Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-11-09

VAACoC CRANKY 11GLlc animals seem TO OF
fer a new field for business enterprise.
There will be no more public offer
ings in the state churches of Trond-
hjeW.
About one thousand people attended
a unique musical tournament in Skien,
the main features of the program being
competitive violin music, the perform
ance of national dances and the decla-
nation Of poetry composed on the spur
of the moment (stevjing). Olav Hurum,
from Seljord, though 80 years old, par
ticipated in the dance and was award
ed an extraordinary prize. The girls
also received prizes for dancing.
The Norwegians, in time past, have
had the reputation of being people of
fundamentally sound and strong teeth.
This merit was to be found partly in
the nature of the food itself, but chiefly
in the universal use of the so-called
"hat-bread," or thin, dry, hard waters
made of oatmeal and water. Like so
many other venerable ancient institu-
lions, ''hat-bread' has been ruthlessly
swept away by modern customs, rye
bread of different makes and grades
taking its place. The change perhaps
involves a saving of time, for it takes a
mighty amount of vigorous chewing to
make up square meal of 'flat-bread."
But what is gained in the shape Of
time is, alas, lost in the shape of teeth.
dentist Of extensive practice says the
change in the teeth of the people in
the past two decades is simply astound-
ing. Very many children have tooth
ache before they reach their teens;
quite a number of them have full sets
of false teeth before they have COM
mon school educatiOn; and teeth are
often looked upon by their owners as
nuisance to be gotten rid of, the sooner
the better. According to the same au-
thority, the general use of sour rye
bread is chiefly responsible for the de-
cay OF the teeth of the rising genera
ton. Bjornstjerne Bjornson and
others are advocating the appointment
of dentists to inspect and repair the
teeth of the school children so many
times year, and the proposition seems
to be favorably received, especially in
the cities. The city children suffer the
most, but even in the remotest rural
districts the teeth of the present gen.
Grafton are much inferior to those of
previous generations.
The snow was two feet deep on the
mountains around Tromso the 12th of
October.
There are fourteen canneries in Sta
vanger, and syndicate of Norwegian
Americans will build two new ones.
The increase of the number of school
children in Kristiania is about 1900 a
year.
The next international peace con-
gress will be held in Kristiania in the
summer of 1899.
Your stamp fiend does not spare even
little Norway. At public auction in
Kristiania, 1873 out of a total of 225
postage stamps were sold for $3.50.
The highest price paid for any single
stamp was 1884,
DENMARK.
The railways will carry bicycles as
baggage in the future, as we'll as in the
past; but henceforth only the wheels
will come under this rule--not the
lamps, air pumps, registers etc., as was
the custom heretofore.
A Copenhagen business man who oc-
casionally tempts the goddess of for
tune by gambling, met a couple of
smooth acquaintance in restaurant
one evening. He was also introduced
to a man he did not know, and who
was designated as a ''man from Jyl-
land" One of the gamblers took the
business man aside and suggested that
the latter play game of billiards with
the "Jyde," who was recommended as
a man with mighty long purse, and
the business man said he would paw
the man who made the proposition a
few dollars in case the clyde" could be
induced to take the game The clyde"
was only too willing to play, and the
first stake was $50. The business man
won the first game; but soon his luck
was reversed, and. in the course of the
next two hours he lost over seven thou
sand dollars. Afterwards he found out
that his acquaintance had conspired
with the alleged clyde" to fleece him,
and the fact that he was thus outwitted
provokes him more than the loss of the
filthy seven thousand dollars.
The city council of Copenhagen re-
solved to tax the new telephone COM
pany $4,000 a year, but Bardenfleth,
the minister of the interior, has grant
ed the telephone company a franchise
which exempts the company from tax
alton. An interesting lawsuit is ex-
pected to settle the dispute.
The municipal government of Copen-
hagen demands new loan of s., 600, 600.
Mundus-the Worlds the proud
name of a new insurance company for
children. The capital stock is $3.50, 900,
and attempts will be made to do bust
ness in foreign countries.
A foot passenger, Immediately after
crossing street car track in Copen.
hagen, was struck by a wheelman and
thrown against an electric car. He
was Immediately taken to a hospital,
but died without having regained con-
sciousness.
The Thingvalla steamship company
has been SO completely gobbled up by
the United Steamship company that
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