Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-07-20
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAlHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within u Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

So just Past.
SWEDEN.
The police service of the cities of
Sweden costs about 5000, 900 year;
and the annual expenses to some of the
other departments are as follows: TO
the fire departments, $40, 900; to street
lighting, $2l5,000; to street cleaning,
ETC., S245, 900; to the water supply, $780,
to streets, roads, parks, market places,
ETC., 1926, 900; to the salaries of the diff
ferent kinds of city functionaries,
&345, 200.
From Gothenburg an official request
has been made to his majesty, the
king, to set forth in detail on what
conditions free harbors may be estab-
lished in Sweden.
A Swede who has spent years IN the
southern part of South America thinks
it would be easy to open a good mar
ket for Swedish punch and matches in
Patagonia.
King Oscar recently attended din
ner given by the officers of the garri-
son in Karlsborg. In drinking their
health, the king cordially touched
glasses with some of them. But all of
sudden the king was treated to a sur
prise. He struck an officer who CURLY
said, II never drink, your majesty;
ain total abstainer" The king hest
tated moment, then said, "You may
at least take an empty glass and touch
my glass when I wish to drink to your
health The officer looked thought
fully at the king, as though he consid-
cred the proposed makeshift in all its
bearings, and replied with great de-
termination, mo, your majesty"
A young man in Motala awoke one
morning to find a peculiar smell in his
bedroom. Looking towards the win
dow he noticed that the sun, shining
through globular decanter, had
burned big hole through a lot of pa
pers on the bureau. and also scorched
the cover of the bureau.
The resignation of Gillian as minis
ter for ecclesiastical affairs has been
accepted, and his successor is Coun-
selor of Justice N. L. E. Claeson. The
latter is just so years old, and is a very
able man.
Baron Rape, the minister of war,
has been laid up in the hospital on ac-
count of an attack of diphtheria, but is
recovering.
The poet Froding scarcely lived long
enough to acquire national fame be-
fore he became insane. He is taken
care of at a hospital, and it is expected
that he will recover.
The pear crop will be complete
failure in southern Sweden, but apples
will be plentiful.
There are over 95, 900 Good Templars
in Sweden.
The strike at the Furulund wooden
mills, in Malmo, is still kept up. Sew
eral fights have occurred between the
strikers and non-union men, and one
striker has been arrested.
The sugar beet crop will not be up
to the average in Sweden this year.
The beets were planted late, and every
here and there are blank spaces of
ground where every beet has died out
Rev. E. E. Linnell, of Hetlanda. is
not required to work-he is IS years
old. But he is so intensely interested
in his old calling that he still breaches
duu ScTVcS OclOTc Guc dlCdC d 1C" times
year.
A large number of Scandinavians are
attending the summer school at the
university of Jena, Germany.
Premier Bostrom and other men,
bers of the government have inspected
the Trollhattan canal with a view to
improving this waterway. Its present
&c I fo :.
proposed to increase the depth to about
20 feet This improvement would cost
over $4,000. 600; but incidentally the
work would render so much waste
waterpower available for lighting and
manufacturing purposes that the in
come from this would more than cover
the interest on the eight million dol
lars. If the proposed deepening is car
ried through there will be six large
locks in the canal.