Willmar tribune., 1899-03-08

President Ullmann, Of the storthing,
has been permitted to stay away from
the storthing a few days In order to con-I
fer with the executors of the will of AL
fred Nobel, the late Swedish millionaire
philanthropist, in regard to the rules for
awarding his prize for the best essay on
international peace. w.. ,z< ,s
Verdens Gang makes vicious stab at
the government for decorating u. 8. Sem
ator Knute Nelson and Mr.. Thorpe, a
Chicago merchant, with inferior orders, e
while the members of the liberal party
in Norway are honored with decorations
of higher degrees. What makes the criti-
c1sm peculiarly pungent is the fact that
the paper is taking the leaders of it's own
party to task by its utterances.
L. A. Mydland of Stavanger, has in
vented new machine for making fish
balls. It may be operated by girl. and
the balls drop as fast into the boiler as
she can "press tho button" This inven-
ton will be great boon to Stavanger.
E. c. Oppenheim has published book
IN English, on the scaling of Norwegian
mountains, and an English reviewer is
convinced that Norway has very great
Iuture as an Eldorado for tourists,
sportsmen and mountain-scalers.
The Salvation Army of Norway has
celebrated it's eleventh anniversary.
The national woman's suffrage union
has made an appeal to the Norwegian
women to petition the Storthing for
law granting women the right to vote at
local elections.
Six million two hundred and twenty
nine thousand two hundred and seventy
four logs were RATED on the Glommen
river in 1898.
The public school teachers in Kris
tiania are strongly in favor of making
cooking compulsory branch in the pub
plc schools, and they are sustained by
the press as well as by leading citizens.
Trondljem, Feb. s.-Immense masses of
snow are covering the mountains. In
Meraker the snow is thirteen feet deep
on level ground. Two days ago three
and half feet of snow fell in five hours
The freight train from Storlien had to
use steam to force it's way down a grade
OF I to SIS, where the brakes are usually
put on.
A motion to grant Kristofer Janson $430
as poets salary caused lengthy dis
cussion in the Storthing. Janson was re-
celVlng salary before he went to Amer
lea, in 1882; but since his return to Nor
way, in 1884, the government paid no at
tention to him until last summer, when
his friends made an attempt to restore
his salary. President Ullmann and others
spoke strongly in favor of the motion
but it was lost by vote of SIS to 49,. AT
terwards a motion was made to request
the government to consider whether jan
son ought to receive an 'author's sti-
pend;' but this flank movement was de-
feated by 60 votes.
Periodical market-days for ages were
great feature of city life in Norway.
On those days people from the distant
valleys and fjords and mountains and
forests had general rendezvous in town.
And everybody was bent on combining
business with pleasure. Buying and SELL
ing and dickering during the day, and
dancing and drinking and card-playing
and fighting during the night An aw-
fully glorious time for great and wee, for
rich and poor alike. Then blows the blast
Of modern commercialism over the coun-
try, and the market-day with it's rude
poetry is no more. Kristiania, for in
stance, has just said it's last goodbye to
| Its last market-day. Henceforth this in
| stitution will no longer be found except
! in old books