Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-10-19
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
, Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.

The Swedish Sulphate Cellulose
Manufacturing company has been reg
istered at Malmo. Its capital stock is
1920, 600. and it is to deal in all materi-
ais necessary for the manufacture of
paper.
A steam launch of unusual construc-
ton has been built at Ljunggren's me-
chanical works at Kristianstad. 1t is
provided with brakes, the aim of which
is to stop the launch as quickly as pos
sible. The brakes consists mainly of
two large blades, which are run out
into the water on either side of the
launch. The brakes We're invented by
Count Posse of Bergkvarna-
The whisky distillers of Malmohus
have just held an important conven-
ton at Eslof. 1t was claimed that the
prices of liquor had been so low of late
that the distillers had actually lost
money. The high prices of coal and
Indian corn had also contributed to
this unsatisfactory result. The con-
vention resolved to reduce the produc-
ton ten per cen during the coming
year. and a committee was elected to
endeavor to induce the distillers of the
provinces of Kristianstad and Blek-
inge to jointin the movement.
A Dutch art critic has discovered
two paintings by Rembrandt at an old
Skane manor
The remains of the late S. A. He'd
lund. the ~Gothenburg journalist, were
reduced 10 ashes at the Gothenburg
~crematory.
The sugar factories of Sweden have
been provided with a new system of
knives for cutting the beets. The ca
pacity of the new system is almost
twice as great as that of the old. The
change involved an extra outlay of
several hundred thousand kronor, and
German experts have been engaged to
superintend the work of the new ma
chinery until the Swedes become IA
miliar with it. A new method of
washing the beets has also been intro
duced from Germany.
The rough frontier town of Gelli-
ware is abreast of the times. A pawn
bank has been opened up there.
Adelina Patti gave a concert at the
Royal thcater, Stockholm, and the
king decorated her with the medal
%"literis ct artibus."
A session of the provincial legisla-
ture and a horticultural convention
were held at the same time in Malmo,
and the hotels We're SO crowded that
belated members of the Legislature
were glad to obtain shelter for the
night at the Seamen's Home.
The receipts of the government for
the year 1899 were S5l, 226, 3S2. OF.
The consistory of Hernosand has
formally petitioned the king for di.
viding the diocese OF Hernosand, or.
ganizing the lans of Vesterbotten anc
Norrbotten into a new diocese. with
Lulea as the bishops residence.
Fifteen charges are vacant in the
diocese of Lund.
! The Onnestad Peoples high schoo
had a total attendance of 60 during
the past year.
1t has been estimated hat the pro
l posed navy yard and armory will cos
at least 81, 900, 600.
The duke of Sodormanland was con
frmed Sept. &c.
: j. V. Petre, the late mayor of Gehe
l bequeathed S., 600 to charitable insti
: %tutions in his city.
railways had a convention in Stock
holm and organized themselves into
national association.
: Consul f. G. Broms has bought
: large tract of land in Karl Gustaf par
: ish, Jorne valley, for the purpose O
: establishing a model farm, which il
to serve as a kind of school for tn,
farmers of that part of the country
e The farm, when fully equipped, will
v cost over S125, 600.
The state of Morocco has a navy con
s sisting Of one solitary gunboat, anc
the captain of this is a Swede nance
Benzon.
I 1t is just 100 years since Rev. Wiesel
gren, the great apostle of temperance
: was born, and the Swedish total alb
/ stainers may raise a monument il
/. honor of their teacher.
About 100 eIks have been killed j,
! the forests Of Sormland this year. TIL,
commercial value of the animals i
about $40 apiece on the average.
Pearl fishing is by no means remun
%erative in the Lagan and Atran river
this season. The highest price paie
= for any pearl found In the Lagan wa.
81. One man gathered 20, o 0 mussel
in a week, but did not find a singl
8 genuine pearl.
NORWAY.
l The second Norwegian clergymeni
conference was held in Trondhjem.
A French admirer of Ibsen has writ
b ten to the latter, telling him that .
new summer residence in a Paris sub
> urb will be called "'Villa Ibsen."
Mayor Arctander of Bergen is one O
the ablest Leftists in Norway, and hi
party was anxious to have him elected
to a seat ID the storthfng. The elect
ors of Nordland have elected him, al
e though Nordland is located severa
hundred miles from Bergen. BY way
of explanation 1t must be added thai
e the laws do not require that a member
e of the storthing shall be a resident O.
the district from which he is elected
Mayor Arctander is an ex-member O.