Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-02-15

motor cars and ten trailers, each of
which will have seats for sixteen pas
sengers and standing room for eight
The passenger cars on the railway
between Kristiania and Hamar will be
lighted by electricity.
A syndicate has bought the Evenstad
waterfalls in Frolapd, and proposes to
build factory for the production Of
chemicals.
Not even in Nordland was the cold
severe enough to keep the snow on the
ground in January.
Ex-Premier Steen has officiated as
sponsor at the baptism of a great
grandson, who was named Karl Jo-
names Steen
The United States government is
very popular around Roros just now;
for in the vicinity of this town several
thousand dollars worth of reindeer
moss was bought for the reindeer
which now are on their way to Alaska.
A stock company is organizing to
build floating dock at Bratteklev,
Arendal.
1t IS just ten years since the Saliva
ton army began work in Norway.
man in Kristiania has been arrest
ed as wheelbarrow-maniac, for he
has stolen dozens of wheelbarrows,
but nothing else.
The city government of Trondhjem
may offer the buildings of the local
technical school to the projected ma
tional technical school in case the lat
ter is located in said city. The build
ings are worth about $135, 900.
!, recent storm bent the iron spire of
the Trondhiem cathedral, broke a.
large number of windows, and even
upset wagons moving along the street.
1t may be we'll to remember that
} even the conservative Norwegian mem
bers of the union committee failed to
agree with the Swedish members of
the committee. So far all Norwegian
parties seem to be in the same boat.
} Jacob Sverdrup, the present minis
ter for ecclesiastical affairs and public
. instruction, will doubtless be appoint
ed to succeed Hyoslef as bishop of the
see of Bergen.
| Bjornstjerne Bjornson has written
) letter to Emile lola, the beginning of
which reads thus: "Most honored mas
ter:-How l envy you this! How glad
ly would have been in your place!
{ How gladly would have rendered my
country and humanity a service so
, great as the one you are now render
+ ing both!''
The prohibitionists have practically
organized the city of Kristiansand into
'blocks of fve'' for the great saloon
battle of March 2s.
Otto ALBERT, governor of Bratsberg
amt, was knocked down by a runaway
horse on the street in Skien, and died
: a few hours later. He was sc years of
: age.
DENMARK.
w. j. Hanson has passed both theo-
= logical and medical examinations.
This record is said to have only one
= parallel in the modern history of Den
I mark.
The Kielerzeitung, German paper,
has protested in we'll written edi-
= torial against the proposition to de-
- prive the parents of their rights as
such if they send their grown children
to Denmark to study Danish. The
: paper takes this position on the ground
|
hostility among the Danes as to defeat
the purpose of those jealous German
izers who are pushing it.
Siam, the first steamer of the new
! East Asiatic company, was launched
: at Flensburg, Jan. 10. It is twice as
large as the Thingvalla steamer Island.
Kristelight Dagblad, the aggressive
organ of the Inner Mission people, ad-
;, vocates special work among the stu
), dents of the normal schools. and sug-
gests that suitable man might be en-
: gagged to devote his whole time to that
branch of the propaganda. Politiken
improves this opportunity by taking a
fresh fall out of the Inner Mission
y movement, using such expressions as
: IAN impudent invasion made by re-
. ligious savages,' - 1.-THE Inner Mission Is
. more greedy than the shark 1.-THE
mission humbug," etc.
Prof. van Mehren has retired from
;, his chair of Hebrew in the university
! on account of old age. For long
series of years he conducted the exam
r nations in Hebrew, and all theologi,
= cal candidates had to pass his cross
: fire. On the occasion of his with.
drawal from active service the papers
are reviving an incident which dates
back good many years. A candidate
= hesitated somewhat before attempting
to translate a certain sentence; but the
!. professor encouraged him thus: "Why,
= really. this is not difficult; it may be
translated in twelve different WAYS. ~
The student now took courage and
translated the passage without dis
Z turbiQg a nerve or a muscle in the
Z physiognomy of the professor. But
when the student had finished and
stopped, the professor said. "Now
there are thirteen ways It is scarce
~ necessary to say that the student
3 failed.
The government is said to be inclined
to accommodate number of importers
. and shipowners who are anxious to
have the Danish colors represented by
a warship in the Indian and Pacific
q oceans, and the frigate Fyen, the most
q baantifn shin IN tho novpo ~ non,.1