Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-03-29
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
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.

Three thousand dollars was paid at
q public auction in Stockholm for a
gilt leather tapestry from the 18th GEN.
fury. 1t is supposed to have been the
property of the Wrangel family.
successful surgical operation per-
formed upon lady at Jonkoping re-
vealed 2o5 stones IN her gall bladder.
The largest one being of the size of a
hazel nut.
Bernhard Meier of Trelleborg cele
brated his golden wedding with his
third wife. The groom is 81, his wife
u years old.
The saloon problem has been cutting
wide swath IN Malmo politics. The
city will have about 80 retail liquor
stores for the next three years.
The. new business of the Swedish
life insurance companies for the year
1897 was over Sl2, 900, 900, and the losses
paid aggregated $780,. 00O
An unusually large proportion of the
farms on the plain" of Skanc have
been rented out this season. Many
farmers would rather rent out their
land than be bothered with exacting
servants and luctuating markets.
A new fisheries museum will be es-
tablished in Gothen burg.
Fl. G. Simmons, who is to accompany
Sverdrup's Arctic expedition as official
botanist. IS 80 years old. He will be
the only Swedish member of the expe-
dition, and he was selected upon the
recon mendation of Prof. Nathorst
who himself is going to hunt for the
North Pole next summer
In Norrbotten the farmers refuse to
take cattle to the public fairs because
the cattle for which prizes were award
ed on former occasions were so thor
oughly branded that it took months
before the wounds healed up.
A ca blegram dated Berlin, March 30,
states that Theodore Lerner, supported
partly by the state, partly by private
parties, will start next May on the
steamer Heligoland in search of An
dree.
Two new brick yards will be opened
up in Kalmar Ian next summcr-one
at Smedby, the other at Berga. Their
annual production will be five million
bricks. besides tiles and other ma
terial.
Several Swedish banks hAve declared
dividend of ~ per cent to the stock
holders for the year 1897.
Prince Eugen. who is stopping at
Florence, Italy, has been confined to
his bed on account of an attack of in
huenza.
The French institute has awarded a
prize of $3.50 to Prof. Jakob Erikson of
Stockholm for an essay on botany
Sixty prominent men in Stockholm
have signed a telegram of encourage.
meht to Emile lola.
The Morning Post, the organ of the
foreign department of the governme Mt
of England, takes an optimistic view
of Scandinavian politics, predicting
that Sweden and Norway will settle
the union controversy by compromise.
A Miss Grondahl has lived II years
In the same rooms in Stockholm.
The Nordenskjold-Ek Klondyke ex-
petition left Gothenbo~g March 20.
Prof. Nordenskjold is going to stop in
Ottawa, Canada, long enough to give
several scientific lectures.
The Bergvik and Ala numbering
company, which is operating four saw
mills, gave a surplus of S27O, 900 in 1897.
A dividend of per cent was declared
and still about S225, 900 was added to
the capital stock.
The price of good mich cow on the
Skane plain is about $50. and the prices
of farm horses range from $3.50 to 5000
Young pigs command a price of 1917
cents a pound.
Four women died of cancer in the
course of one month in Moheda parish
Sven Hedin, the great explorer. has
returned from his famous lecturing
trip through Europe. He may come to
America, but wants to have talk
with Fridtjof Nansen first.
The new ironclad Thor was launched
March at Stockholm in the presence
of the king and a number of other
prominent men. The ironclad was
.christened by the duchess of Vester-
sgotland, who broke the traditional bot
tie of champagne against its bow. say
ing: Good luck to you, ironclad Thor. ~
Wenden's artillery regiment, the
most expensive in the Swedish army,
cost the government Sl90, 600 for the
year 1896.
NORWAY.
The young peoples societies in Nor
way have neglected religion to a
marked degree, while dancing and
merry making has been their chief at
traction. Many thoughtful people be-
gin to realize that those societies might
have accomplished more if their work
had been more serious This senti-
ment is expressed in a newspaper ar
ticle by Johan Bojer, a man who him
self belongs to the modern school. He
says: beneficial as the work of the
young peoples societies has been, it
must be admitted that ethical and re-
ligious questions have received dis
proportionately small attention. One
of the reasons is perhaps this, that for
a long time it was considered manly to
be free thinker. and that it indicated
"a bright head. That notion is already
ont OF date. The most prominent of
the so-called free-thinlers in the gre at
world have landed either in the mon
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