Willmar tribune., 1899-02-22

the past few years, gives the following
characteristics of the Swedes: THE
Swede is born student of natural sci
ence, and mechanic, excelling, in this
respect every other people in the world.
Sweden. in proportion to her population.
has produced a larger number of great
inventors than has any other country.
Our Workngmen cheerfully devote them
selves to their tasks, and it is natural to
every one to do his work as well as pos
slble. The principle poor and cheap
has no charm for the Swedish mind
The writer, however. deplores the fact
| that purely commercial interests are
neglected by the Swedes Very many
good SWedes are even in the habit of
| looking down upon trade as degrading.
The merchants do not constitute a strong
and proud class of their own as is the
| case IN SO many other countries. mer-
chant family that becomes rich and thor
oughly independent is usually switched
| or It's track onto bureaucratic career
| the business experience gained by such a
| family is suddenly lost and valuable
trade connections are severed. If the
SWedes were able in pushing the sale
| of their goods as they are in producing
| the goods. the economical progress of the
|
marked than it is
A syndicate in Gothenburg will fit out
| a vessel for canning Goldfish at the fish
| ing grounds in Lofoten, Norway The
| work is to be done on board the ship, so
| that the canned goods will be made
ready for the market soon as the fish
is caught. The outfit will cost about
$l5O,OO0, and M. Lyckholm. a rich brewer.
is furnishing the capital. firm in
Vienna has ordered 400,O 900 pounds of the
! goods.
! new railway may be built between
| Dalby and Soevsborg.
| August Strindberg celebrated his 5Oth
| birthday at Lund in quiet way. He
| wished to be 'let alone" but his peace
| was interrupted by one hundred tele-
| grams and by number of friends who
| were bound to see him.
| New glass works for the manufacture
| of window panes will be established next
| summer.
| The aggregate attendance at the higher
| institutions of learning in Sweden is
| 16,5o0
| The total abstainers in the second
| chamber Of the riksdag have organized
! themselves by electng Rev. P Walden
strom chairman and Ed Wavrinsky sec
| retary.
Rev. N. Lellky. of Halmstad a Meth
odist minister, officiated at the funeral Of
| a child whose parents are Methodists
| Rev. Wallinder, the minister of the state
| church congregation, protested against
the services; but no physical interference
was offered and the ceremonies were
| performed without any hitch.
The extra session of the landtag Qegis-
lature) of Finland has taken hold of it's
| delicate task, namely that of increasing
! the army, as a necessary consequence
making the military burdens heavier. The
speech from the throne contained the fol-
lowing significant utterance: "The mill
tary laws of Finland must be made to
agree with those of Russia" The
| speakers of the different branches of the
landtag adroity mentioned the peace
manifesto of the czar, and expressed the
hope that he would not increase the bur-
dens of his Finnish subjects.
The most recent Andree story is to the
effect that the remains of Andree and his
companions and the car of the balloon
have been found between Keno and Pit,
in the province of Yeniseisk. To this
| d
that the locality referred to is cultivated,
and that it appears incredible that the
corpses and car of the balloon could have
been there a year and a half without
having been seen before this Further
more, in stormy weather the bodies
would almost certainly have been sep
arated from the wreck of the balloon.
Gen. A. w. Greeley. chief signal officer Of
th r. tbo mi
if, alleged in the story, the bodies
were surrounded by scientific instruments
and the cabin was built of wreckage
from the explorers outfit. there should
be no trouble in establishing the identity
of the bodies and whether they were
those of Andree and his companions or of
! some other party.
A prominent Norwegian daily states
that the recent illness of the king was
largely due to the attacks which the
'jingocs' made upon his conciliatory
course in regard to the enforcement of
the Norwegian flag law.
In the course of the discussion of the
| pure Norwegian flag in the first cham
ber of the riksdag. Bjornstjerna made
the strongest speech. and the substance
of it is submitted: when we recall the
| enthusiasm IN Norway in 1874 (When the
| union jack was inserted in the Norwegian
fag). we find it hard to explain the pres
ent hostility to the union flag. The union
jack meant equality. which originally
was not intended. A ripe nation does not
change it's flag that way. There must be
some peculiar occasion for the change,
which. of course. must needs wound the
feelings of the king and every right
minded Swede (cheers). No common
sense can see through this Norwegian
| logic (cheers). I wish it would be left to
! the ship owners to use which flag they
prefer. and then we could see which is
the most popular"
Some one proposed that the government
grant a poets salary to August Strind-
berg; but the poet himself objects to this
move. and that will be the end of it.
The second chamber of the riksdag has
unanimously endorsed the request of Mr..
Nydahl to be permitted to memorialize
the premier in regard to the suffrage pc
titiOn.
1t has been settled that the Swedish
and the Russian contingent of the geo.
detic survey expedition to Spitzbergen
will establish winter quarters about 20
English miles apart, and the two will be