Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-09-28
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes FROM Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
principal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
So just Past.
SWEDEN.


100 for the fall semester.
E. G. Mirus, German engineer, ap-
piled for naturalization papers. but the
king refused to grant the application.
A Vexio paper claims that 6S menu
bers Of the rilssdag will be decorated
with the order of Vasa at the kings
Jubilee.
While the Astors were visiting Stock
holm, an expensive parasol belonging
to Mrs. Aston fell out of the carriage
on the street. A workingman picked
1t up and ran after the carriage, inter-
cepting it at the Djurgarden bridge.
Mrs Astor was SO pleased with the
services of the man that she handed
him so kroner upon receiving her par
asol.
A wide awake Swedish firm has Sc
cured the right to cut logs on the
Plethora river in Russia, and negotia-
lions are pending for the purchase of a
site for sawmill in Vatso, Norway.
The company already has lumber
yards IN several seaport towns on both
sides OF the Mediterranean Sea. Thus
the course Of the business of the COM
pany will be largely as follows: The
logs will be cut in Russia, RATED down
the river Plethora to the \sea, carried
by vessels to Vadso, sawed into lum-
Der, and the lumber carried to the
Mediterranean countries and Sold
A new steamship company will soon
begin to carry passengers and mer-
chandise between Stockholm, Boston
and St. Peters burg.
Harvest hands were scarce in the
southern part Of Sweden. and able
bodied men received from IS to 20 cents
a day. and women from 40 to As cents.
Many artisans left the towns to work
in the harvest field.
One hundred and eighteen rabbits
were shot by a royal hunting party on
the island of Hveen. King Oscar him.
self killed fourteen and Prince Eugen
five of the animals.
The removal of a burial mound in
Qva:nDy, Husie parish, brought to light
some very interesting antiquarian rel
les. In the middle of the bottom of
the mound was seyen-foot coffin, con-
sistlng of an excavated oak log. It
contained the skeleton of a man. the
head pointing to the south. On the
right side of the skeleton was a broad
twelve-inch bronze dagger, the form
of which points to the earliest bronze
age of Sweden. The work of excavat-
ing the mound was superintendent by
a representative of the academy of
sciences. This gives a high degree of
probability to the statement that the
find dates back some $500 years, or
about 1900 B. C.
The wholesale price of sugar has
been raised from ~ to ~ cents per
pound.
The last ticket to the gre at exposi-
ton lottery was sold Aug. 81.
The city of Gothenborg will soon
have a brand new lying-in hospital,
which is to cost $4,000
Prof. Tammann, of Dorpat, Germany,
has visited Stockholm for the purpose
of Investigating the apparatuses and
other means by which the famous ]. j.
Berzelius accomplished 50 much in the
line of chemistry and metallurgy. But
Prof. Tammann has found that said
op POI 0ooSNo 0AS sCA POOAAy CoIcO 1OTs
besides being scattered in different
buildings.
On Aug. 25 the first million kroner
(S270,O00) was completed as admission
fees to the Stockholm exposition. The
last krone of the first million was paid
by j. Lundberg, a public school teach
er from Lund; and the first krone of
the second million was paid by Mr. A.
Shibbier from Copenhagen. Each of
these received a silver cup with ap-
propriate inscriptions, also a season
ticket to the exposition.
A romantic couple were recently be-
trothed on the summit of the noted
Syltoppen mountain, and the happy
rite was announced to the awe-inspir-
ing congregation of the neighboring
mountains. The contracting parties
must have been ''Scandinavians" in
the literal sense of that term, the an
nouncement written down in the reg.
lister at the top of the mountain being
a curious mixture of Swedish and Nor
wegian.
The French squadron conveying
1GCSluSuV duIC W 0uSSld VOuCucu ~
Visby, Gothland. The military au-
thorities at the latter place happened
to have no gunpowder on hand, and
they were at their wits end, the French
cruisers being ready to salute the
Swedish colors flying above the for.
tress. By a streak of good luck, how.
ever, powder was secured at the criti-
cal moment, and the cannons belched
forth their greetings by 81 shots. which
were promptly answered by the
French.
NORWAY.
For years past many newspapers OF
the three Scandinavian countries have
used K instead of the old Oh in such
names as Kristiania, Kristiansand, etc.
But a number of conservative people
cling to the time-honored Oh. The
city government of Kristiania has
dealt hard blow to the Oh by resolv.
ing that only the new spelling shall be
used in all the departments. of the city
administration.
The conservatives seem to be fight
ing chiefly on the defensive during the
present campaign, and the conserva-