Willmar tribune., 1900-03-28

| An eighty year old man at Engel-
beck astonished his friends by dane
ing like young man with rosy
checked girls.''
The archaeological investigation
which have been carried on for three
years past in GLAND (island), will be
closed this year. The numerous walls
at Alvaren have been found to date
from the earlier bronze age. Those
engaged in the work have been COM
PEELED to dismiss all legendary infor-
nation and rely wholly on what they
find by digging in the ground.
The appointment of new arch
bishop will take place May sixteenth.
Svenska Dagbladet sounds note of
warning to the Swedish wage work.
ers. Agriculture used to be the lead
ing industry in Sweden. But in the
course of the last few decades the
manufacturing Industries have de-
veloped much faster than the farm
ing industry and indications are not
wanting that in the near future the
industrial pursuits will support a
larger percentage of the population
than any other single industry. This
means that Sweden must expand her
foreign markets. This, again, means
that she must enter upon a course of
general and aggressive competition
with the great manufacturing nations
q 01S1l IL
cessfully? Svenska Dagbladet first
parades as general axiom that Swed-
lsh manufacturers are superior to
those of other countries. But along
with this superiority of quality runs
the higher cost of production. In
other words, Swedish wares are good,
but when they are placed on the mar
ket they also cost more than goods
produced elsewhere. The Swedes are
faithful artisans, but very slow. 1t is
this general slowness that said paper
| is afraid of. I'm the face of i'm
pending DANGER" says S. D., cor very
great distress, even the Swede may
strain every nerve and muscle to the
| utmost. But in his everyday work
he takes things easy. A Swedish
| workingman is seldom or ever in such
| hurry that he cannot stop in the
midst of his work to engage in a con-
versation which may be source of
enjoyment to him but which does not
tend to increase the returns from his
work." This habit of wasting time is
partly excused on the ground that the
hours are very long. But even if the
| hours are cut down to the average for
| the leading manufacturing countries
| the paper fears that the easy-going
habits of the Swedish workingman will
prove a great obstacle in the way of a
| successful competition in the great
markets of the world. In the closing
sentence of the editorial in question
it is put down categorically that the
manufacturing industries of Sweden
cannot expand indefinitely unless the
present 'slow methods are discard
ed.
Two girls of the ages of fourteen
| and nine years, in the island of Got
land, perished in the recent snow
storm on their way from school.
Crown Princess Victoria visited the
king and queen of Italy shortly after
her arrival in Rome, and the queen
gave her Svea bicycle.
Ten privates of the svea body guard
were instructed to make a trip on
skis to Storlien on the Norwe egian
boundary line. But the order was
given wrong Interpretation in north.
ern Norway, and in order to avoid
needless excitement on the west side
of the Kiolen the order was counter
manded.
The government wants an appropri-
alton of $4,000 for biological and
hydrographical survey of the Baltic
Sea and the North Sea during the
year 1901.
The stock of the famous Borreley
farm, in Skane, has been sold at pub.
lie auction. The prices paid were
phenomenally high. The average
price for COWS was SALTS, for heifers
$112, for calves $55, and fourteen one
year old bulls brought an average OF
$233, the highest price paid for any
animal in the lot was $43O for one
year old bull.
The government has memorialized
the riksdag to authorize the railway
department to buy real estate for
$1,250,00O, in Stockholm, the ground to
be used as site for the new central
depot in that city. This is the first
| item of expenditure for an improve.
ment which will cost about seven mil.
lion dollars in all. The plans adopted
were those of Glenn & Eyde, a Nor.
wegian firm of architects, who were
the successful participants in an in
ternational competition.
The queen is said to be strongly in
favor of Bishop Won Scheele, of Visby
for archbishop of Sweden.
Twenty thousand dollars has been
raised for the erection of monument
to King Karl XIV.