Willmar tribune., 1898-01-04
but She soon rallied, and they left
about three weeks ago.

arms, the rent ranging from Is to 20
cents day.
The smoking of cigarettes has be-
come veritable pest among the school
children of Kristiania, and the papers
are urging the parents to take vigor-
Gus measures to abate the habit,
The liberals of Kristiania are yearn-
ing for chance to celebrate their VIC
tory by a great blowout: but they
have to forego that enjoy me mt because
no suita BILE hall could be found in the
capital.
Mr.. Kjeltberg, an agent of the United
States government, has just arrived at
Trondhjem on his way to the Kjolen
mountains to buy reindeer for the
hlondike relief expedition.
For once the leading liberal paper
and the leading conservative paper
seem to have found subject on which
they can agree. They both favor the
establishment of philosophical chair
in the University of Norway for Ana
thon Aall.
"A dozen persons in different parts of
the country lost their lives last fall by
falling through the ice and drowning.
Prof. katarinus Bang can hardly be
said to give universal satisfaction at
the university. His branch is Norwe-
gian literature. A man who took the
trouble to review the catalogues of the
university found that for 2S years past
the professor has lectured on literary
culture in the 18th and 18th century
exclusively, excepting single year,
when the literature of the 10Th ce entury
was treated of.
The leading candidates for the posi-
ton of bishop of Bergen are Jacob
Sverdrup and Christen Brun. The for
mer is noted politician. and at pres
ent minister of public worship.
Some OF the liberal papers are kick
ing because the king indorses laws
passed by the storthing in the follow
ing terms: 'Given at the Stockholm
palace" The kickers protest that the
laws were ''given" in Kristiania.
The funeral of pauper far up in the
northern part of the country is men-
toned as an indication of the GOODNESS
of the man in charge, who in this case
was Finn. He was sent to the grave
yard with the corpse all alone. But,
being unable to manage the horse, he
and the dead man were carried along
at breakneck speed. and at the first
turn of the road the wagon tipped over,
throwing the two occupants to the
ground. The coffin was spllntered and
the corpse exposed. But the Finn was
unhurt, and fully equal to the emer-
gency. He left the corpse. recovered
the horse and wagon, got hammer
and nails, repaired the coffin, put the
dead man into it and drove to the cem-
etery as though nothing at all had in
terfered.
Fridtjof Nansen has bought real es-
tate for 50, 900 on the beach at Barum.
Two hundred and fifty firms in Kris
tiania have signifed their intention of
exhibits to the Bergen exposi-
ton next year. .:-~'
Big, fresh herring at Is cents
apiece in Stavanger, and other fish
equally cheap.
DENMARK.
A patient at the institute for the
blind in Copeneagen has had an ex-
perience which perhaps has no coun-
terpart in the annals of history. He is
about 40 years old, and until recently
lived in apparently enviable circum-
stances in every respect. He received
a business education, and as young
man obtained a fine position in Copen-
hagen. About dozen of years ago his
firm put him at the head of branch
office in Stockholm on salary of over
81, 900 year. He lived rather fast,
and no one seemed to suspect that he
was tired of life. This was the case,
however, and last summer he fred
shot into his brain. The physicians
saved his life, but the bullet had cut
his eye-nerves, rendering him COM
pletely blind. He soon recovered from
the immediate effects Of the wound,
and in order to be able to divert his
mind during the unending night before
him, he is now learning to read by
means of the sense of touch at the in
stitute.
Every member of the young ladies'
senior class at the Copenhagen academy
of arts failed to pass at a recent ex-
The gas works of Copenhagen had
been in operation 40 years on Dec. 9.
1t is not very reassuring to the meat
citizens of Copenhagen to
witness that the meat inspectors Of
fcially stamp as ''good" what came
from animals that died of old age or
disease.
Erik Skram's latest book, "Agnes
Vittrup," will soon be out in a second
Danish edition, and it will also appear
in German and Swedish.
The minister for foreign affairs has
concluded new commercial treaty
with Portugal.
The recent revelations in regard to
the sale of Objectionable meat at the
butcher shops in Copenhagen have
served to call attention to certain Pc
culiarities in the constitution of the
official meat inspection, One of these
is that distinction is made between
and city-inspected
meat, though the official stamps of the
two kinds of inspection are equally