Willmar tribune., 1900-09-19
SCANDINAVIAN Y NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN The FATHERLAyD.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So JustrPast.

In the Ola countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So JusttPast.
SWEDEN.
Jemtland has had it's first horticul-
tural fair, which was held at Oster-
sund. 1t was decided success.
The hazelnut crop of southern Swe-
den is "simply enormous" In many
places the bushes are bent to the
ground.
"A thirty-three pound pickeral was
caught with eel net in Swaland
lake. In Its spacious nav were found
eight crawfish, two big reaches,
q Calls stomach and job lot of other
delicacies.
A young man at Boras took his ko-
dak with him on stroll through the
country. A certain locality struck
his fancy, and as he was ready to take
shot at it an old woman came walk
ing along the road. II may as we'll
take her with the landscaps, '.he
thought, and turned his kodak against
her: But she suspected foul play of
the worst description, yelled to him,
don't aim! Put down your gun! don't
shoot, for Gods sakev and took to her
heals: The more she ran, however,
the more eager was the kodak friend
to get shot at her; and when he did
pick her up he got picture worth
seeing.
About $400 ''in gold" was to be dis
tributed as prizes at a rife match in
Hernosand. The money was there,
but in paper. But the two banks of
the place did not have S4O0 in gold, and
private parties, had to exc out the
balance. 1t goes without saying this
practical joke ma de the worthy bank
ers OF Henaosand look silly.
The committee appointed to make
Inquiries regarding the necessity of
aiding poor laborers in procuring
homes of their own has appealed to
the provincial governments for opin-
ions as to the limits of this class of la
borers. The main question asked by
the committee may be expressed thus:
What resources must farm laborer
have in order to be classed among
those who may be supposed to be able
to procure homes without state aid?
The provincial governments differ
widely as to the maximum income and
property of a laborer entitled to state
aid. This important committee evi-
IDENTIFY has a very difficult task to per-
form.
Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer,
travelled through the Lob Nor country,
Central Asia, last spring. Former ex-
Plorers had mapped out Lob Nor lake,
large sheet of water. Mr.. Hedin
found that the lake had completely
dried up, leaving nothing on its bot
tom but snails and weeds.
King Oscar returned home, Aug. 80,
from his summer resort at Marstrand.
The normal school teachers of Swe-
den held their sixth national conven-
tion at Linkoping. The convention
lasted three days and the number of
delegates was about eighty. The ques-
tion of revising the catechism was
discussed, but the result is not known
at this writing.
A number of Swedes have given ex-
hibitions of fancy swimming at the
Paris exposition. The performances
took place in the Seine and were Wig
orously applauded by four thousand
spectators. No one received greater
attention than one, Johansson. He
jumped into the river while wearing a
complete suit of clothes and disap-
peared. In moment one part of his
garment came to the surface, now an
other and another, and finally the man
himself returned, stripped to his very
scanty bathing suit.
Six hundred men are at work on the
new railway from Tomelilla to Bro
sorp, and the line will soon be COM
pleted.
In the year 1860 the assistant pastor
of the Klara congregation, of Stock
holm, was thin and pale and sickly-
so sickly, in fact, that people fell into
the habit of calling him 1.-The sickly
minister" instead of using his name,
and on one occasion he was referred
to in public prayer offered in his
church. This happened 81 years ago.
The newspapers recently contained
the following item: "Prof. w. Rudin,
who is 60 year old, walked alone and
unaided to the summit of Mount Ares
kutan, distance of four English
miles and an elevation of 1000 feet.
The feat was accomplished with
ease" Prof. Rubin was once that
''sickly minister" in Stockholm.
The newspapers persist in stating
that new daily will be started in
Stockholm by the temperance people
and the :prohibitionists. Johan Berg
man, of Norrkoping, and Ernst Beck
man are mentioned as editors-in-chief.
A wild goose which was caught
three years ago at Skalstugan, Jemt-
land, and had her wings clipped, has
ever since followed the sheep just as
though she had been sheep herself.
The gunhoit Svensksund did not
reach the Swedish geodetic survey ex-
pedition at Treuvenberg, Spitxbergen,
until August 8. The members of the
expedition were in a fine condition,
having passed the winter without SER
ious hardships. The work mapped
out for the. winter season had been
successfully completed, but large
part of the warm season was lost on
account of the ice crowding up
against the shores. t.o...,g Il
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