Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-08-31
NORWAY.

utmost, but they are running the dan
gerous risk of buying old bottoms.
Their ~watchword seems to be: Any
thing hat floats.
The fashionable color for frame
buildings is rapidly passing from nat
ural wood colors to white.
The hay crop was gathered under
favorable circumstances in southwest
ern Norway, and the yield is fairly
good.
Carl Lumholt, who has acquired a
name as an explorer in the wilds of
Mexico, has returned to Norway after
having spent two years in New York,
writing a book on his travels and dis
coveries.
The number of steamers in the pro-
cess of construction in Norwegian
shipyards on July 1 was A, aggregat-
ing 1890 tons. Only seven of them
are built of wood, the rest of iron and
steel.
Verdens Gang, the great champion
of political liberty, admits that the
liberal constitution of Norway and the
democracy which it has cherished are
by no means al unqualified success.
The paper claims without reserve that
the politics of the dominant party, the
Leftists, has ~degenerated to an alarm
ing extent during the past three years.
Referring to the practice of ostracism
in ancient Athens, the paper says:
'Our elections have also had their os-
tracism by means of pot-sheds. We
can no longer Danish people, but we
can exclude our able men in order that
good-for-nothings may have a chance
to flourish. When this policy is pur-
sued the representative system, which
ought to be the cur of modern society,
must wither and carry us back to what
caused the decay and humiliation of
the ancient states. At the coming
elections we are confronted with this
query: Shall we repeat the mistakes
which destroyed those that committed
them? Or, shall we keep abreast of
our times by electing as members of
the storthing the best and ablest men
that we have in the different walks of
life?"
A S15, 900 restaurant is to be erected
in Nygaard's park, Bergen.
Forty hogs have died of sple6o fever
at Strinden, Trondhjem.
The housewives of Kr~istiania have
to pay 16 cents a pound for beef steak
during the hot season; soup meat IA
cents; veal and mutton, 16 to 10 cents;
fresh salmon, SIS cents; smoked salmon,
IS cents; small herring. 8 to 4 cents
per quarA But vegetables are very
cheap.
Stavanger has $500 voters.
A detachment of cavalry was ordered
TO cross the river on a pontoon bridge
at Exile, Verdalen. The first mar to
ride out on the bridge was Mr.. Hoen,
from Overhadden, and both he and his
horse were carried away by the cur
rent and lost. The next man barely
saved his WI life.
Sigbjorn Obstfelder, a young and
very gifted author is dead, aged "a
years.
st. Olaf's Day, July 20, wa celebrat-
ed in the Trondhjem cathedral. A sa-
cred concer was given the previous
evening, and Rev. Christofer Bruun
preached in the forenoon to an audi
ence of 1900 people. Bjornson was
also in town and made altogether
about half a dozen addresses
A cable ferry has been started for
regular traffic across the bay between
Skarpsno and Oscarshal, near Kris
tiania. 1t has accommodations for $50
passengers. The cable on which it
runs is made of wire, and is about two
inches in diameter. Except close up
to the ends of the ferry the cable lies
too deep in the water to be reached by
ships crossing it.
Norway used to import machinery
betting from England. Now the Nor
weglan factory is not only supplying
the home market, but is also filing or
ders from France and England.
The late Astrup, who once was a
member of the cabinet, had ordered
that his remains should be cremated.
The order was obeyed and the urn
containing his ashes will be immured
in a mountain on his farm Kviltorp,
near Molde.
Verdens Gang finds that the gospel
OF Kaiser Wilhelm and that of Angelo
Bresci do not differ very greatly from
each other. Kaiser Wilhelm, in his
famous Bremerhafen speech, ordered
his soldiers to kill, kill right and left,
kill the guilty and the innocent indis-
criminately, and Bresci shot his king
to wreak vengeance upon our social
system. They both wanted to do JUS
tioe; they both encouraged the she'd
ding of innocent blood.
Three military storehouses burned
down at G~imlemoen, and large quanti-
ties of clothing and rifles were de-
stroyed. Almost simultaneously fire
broke out in a shipyard, where a ware
house and q smaller building were de-
voured by the flames. The fire is sup
posed to be of incendiary origin in
both cases. The armory Of the regu-
lar army burned to the ground, de-
stroying 1000 Krag-Jorgensen rifles,
100 %revolvers, 600 complete uniforms
and a large quantity of camp equip
ment. The damage is said tc be about
$50, 600.
Krist;ania has about es mn 1oo.1