Willmar tribune., 1900-03-07

The storthing is expected to vote
$1,000 to the international temperance
congress-, which will convene in Kris .
tiania next summer.
~, The wages in the building trade in
krlstiania have dropped at least one
third since last summer, and the price
OF brick has dropped from So to 81 a
thousand. The work has been stop
ped on hundreds of new buildings for
lack OF funds. But there is such
scramble for family accommodations
that general revival in the building
trades is confidently expected in few
weeks or months.
A resident of Stokke left his family
and number of bills unpaid some
thirteen years ago, and soon bobbed
up in America. While working on a
river steamer he lost his arm in col
lision and finally received damages
amounting to $4,000. A few days ago
he returned to him old home quite un-
expectedly. One of his first moves
was to pay his bills, after which he
bought fine home at Tonsberg.
A man from Gudbrandsdalen took a
horse to Kristiania and sold it for $3.50
on condition that it was accepted for (
service in the army. But the man who
bought it came back and told that the
horse was refused on the ground that
it was lame The original owner
| had to take the horse back. But
| nothing daunted he took the animal
to another division of the army and
received $216 for it. And the experts
in the army are wondering "where
they are att
"An abundance of fine fish, SAYS a
! dispatch from Vardo.
The ice on the Kristiania ford is
twenty inches thick
1t is proposed by the government to
raise the capital stock of the govern
ment bank of Norway from $3,375, 900
to double that amount. 1t is also pro-
posed to raise the maximum paper cir
culation above and beyond the gold
reserve, from $6,4sO,O00 to $e,35O 900.
Those Norwegians who bought the
Skodsborg bathing establishment and
hotel in Denmark, have found out that
they made very poor investment.
They are running the establishment
at loss. They have expended $780,
900, and at present they could not get
over $4,000 for the property.
DENMARK.
! The Danish historical museum has
purchased the buildings on two farm
steads in southern Sweden, ono of
which is located at Sosdala, the other
at Halland. The buildings are sew
eral hundred years old, being fair
specimens of farm houses in southern
Sweden when that territory was a
part OF the Kingdom of Denmark One
of the sets of buildings filled twenty
freight cars. The buildings are to be
re-erected on small farm at Breda.
about one English mile from Lyngby.
1t seems to be next to impossible to
check the encroachment of the sea
upon the beach at Limfiord, one
breakwater being washed away after
another. The next one will be made
out of 10000 tons of granite from
Lysekil, Sweden.
The question of selling the Danish
West Indies to the United States is
fast coming to head. On Feb. %
Premier Horring asked the folket:ling
committee of ways and means to SUBJ
NIT its opinion regarding the sale of
the islands to the United States.
Edward Brandes, Ph.D., proprietor
of Politiken, remarked in his paper
that Mr.. Schyberg, an actor at the
Copenhagen Royal Theater," walked
in such a peculiar and careful way
that it suggested something unmen-
tionable." This was far too much for
the playwright, and as he met DR..
Brandes on the street he boxed mis-
ear and knocked off his hat DR.. Bran
how, but neither one of the combat
ants was hurt. The whole Kingdom
is interested in the tussle, which, how
ever, is taken far from seriously bv
the great mass of the Danish people.
Lieutenant Amdrup is busy making
preparations for his second expedition
to northeastern Greenland. The ex-
pedition will leave Denmark in June
and will stay away at least one year.
The first Danish sanitorium for the
combating of tuberculosis is located at
Veilefjord and will be opened to the
public March /.
DR.. Finsen will fit up one of his
'light chambers" at the Paris worlds
fair. The light chamber is a room
in which skin diseases are cured by
means of the application of light in
various colors and of different degrees
of intensity. The ''light chamber
will doubtless be point of great at
traction at the fair.
The Danish press holds that the
Danish West Indies are apt to be sold
to the United States in the near fu-
ture.
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