Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
SCANDIN| "A Wan NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

The municipality of Helsingborg
has resolved to buy the establishment
Hvilan (Rest) and the Nycodal es-
tate for 100000. The grounds will be
laid out in streets and sites for resi-
dences.
klng Oscar agrees with the pope
about the time of the close of the
century. About the middle of Decem-
Der his majesty issued an encyclical
to the bishops of the kingdom, in
structing them to see that the minis
ters, at the last service on Sunday,
Dec. 81, call the attention of their
congregations to the particular sig
n1hcance of the transition from this
century to the next. The encyclical
also provided that all church bells
should be rung from ~ to 1915 in the
night between the 10th and the 2Oth
century.
The briclxlayers at Mellin's glass
works in Limhamn quit work in a
body because one of their number
was discharged.
The reading club, of Landskrona,
provided for rs public lectures in
1899, and the combined attendance at
these was 16,47S, or an average of $50
for each meeting. The club has 625
members. About three-fourths of
those interested in this endeavor are
workingmen.
The labor organizations in Stock
holm are uniting themselves into a
general association, and those who
are at the head Of the movement ex-
pect total membership of about 49,
900.
A new cooperative supply company
is putting up a warehouse of it's own
near Stockholm.
The starch factories of southern
Sweden have been closed for the sea-
son, and the price of potatoes has
dropped several cents on the bushel.
The National Athletic Association,
OF Stockholm, the president of which
is the Crown Prince, has taken steps
to set aside part of the Stockholm
geological gardens as a playground
for the children, and a national arena
for all kinds of physical exercises.
The area of the ground is over Is
acres.
The Swedish Salvationists intend to
contribute about $4,000 to the lend
of the century collection which is to
be handed over to General Booth for
benevolent purposes. The whole
amount of this collection is expected
to exceed 100000.
An agreement entered into last
spring between the Stockholm brick
layers and their employers will expire
next spring. Attempts will be made
early in the new year to establish a
new scale of wages and after regula-
tions so as to put the building indus
tries on safe basis for another year
The prices of different grades of pa
per have been raised by the paper
manufacturers. 'S''
1t is rumored that Count Herman
Wrangel, the secretary of the lega-
tion in Paris, will be appointed Swed-
ish and Norwegian minister to Berlin
Many business concerns in the large
cities. notably the daily newspapers
have raised the wages of their en-
ployes from 10 to 25 per cent.
The crop of new books came out
late the past season on account of a
bookbinders' strike early in the fall.
NORWAY.
The language reformers in the
storthing have been in bad pinch
They wanted to pass :sew election
law in Norwegian-Norwegian. But
this language is such an artificial pro-
duct that no member dared to handle
it in law, and it was resolved to have
the government furnish translation
of the Danish-Norgewian text as
passed by the storthing. The Nor.
acknowledgements tongue is such an
unsettled affair that it stands to rea.
son that no two persons can be found
who will translate the law alike, and
it is fact that only a minority of the
Norwegian people will understand the
language into which the law is to be
translated as wef as they do the orig
inal Danish-Norwegian text. A con.
servative paper comes close to the
truth what it states that the language
reform mountain in the storthing has
brought forth mouse.
The chances are than the contribu.
tions to the storm sufferers will not
be less than $15O,OCO.
The Y. NJ. C. A., of Kristiania, has
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