The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-07

the shores OF the Aral lake. In Persia the
expedition will secure antiquities and will
wind up at Eusele. whence the home jour-
ney will commence through Russia.
When the festivities in the Norwegian
capital were at an end Ibsen went to CO.
penhagen. His reception was royal. His
apartments ar the Hotel Angleterre were
flower depots. At the hotel 1bsen also
found the grand cross OF the Dannebrog
order, which had been sent him by the
king. distinction never before accorded
a foreign poet. In the evening a banquet
was tesdered the Norwegian dramatist at
the Hotel Angieterre.
AT the Amaiienborg palace Ibsen was
received by the king, the queen. the dow
ager empress. Dagmar, and the Princess
of Wales
From Copenhagen Ibsen proceeded to
the Swedish capital to thank King Oscar
for his fiattering contribution to the Ibsen
brochure, published at Christiania.
The steamer Prospero arrived on the 4th
day Of April from Newcastle with i26 SAIL
ors from Norwegian ships which had been
wrecked In the storms on the North sen
the previous week.
The following day the steamer Harold
Haarfagre brought the crews of other
Norwegian vessels which had been ship
wrecked of the Danish coast In the same
storm
Outside OF the fishing Villages OF Rome.
in Denmark, the fishing fleet was caught
by the storm and twenty-one fishing boats
with crews went to the bottom. More
than one-half of these boats belonged to
Swedish fishermen,
A German-Danish society which insures
employers aEainss damages which they
may suffer by reason OF strikes or lock-
outs has been organized In Berlin aid Co
penhagen. The company has j capital
stock OF 5.ooe00o marks, divided into 5000
shares.
DR. Georg Brandes, the Danish critic.
who recently visited Rome. was the object
Of great attention on the part Of literary
men. 4 deputa;ien OF students from the
University OF Rome waited upon the fam
Gus critic and delivered to him very fat
tering address.
In the Norwegian sterth!ng Representa-
tives I. Myryary and y. Skilhred have in
PRODUCED a hill for the purpose OF making
land accessible 20 the poorer classes by
purchase. The bill provides that the Hy-
pothek bank Of Norway shall he author
ICED 20 make loans to cenmunes and mu-
inequalities for the purchase Of large tracts
OF agricultural lands. These lands shall
he parceled out into small tracts and sold
To poor people at the ratable original pur-
chase price. The bill further authorizes
the bank 20 loan money 70 consnr1nes for
the purchase of smaller tracts. These
loans shall draw interest at the rate of
3 per cent. per annum The buyer can
borrow from the commune nine-tenths OF
the value OF the parcel be buys. which
means that he pays one-tenth OF the pur-
chase price cash. but he cannot borrow
more than s5Ee crowns. On this sum he
pays ? per cent interest per annum. He
is nat required 10 make any payments on
the principal until after three years. and
has forty-fve years in which 20 pay his
debt 10 the commune. II there are build
ings on the land or the purchaser ereets
buildings he can borrow an additional
sum Of money from the commune equal TO
ntne-tenths of the value OF such buildings
but not 10 exceed f.5ss crowns TIC com
Tnune nay also lease property 30 acquired
AZ u rental not 10 exceed 81 per cent; os
the appraised valuations 81 such prop1rty
The ioans must pa paid by tina comnunes
IN fifty years. The bill viii receive the
support Of the majority OF the Liberals
and VIII unaues.ioGabiy become Jaw