Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-07
as boomerang among the laboring

| worm-eaten and rotten as to be practi-
! cally unseaworthy. But there seems
to be no lack of dare-devils who cheer
fully risk their lives on such vessels.
And many of them are doing well,
some of them even very we'll. The
bark Foosness, commanded by Captain
Johan Olsen, is one of the latter class
In the middle of June she carried a
| cargo of merchandise to- the Farce
| islands, where she remained three
weeks: then proceeded to Archangel,
! northern Russia, whence she carried a
cargo OF tar to London; and fna ally
loaded up with coke for Stavanger, ar
irving at the latter place after an alb
sence of four and half months. Not
the least loss or injury was sustained
on these trips, and the bark, though 20
years old, made faster time than the
average new frst-class sailing vessels
, covering the same distance during the
| same season.
Miss Clara Hoist is preparing for a
disputation for degree of doctor of
philosophy. She is the first Norwe-
gian woman who ever entered that
field.
knud Hamsun, the author, will spend
the winter IN Kristiansand
! Some of the lamp posts on the streets
in Stavanger have been wound with
barbed Wire to prevent the children
from elm bing them and breaking the
lamps.
A man attending a religious meeting
in Lilleherred, on his way home late at
| night, lost the foot-path and fell down
| precipice. He broke one of his legs
and was unable to proceed. His shouts
! were heard by some one in the neigh
| borhood, but nothing was done to as
certain whence the shouts came. Four
days later wood chopper happened to
find the unfortunate man, who now
was SO exhausted that he could not
even shout for help.
A young man at Harstad lost his life
| by cutting his hand in attempting to
pound cork down the necis of a bot
| tie.
The large shoals of big herring which
usually approach the coasts sufficiently
near to be caught by seines are caus-
ing much anxiety by their absence this
| season. Some distance out in the
! ocean there is IN abundance of herring
but they seem inclined 10 remain where
they are.
Seventy-eight out of ia is the num-
Der of liberal mem bers of the next
| storthing. In other words, what NAV
be called the national party of Nor
way will not only have a plain, but a
two-third majority in the national leg
! islature. This will not only enable
that party to pass general laws, but to
change the constitution itself.
Thirty-seven different persons are
anxious to fill the vacant position of
editorin-chief of Folkevennen.
An old man lost his life in an unusual
way at Sylvander's distillery in Moss.
Instead of cleaning out a large still by
means of hose, he lowered ladder
into the still and climbed down. But
he was overcome by the carbonic acid
gas which accumulated on the bottom
| of the still, and when he was discoy-
cred half an hour later he was so far
gone that his life could not be saved.
The new electric railway in Kris
| tiania is practically completed, but
tie rolling stock will not be ready be-
fore March l. The operation of this
line will require dozen motors and
! an equal number of trailers.
The Norwegian-born pretender to the
name and a part of the wealth of the
Moltke family in Denmark has met
with decided setback. The church
! book Of Asko contains the following:
ION Dec. Is, 1927, was baptized in the
Strudshavn church a boy who received
the name Ludwig Sverre, born in Co.
penhagen about Is years ago. The
date of his birth cannot be definitely
| ascertained. His father is said to be
! Ludwig Martin Forwald. a language
teacher, by whom said boy, Ludwig
| Svcrre, is claimed to have been adopt
| ed. His mothers name is not known
| to certainty" This goes a good ways
towards proving that the above men
toned boy, the father of the present
pretender, was not son of the Moltke
| who died in 1920; and. on the other
hand, no intimation is made that his
mother was the wife of said Moltle.
The committee whose duty it is to
examine into the physical qualifica-
tions of the fresh recruits, has struck
rare case in Copenhagen. A young
man persisted in demanding excuse
from service, and then pressed for rea-
sons answered that he had "a tail -
| He had to turn around, and there it
was, sticking out about an inch! He
complained that this extenuation of the
orthordox candel appendage would
| ache when he remained in sitting
posture for some length of time. and
he was forthwith excused from mill
tary service. The physicians present
stated that this phenomenon is not so
/ rare as people commonly believe.
Neither Bech Olsen, the Danish
champion wrestler. nor Carl Norbeck,
the Norwegian champion, has ever
been thrown in a public wrestling
match. No wonder that the people
look forward with unusual interest to
the combat of the two which will take
place in Copenhagen after New Years.
The Dane weighs 260 pounds, the
Norwegian hardly 200 pounds. The