost upwards of 1000.
AS to sculpture, Sweden is far better
represented than the other Scandi-
navian countries. NORWAY has not
single work of real rank" while the
representation of Denmark is fairly
good.
One OF the most interesting as we'll
as instructive features of the exposi-
ton of the city of Stockholm is cross
section of street, natural size. The
section is supposed to have been made
across Norrlandsgatan where it crosses
Hamngatan. The depth of the cut is
~ feet, and shows the gas pipes, water
mains, sewer, telephone cables, cleo
trio light cables, etc.
The beer brewing industry is repre-
sented in very substantial way by
the leading Scandinavian breweries;
beer is sold at a large nun Der of places
on the grounds; and beer flows in tor
rents down the throats of a thirsty hu-
manity. In fact, King Gam brinus is
one of the big guns at the Stockholm
expo.
The Stockholm exposition happens
to occur at an important historical
1of ~ L
which Sweden, Norway and Denmark
We're united, was ratified July 20, 1897
800 years ago-by Queen Margareta,
1.-THE Semiramis of the North
The exhibits. buildings. in short
everything on the exposition grounds
has been insured against fire for about
$50, 900.
The Bodafors Furniture Manufacture
ing company, of Bodators, Smaland, is
Scandinavian countries. The company
has pavilion of it's own at the expo
sition. The chief attraction of the
company, however, is Japanese pa
CODA, in which practically every object
is made out of imitation BAN boo, which
was made OF white birch.
SWEDEN.
The king and the crown prince at
tended the opening of the international
congress of journalists June 25th.
Queen Victoria's jubilee was not
overlooked even in Stockholm. The
English minister to Sweden, Mr. Paken-
ham, invited the king and the crown
to Eno l.
English address in honor of Queen Vic.
toria, and Swedish and English airs
were discoursed by band.
Gustav Froding, one of the most
gifted living poets in Sweden. has writ
ten rather sensational letter for pub
lication. He begins by frankly admit
ting that he has suffered from alco-
holism," and Of late has had "relapses
into the same disease" The drink
habit has become so strong with him
that he has come to the conclusion that
he must make PLEDGE But no cx-
listing temperance organization strikes
his fancy. Being freethinker, he
will have nothing to do with religions
or semi-religious exercises. Nor does
he want to attend such quasi COM
pulsory entertainments as many tenn
perance organizations are IN the habit
of getting up from time to time. But
his most serious objection to the exist
ing organizations is that they require
total abstinence for life, while he
wants to sign the pledge only for a
simited period of time. At the close of
his article he practically advertises for
two other persons who, like himself,
will pledge their honor to abstain from
the use of liquors for a certain time.
Such pledge may also include tobacco
as we'll as intoxicants, but that will be
optional. From what can be seen from
the article, Mr.. Froding does not pro-
pose to start society in the general
sense of that word, for the personal
pledge is the only feature of the whole
plan.
The newspapers give an exceedingly
fattering account of the concert given
by the American union of Swedish
singers. The concert took place at
Flora the atre, Malmo, June %, and a To-
cal paper says: I'VE did not know what
to admire the most, the unusually rich.
clear, buoyant tones, the charminglv
sonorous basses. the exquisite effect of
the ensemble, which in later numbers
scored veritable triumphs, or the su-
perb leadership of John &. Ortengren.
At any rate, everything conspired to
produce such bewitchingly beautiful
concord of sweet sounds, and such a
degree of technical perfection that the
audience was fairly glutting upon the
anticipation of the continuation of the
concert" The same paper singled out
the two singing clubs from Chicago as
equal to, if net superior to, any and
all quartets which at present are Civ
ing concerts in Sweden. Upon the
whole, it is hard to see how the old
country papers could have given the
Swedish American singers more credit
than has actually been done.
Andree was doing we'll up to the
middle of June. The voyage from
Tromso, Norway, to Danes island took