Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-07
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
@r'nclpai Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Certain parties who bought Indian
corn which had been partly spoiled on
the voyage across the Atlantic, have
made piles of money by turning the
grain into whisky.
The city Of Stockholm will spend
about 100000 for grading new streets
and Improving old ones IN 1898.
Captain Wilson, hero from the
Jeannette Arctic expedition, is spend
ing his closing days in Uppland. He
receives handsome pension from the
government of the United States.
Prof. Stefan Sihlenau, secretary of
state of the department of public in
struction in Roumania, is on a special
VISIT to Sweden to study the public
schools of the country.
The contract by which Dr.. E. Sc.
lander is furnishing anti-toxin serum
Will expire Dec. 81 next; but the con-
tract has been extended for another
year, after which time it is expected
that the government viii take the
matter in hand
A Stockholm business man has sent
several thousand jubilee postal cards
to dealer in postage stamps and cards
? In Nuremberg, Germany.
The city council of Nykoping has re-
solved to build a city lighting plant, at
cost of ST., 1000.
A curious man asked a crowd of
children at Nisby what they knew
about the exploits of Naldemar After
dag at Visby. Not one had any idea
OF what the man had in mind: but
when he asked them about Jericho,
they all seemed to be perfectly at
nome. Which goes to show what kind
OF education is furnished by the public
schools of old Visby.
The total exports of farm products
and provisions for the past year ex-
ceeded the imports of the same articles
by So. 500. 600, which is 81, 200, 900 less
than the corresponding amount for the
previous year.
The export of pork for the past year
was over 100000 pounds, and the
amount received for the same was
nearly $1,000, 900. The export of but
ter for the same period was As, 600, 900
pounds, which brought ST., 100000.
There is a movement on foot among
The saloonkeepers Of Stockholm to IN
ploy only men as bartenders.
Fifty young women OF Karlsborg
have organized themselves into a
young women's christian association.
Sweden imported almost 1000, 900
bushels of wheat in 1897, at cost of
IS, OOO, 900.
The new cars for carrying iron ore
on the Lulea and Gellivara railway
rest on six pairs of wheels, and the
bottoms are movable, so that the con-
tents may be dumped Off by means of
a simple mechanism.
The jubilee gift of the pope to the
king is collection of iithogra phic rep.
reservations of some of the frescoes
painted on the walls and ceiling of a
room in the vatican by Pinturicchis in
the fifteenth century. From purely
artistic point of view this is said to be
one of the most important of the iub BIZ
lee presents.
The Swedish papers speak highly of
the new comedy, The Peoples Coun-
Gill;" written by Gunnar Iceberg. the
Norwegian author. The aim OF the
comedy is largely to r1dicule popular
assem- blies; and the Norwegian stor-
thing was doubtless prominently De-
fore the authors mind when he wrote
this play, which, by the way, does not
compare unfavorably with the come
dies of Aristophanes, the immortal
Athenian playwright.
The publisher of Vesternorrlands
Allehanda was fined S13. so for leaving
out the date and place of publication
from an extra which was issued in
great haste at the time of the breaking
out of the Greek l,rkish war.
Captain Otto Sverdrup, the COM
mander of the Fran after the depart
ure of hansen, was interviewed in St..
Petersburg by representative of the
Berlin Loca!anzeiger, and expressed
himself thus on the possible fate of
Andree: 10 me it seems very ques-
tionable whether AnGree has reached
the north pole. or even gone farther
north than his predecessors But l
must say that think Andree is still
alive. No news can be expected from
him until next year. AS to the shrieks
heard, they evidently had nothing to
do with Andree. I think they came
from birds" This latter assumption
+ was fully substantiated by the failure
of the Victoria expedition to Spitz-
bergen to discover any human beings,
and the correctness of the views of
Sverdrup on the origin of those shrieks
gives greater weight to his belief that
Andree is still alive and that the world
may hear from him next year.
Z" NORWAY.
Norway imports large quantities of
barrel hoops while she might as we'll
supply her own demand.
" A young man in Gud brandsdalent took
Il n social glass too much Of an evening.
He was able to walk home at the close
OF the spree. however. Dut then his
ss conceptions seem to have been COM
pletely reversed. For he went into
the stable, united the horse and drove
him out into the yard, put the halter
4 on himself and spent the balance of
B#8 the n ipht like = frOs,6 old borso rTlo