Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-12
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across
.G5z.r the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred in
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within \ Week
So just Past.
- SWEDEN.

The volunteer rife clubs of Sweden
nave petitioned the government for
permission to use one rife of the makes
OF the years 1s67-s9 for each ten active
members of the rifle clubs. But the
department of war objects to the prop
'osition on the ground that it might en-.
barass that department in case the
army were to be modified on short
notice.
Bishop Won Scheele, in recent SER
mon, touched upon the custom of hav-
ing laymen baptise children: 1T has
come to such a pass that here and
there in our country baptism is ad-
ministered by people who are neither
authorized nor entitled to do so, re-
,sulting in an injustice to the little
children, who are unable to vindicate
their rights
Miss Topelius, a daughter of the
great bard of that name, wrote shortly
before his death: Life is burden
now. 1t is hard to carry at the same
time ones own personal sorrow as
we'll as the sorrow of our whole peo-
pie. The pain seems to be doubled.
And still there is something soothing
in the situation. A peaceful and pain
less deathbed is q blessing over this
lonely life; such a quiet, almost i'm
perceptible dying-away is like clear
sunset. The faculties of the soul are
unimpaired, his memory even Of the
minutest details is simply incredible.
It is only the strength Of which is pass
ing away as a result of slow fever.
Rnt 1uo not honru IN oil o,,r rr;o
because papa does not suffer-
Eight thousand tons of ice was car
ried to Stockholm by rail in the course
of few days about the middle of
March.
An elderly gentleman in Stockholm
has. developed perfect mania for buy
ing old coats and ripping them up. ex-
pecting to find large sum of money
concealed in them.
The charges for admission to the
swell dinner given in honor of Henrik
81 plate.
A recent fire in Trondhjem indicated
that under certain conditions large
part of the city may be reduced to
ashes on account of the great infam-
inability of the houses; and the city
authorities have realized that they
must order the reconstruction of a
large number of houses in order to
avoid the danger. About hundred
flats and residences were reconstructed
last year, but it looks as though the
changes will be continued at a still
more rapid rate in the future.
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cradle snow fell every day in Febru-
airy excepting two.
A woman at Klaghult gave birth to
a girl baby that had not even the
slightest rudiments of eyes.
Karl A. Tavastjerea, a young and
very popular Finnish poet, is dead.
Though his career was cut short at the
early age of SO years, he has left a
large number of poems and novels, and
a few plays for the stage. His mental
habit was Enthusiastically Finnish,
commingling of wild, mad joy and
brooding sadness.
The riksdag seems to be strongly in
favor of building the proposed Gelli-
ware and Ofoten railway in the ex-
IRENE north. But so far we have re-
.ceived no information about the vote
on this, the most important question
before the present riksdag.
Lieut.. Oscar Won Mentzer, from the
Skane dragon regiment, has advanced
to the rank of captain in the army of
Congo, and at present he is engaged
in an expedition to the sources of the
Nile.
The department of the interior is
anxious to have the Scandinavian gov
.ernments cooperate with the English
government in making photographic
Investigations throughout the northern
seas with a view to acquiring more
knowledge about the life, food, migra-
tions, etc., of the most important kinds
of fish in those waters. The Swedish
Academy of Sciences has already ap-
pointed Profs. o. Peterson and A. VIII
kander and Engineer G. Ekman to in
vestigate the seas adjoining Sweden.
A bazaar given in Stockholm under
the auspices of Princess Ingeborg for
the benefit of the international home
for lady teachers netted over 1000.
A new business firm called the Rus
sian-Scandinavian company will open
offices in the capital cities of Russia
and of the three Scandinavian coun-
tries.
The receipts of the Svea insurance
company from America for the year
1897 were 1886, 900; and the losses paid
to parties in America for said period
amounted to almost $135,00O.
NORWAY.
r. Arrangements for raising half mill
ion dollars for the benefit of the Ma
-tional Theater, the Museum Of Bergen.
the cathedral of Trondhjem, and the
Hansen fund have been successfully
completed.
h The English shipbuilders who are
constructing the cruiser Tordenskjold
for the government of Norway have
wired the Norwegian authorities that
the cruiser will under no circumstances
be appropriated by the government of
England. 49,. H., .ss.s =, ~ e: +. :.
Kristiania will soon have separate
reform school for boys. n IS
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