Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-17
NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
II the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred in
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within \ Week
So just Past.
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Sweden is going to haye $40, 900 pa
Vlllon at the Paris worlds fair in 1900.
A monument will be unveiled at
STANCE bro on the 40Odth anniversary OF
great battle which occurred at that
place.
Prot. Nordenskjold still believes that
Andree will return, his chances being
better than those of Nansen and Jo-
hansen when they left the Fran.
observation-disclosures powerful mis-.
sionary society. has esta blished a
printing Office in Asmara, Africa, where
Bibles and other books are published
under the auspices of a Swede; and the
Mission Friends are running another
printing Office at Londe, Congo where
newspaper is published in the native
language, the typesetting being done
by dozen of Congo negroes.
There was slight frost the night of
July 16 in some localities in southel n
Sweden. but the damage to the crops
was insignificant.
The Skonvik lum boring company has
established fund of So, 700 for the aid
of old and needy employees.
The Swedish tourist club has issued
its sixteenth annual guide book. 1t
contains over one hundred finely exc
cuted views, and the text is printed in
English, Swedish, German and French.
Carl J. Kullen bergh is preparing a
biography of Prof. Andree.
About $4,000, 900 acres of the terri
tory of Sweden is covered with tim ber
The Salvation army of Sweden is
thinking of starting colony in Norr-
land.
Prof. Guldberg, from Norway, closed
his address at the Scientists congress
IN Stockholm with these words: ''Swe-
den, thou land of memories! How
often has thy glorious history made
our hearts beat with Joy! Strife and
war between the peoples of the North
only brought weakness. We are rela-
tives, mem bers of the same family.
AS children, we enforce justice by
means of the fist; when we grow older
we use the mouth (cheers); but when
we become sensible we face the stu
alton differently. We learn to love
each other. The century is drawing
to close, and may we then, without
grudge and pusillanimousness, look up
to our noble Swedish brother who
stands there with his traditions and
his faithful, peaceful work. Long live
Sweden! And well met next timer
The address was followed by a storm
of applause.
Prof. Karl Jungstedt, D. Ph., in
structor at the Stockholm high school,
has just written very meritorious
history of the Swedish language.
The sea serpent has again been seen
in the notorious Storsjon. About ten
feet of it was seen above water. 1t
had immense ears which it tapped up
and down. The man who saw it went
for his gun, but when he returned the
serpent was gone.
The Motala iron works has turned
out $50 locomotives since 1862.
Prof. 6. Adlers has excavated a
number of burial grounds in Indal,
Norrland. He found a large number
of urns and human bones, proving that
this valley was inhabited thousands of
years ago.
A temperance man at Dial asked the
minister for permission to use the
school house for non-partisan TEN.
perance lecture. But the request was
refused. Unfortunately, the man was
rich, and he bought a piece of ground
close by the church, on which he built
public hall, where any subject may
be discussed in decent manner.
The program of the summer school
in Lund this season includes course
in about twenty different games which
are suitable for school children.
Mrs. s. 0. Ekvall, of Linkoping at
tended series of violent revival meet
ings last winter, and came to the con-
clusion that she had sinned against
the Holy Ghost. Her religious troubles
grew upon her until she finally threw
herself down before a railway loco
motive and was cut in two, her death
being instantaneous.
August Strindberg has just put the
finishing touches to the second part OF
twin drama called ITO Damascus -
In this production may be found the
ideas treated in "Inferno'' and THE
Legends" but in a new and startling
form. The author is still living in
Lund; but he will soon remove to Ber-
lin, where much literary work has
been mapped out for him. Part of this
work is the preparation of a special
''Strindberg edition" of one of the
leading German magazines, contain
ing selection from his former writ
ings, and new novel written during
this summer. This novel will also ap-
pear in Swedish just before Christ
mas. The Norwegian painter, Edward
Munich, has been engaged to draw il
. lustrations for the special edition.
= NORWAY.
Wellman's North Pole expedition re-
turned to Vardo July 16, after an un-
! successful attempt to force its way
through the ice. The expedition
stopped long enough for coaling, and
then left to make a fresh attempt to
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