Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-04-18


Consumption is responsible for 5000
out of the 10000 deaths which occur
every year in Norway.
Most of the blood from animals
bazchered in KristiaHia is poured into
the sewers because it is customary"
The Kristiania Bank of Kreditkasse,
pays dividend of 10 per cent for the
year 1899.
During the first three weeks of
March, $4,000 loads of ice and snow
were removed from the streets of
krlstiania. On some days about 1000
men and $50 horses were engaged in
this work.
Ten thousand copies of the new edi-
tions of Snorre's Kongesagaer IAN
Gent history of Norway, written
about the year 1230) have been sold in
the course of a few months though
the price of the cheapest edition is
$3.65. This speaks volumes for the
rock-rlbbed patriotism of the Nor
wegians of our day. If the storthing
votes a $2,700 bounty the publisher
will print $4,000 cheap copies and sell
them at 40 cents apiece, so that every
grown Norwegian may be the owner
OF this masterpiece from the golden
! age of the old Icelandic-N orwegian
| literature.
Just at present Norway is losing
hundreds of thousands of able-bodied
young men, and it goes without say
ing that the most of them are bound
for our great republic.
The different political parties are
preparing to bury their hatchets for
the purpose of celebrating the seven
teenth of May in joint gatherings.
The storthing has voted 100000 for
the purchase of the telephone system
of kristiania, the vote being Is to 80.
DENMARK.
For years past Copenhagen has not
had such great fire as the one that
destroyed Titan, large f;,crory on
Tagensvej. The loss was $27O,OOO, and
500 hands became idle. The property
was insured in an international con-
Germ, so that the bulk of the loss falls
to foreigners.
Copenhagen, April 7.-Herr Won
Sehested, vice president of the land
thing, has formed a new ministry, rep
resentative of the rightists> Presi-
dent Sehested and his colleagues will
assume office Immediately after the
close OF parliament in the middle of
April. Herr Schauck retains his port
folio as minister of war. Herr Bran
sen will still preside over the depart
ment of the interior. The rest of the
cabinet is composed entirely of new
members. Professor Scharling will
succeed to the ministry of finance and
Professor Coos to the ministry of JUS
| tice. Rev. Bierre will act as minister
| OF public instruction.. Herr Friis, Il
former director of schools, will act as
minister of agriculture and Baron
Juel will superintend the railways,
posts and telegraphs.
Holger Drachmann, the poet, has
written to his friends in Copenhagen
that he is completely tuckered out,
both mentally and physically, and
that he needs absolute rest for some
time if he is to continue his literary
pursuits. This rest, however, means
an outlay of about $1,000, Which it is
expected his admirers will raise by
subscription.
A Danish paper gives an account of
a girl who is apt to go to sleep sud-
denly at any time, and that she sleeps
from one to three days at time. On
one occasion she fell asleep at the
dinner table.
n. G. Nielsen, gardener at Varde,
has invented remedy for cancer in
trees. 1t is claimed to be practically
| infallible, and the inventor expects
that it will bring him fortune.
The United States Steamship Com
pany has declared dividend of 10 per
| cent.
Empress Dowager Dagmar, of Rus
sia is visiting at the Danish court
Reports from 1888 parishes show
that the consumption Of strong drinks
is decreasing. In 81 parishes there
has been an increase, in SO the con-
sumption is the same AS before, and
in 1880 there is a marked falling off.
This change is due mainly to the
work of the peoples high schools and
the temperance organizations.
Nine new members have just been
elected to the city council of Copen-
hagen. They are all iberalists, the
liberal vote cast being 15,061 to 14,372
and the conservative vote 1926 to H.
| 40.
Socialdemokraten has found the af-
fairs of benevolent society for the
aid of minor convicts to be in an in
teresting condition, to say the least.
The expenses for the past year
amounted about $4,000, but only $1,000
of this amount had been paid out for
| the benefit of unfortunate children,
and the remaining $4,000 figured as
running expenses.