Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-04-11
DENMARK.

DENMARK.
About ten per cent of the police
force of Copenhagen have been unfit
for duty on account of influenza.
Chief of Police Peterson has been
among the victims.
Rev. A. Setback, of Copenhagen, has
delivered a number of lectures on
modern Danish literature. He scored
some of the authors, especially DR..
George Brandes, very strongly on &C.
count of their free love tendencies.
j. P. E. Hartmann, the nestor of
Danish composers at the threshold of
the century, has gone to ''the land of
eternal harmonies."' He was almost
95 years old at his death. His compo-
sitions are numerous, and some of
them will be sung and played for ages
to come. Hartmann was member of
family of noted musicians, and his
grandfather composed the tune to
kong Kristian Stod we'd hojen MAST
A railway will soon be built
throughout the island of Amager.
A poor employe in a Copenhagen
foundry has invented new and very
effective method of preserving eggs.
This method is very simple. The eggs
are dipped into a chemical solution
which closes up the pores of the shells
and shuts out the air without affect
ing the taste of the egg. A London
merchant has bought the patent for
England the sum involved in the deal
being $150,0O0.
The first part of a new English
Danish dictionary, by J. Brynildsen
and Johannes Magnussen, has been
published. If the balance of the work
is in keeping with what has appeared
the dictionary will be the best of it's
kind in existence.
The Salvation Army is enjoying a
rapid and vigorous growth in the Dam
ish capital.
MaltaMueller and w. Ehlers have
| invented new steamboat propeller,
the characteristic feature of which is
that it is used both to drive the wheel
| forward and to steer it, thus doing
away with the rudder. 1t is compare
lively easy to sell the patent in the
different countries.
| Prof. FIR. Nielsen has been appoint
ed bishop of Aalborg. He will be
missed as professor of church history
at the university.
Rev. Uffe Birkedal is conducting lib
eral religious meetings at Margrete-
vel, Copenhagen. A questionable au-
! thority states that he was dismissed
from his charge in the state church
| because he did not want to pray for
rain during drought, but, on the
contrary, gave public lecture on the
Importance of planting trees to bring
down the moisture of the air in the
shape of rain. The Free-thinkers are
supporting the man in order to spite
the Inner Mission people.
The Prussian Landtag has raised the
appropriations for the secret work of
the presidents of the provinces from
100000 to 100000. This means in
| creased efforts to stamp out the Dan
ish language and Danish sympathies
in South Upland.
The Good Templars of Denmark
have just celebrated the twentieth an
niversary of the introduction of the
order in Denmark. There are 400
lodges in the country, and they have
membership of $4,000.
A national temperance congress was
held in Copenhagen March 9. There
were about 60 regular delegates, rep
resenting 10 different associations. It
was stated that the combined mem
bership Of all Danish total abstinence
organizations is almost 100000.
One Thousand seven hundred and
| thirty head of cattle were sold at
Cattle Market Square, in Copenhagen,
in single day. ...