Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-05-24

Kristiania and Bergen have had one
marine school ship each. The next
city to have such ship is Trondhjem,
and public spiriten citizens of Stavan-
ger have commenced to agitate for one
to be used in connection with the pub
lie school OF. their city.
A home forvagrant children will be
established at Rostad, Indeoen, where
property has been bought for 49,, 500.
Similar homes will also be opened at
Os and Eidanger.
is settled, the employers carrying their
points.
Hammerfest, April 27.-Snow has
been falling until the last few days,
and 1t is from = to s feet deep along
the streets. The polar ice extends
about so (English) miles out from the
shore, and the prospects of spring are
far from bright.
The only cement factory in Norway
is located at Flemmestad, on the Kris
tiania ford; but German capitalists
have decided to establish new ones in
Mjondalen, near Drammen, and in
Lanzo, in the Holmestrand ford.
A single firm of ship owners in
Drammen has just bought steamers for
$275,0oo in foreign countries.
Arbeidrian warns against moving to
town in language which cannot we'll
be misunderstood: do not move to
town, for here we have SCOT and smoke
and bad air and poor food and narrow
rooms, large expenses, great tempta-
tions and dangers and all kinds of
snares and pitfalls of vice. And you
will be transformed into a whirring
pool, uniformed nothing, a dead
number-a cipher in the big money
bag, the button, knife, rabble and rag
factory. Come not, we tell you, except
you happen to have the lungs of a
whale, the nerves of a horse. the
muscles of a mosquito, the brain of a
monkey and the conscience of a louse."
One of the characteristics of the Old
Morse saga style is short, plain, clear
cut sentences, and this merit is shared
by the modern Norwegian writer's Of
any consequence. For that reason it
must be rather calling to the editor of
Afteuposten, the leading conservative
daily in Norway, to have have his COL
leagues point to one of his editorials
containing two sentences, each of
which consisted of thirty lines. Inn
manuel liant, the German philosopher,
and not Snor2 Sturluson, the king of
Old Morse, must be the ideal of the ed
itor of AftenpOsten.
A number of citizens of Kristiania
have organized society for the adj
vancement of agricultural pursuits in
Finmarken. The first aim of the new
society will be to induce experienced
farmers from southern Norway to en-
igrate to the extreme north and teach
the people up that way to raise better
crops. Barley and oats grow to perfec-
ton $50 miles north of the polar circle,
and hundreds of acres of tillable
ground has never been touched by
spade or plow.
The deficit of the Norwegian Mission
society for 1898 was $2s,
At Tonsberg child which was bap-
tized about month ago had as spon-
sors two grandparents and four great
grandparents.
A contractor offered to build tele-
graph line through Kvikne for $1,125.
No, the government was to build it,
and now it is found that the work cost
$4,000
The Y. NJ. c. A. of Trondhjem will
dedicate it's new hall and celebrate it's
rs years jubilee August next. Prince
Bernadotte is expected to be present.
Parties in Roros have bought 300
reindeer in the north and taken them
to the former place, where they will
be kept in the mountains as a business
venture.
The average catch of Goldfish is
4s,000,000, but the catch for the past
season was only 26,OOO,O 600.
DENMARK.
COMFY Zilliacus, Finnish author,
lectured before the Danish students
society on the History of Finland since
February Is, 1899. He made a very
profound impression, and the follow
ing resolution was passed W1CnOuC
dissenting vote: ''The Students So
ciety of Copenhagen sends Finland
greetings. AS sons and daughters of a
small nation we can sympathize with
the tireless efforts made by another
small nation in the interest of advance
ment of civilization. AS children of
nation which is familiar with the fate
of having neighbors of superb bounding
force, we have learned to blend our
sentiments with those Of a nation put
ting national independence above
everything else. AS men of liberty
and progress we can appreciate how
the rights of struggling people are
the bulwark of it's most precious treas
ure.
King Christian TX. is the great
grandfather of seventeen princes and
princesses. Who can beat that record?
A great lockout took place the first
days of May. It involved about 1000
carpenters who have been thrown out
of work for an indefinite period. The
movement originated in Upland, where
where the carpenters in seven factories
quit work after an unsuccessful at