Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-07-13
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
The receipts of the postoffice depart
ment for the first quarter of the pres
ent year were 615 per cent in excess of
the receipts for the corresponding per-
iod last year.
A large number of Swedes are re-
turning from America, and many of
them go to Norrland at once, the pres
ent Eldorado of Sweden.
The stockholders of the Trelle borg
sugar factory have received dividend
of Is per cent.
The committee appointed to select a
site for the hospital for consump tives
of southern Sweden is quite busy; but
SO far no satisfactory place seems to
have been found.
The new buildings put up in Stock
holm since Oct. I, 1897. contain :, 45l
rooms, including 1850 kitchens.
Mrs. n. H. Abrahamson, of Myckle-
by parish, has given birth to twins
four times in succession. AS there
were three children in the family be-
fore. the head of 1t found it difficult to
supply food for all the hungry little
mouths In his distress, he also wrote
to the king, and in few days received
gift: of S27 from his majesty.
The crown princess was to spend
some time at the Franzenbad watering
place on her way back to Sweden.
Christina Nilsson Countess Casa de
Miranda) will spend the whole sum-
mer with her relatives in Sweden this
year.
Mrs. Bengt Hanson, of Moinge,
Skane, invited her relatives to her 10th
birthday, 1.-The last invitation to nv
family" as she put it. Her relatives
accepted the invitation with appre-
hension lest her weak constitution
should not stand the strain. 1t turned
out to be her last invitation.' Just as
the guests were preparing to leave her
house her heart failed, and she passed
quietly away in her parlor.
A strong stock company will start a
factory at Malmo for the manufacture
of oils and different kinds of fodder.
A private company may be granted
permission to build an electric railway
between Malmo and Linhamn
There are nine candidates for the
seat left vacant in the second chamber
of the riksdag by the death of Col Ellis
Nilsson from Ystad.
Again the hoof and mouth disease is
officially declared to be rooted out in
Kristianstad.
Edward Grieg, the Norwegian COM
poser, recently said to Swedish news
paper man: II don't know whence it
comes that you Swedes are absolutely
bound to sing better than the rest of
us Scandinavians. Can it be due to
the language? Well, your language is
kind of more open; it seems to lie
farther out on the tongue-mayb be that
is the reason
A labor. union is organizing at the
Hoganas coal mines.
Bishop Billing recently made a
noteworthy address at a high school
commencement in Vesteraas. He said,
in part: ''Cowardice manifests itself in
many forms. First, in fear of physi-
cal suffering; and even if this fear be
overcome in the course of time, no
gymnastics of life can wholly remove
this blemish. AS we grow older, other
forms of cowardice begin to control us:
Fear of man begins to assert itself
even in school, and it grows with the
years. Many a man has been led into
a road which is not good because he
feared to stand alone against his COM
raoes when they were banded to-
gether, because he feared their opin-
ions and jeers. Later on in life man
is pursued by this fear of standing
al ho vx,ho DC a.
gether by clannishness and PARTISAN
ship, and his character is undermined.
Finally, it is cowardice not to be able
to be all by ones self, not to dare to
look into the secret terrors of con-
science"
The Krlstianstad society for timber
culture disposed of 500 pounds of seed
and 100000 young plants during the
past year.
The ''oldest inhabitent'' Of Stock
holm is Karolina Albion. She is liv-
ing at widows home. where ban
quet was given in her honor on her
Tooth birthday. Even the queen hon
ored her by sending her basket of
flowers and some confectionery.
John OLSEN, a noted lawyer, was
appointed on a jury which was to try
libel suit against Svenska Morgon-
bladet; but as he refused to take the
regular oath, but only solemn declari
alton, he was discharged from service.
Prince Wilhelm, the second son of
the crown prince, is serving as cadet
on the ship Saga >, 4-zx i. n ~. i.
s. A. Hedin, the Stockholm member
of the riksdag, is still very weak on
account of his recent illness. 81 ..~% #
st4s go go, FRI NORWAY. @%ss .gsS
The spirit of democracy only seems
to be marching onward in Norway.
Nothing could illustrate this fact more
clearly than the support of the refer
endum system by leading men IN all
political parties. We quote parts Of
al editorial in Verdens Gang on this
subject: The proposition to introduce
the referendum (the right of the whole
people to vote on any important meas.
#urel seems to have been hailed with
& inv in all political parties This proves