Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-07-18
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAlHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The expenditures of the national gov
eminent increased 6S per cent between the
years or 1881 and 1898, but the national
debt Increased u per cent Meanwhile
the national wealth increased only 80 per
cent and the incomes only % per cent In
1851 the national debt was 7.8 per cent on
the national wealth. in 1897, 1913 per cent
IN 1850 the expenditures Of the national
government were Is per cent, in 1897, II
per cent of the incomes. These figures
are not encouraging, to say the least.
L. F. Bratt, Kristiania, sued Eide Mag
nussen. publisher, for damages, the lat
ter having sold work of fiction in which
on OF the characters was named nils
Bratt.' The supreme court held that no
wrong had been done to plaintiff and that
1t could not be proven that the author
had intended to injure him, although he
had used his family name in book.
Prof. Chr Collin taxes DR.. George
Brandes, the noted Danish critic, to task
Tor having contributed very materially to
the growth Of the so called Swine liter
allure" in Norway. He also adds that this
peculiar literature can claim no distinc-
ton but that of it's pronounced obscenity
and swinishness.
South Trondhjem is going to have
permanent high school of it's own. 1t
will be located in Orkedalem
Gunnar Heiberg writes from Paris that
Premier Salisbury in conversation with
King Oscar tried to point out the similar
ity between Norwegian politics and Boer
politics, but the king replied with en-
phasis: II forbid you to make any COM
parison between the Norwegians and the
Beers And Salisbury had to pick up
another subject for their conversation.
The city of Gjovik has voted $4,000 for
the Northern railway. besides depot
grounds free of charge.
Only II per cent of the horses and 2h
per cent Of the cattle in Norway carry
insurance.
Fredrikstad has $500 voters.
The number of registered letters dis
tributed in Kristiania is about $4,000 a
month.
The rats are doing damage for tens Of
thousands of dollars In Kristiania, and a
war of determination may be declared
against them by means of paying g.
bounty for every rat killed.
The national government contributes
$3.50 to the support of each of the three
peoples high schools conducted by I'LL
mann of Seljord, Eskeland of Voss, and
Kuloy of Inderoen. Austlid of Orsten re-
ceives $1,000. Besides the above amounts
each school receives $675 as fellowships
for needy students.
Mr.. Schancke. formerly consul at Bill
bao, has been appointed consul general
for Norway and Sweden at Havre.
A member Of the Kristiania Y. M. C. A.
has donated a cottage and grounds to the
association. The property is located at
Vettre, Asker.
The Norwegian steamer Moss was
completely burnt up in the harbor of
Reykjavik, Iceland.
Insects have practically destroyed the
pear crop at Grenna.
Twentythree cows one OK and two
calves were burned to death in a fire
at Storstennes, near Tromso.
The government has appointed John
Lund the president of the lagthing. to
represent his country at the opening of
the Elbe and Trave canal.
Norway imported bread-stuffs for $l2,-
100000 in the year 1885,
The storthing has passed the following
budget for the coming year: Total re-
ceipts, s27,0S1 900. of which amount 49,
100000 was raised by loans. The custom
house receipts were put at 50, 900; the
liquor taxes at s2,511, O00 and the direct
taxes at $1,377, 600. Two hundred and sew
enty thousand dollars was set aside for
the invalid and old age insurance fund.
There is $7,000,0000 in cash in the treasury.
For the first time in the history of the
storthing an effort has been made in that
body to vote pension for one of its ex-
members. The attempt was defeated by
a vote OF IS to 40.
The storthing has elected Bjornson and
Lovland members of the Nobel commit
tee, the former receiving TO- the latter 63
votes.
The Central Halland Bank has been
started with capital stock Of $4,000.
The people of North Trondhjem are
in favor Of extending the railway from
Sunde through Snaasen and Grong, with
a branch line to Namsos.
The Leftists or administration party,
have increased the number Of voters by
some two hundred thousand. But so
poorly has the party been managed that
all parties seem to admit that the Leftists
will lose ground at the coming elections.
Norway imports potatoes for $275, 600 a
year, while the conditions are such that
by means Of proper push the country
might export potatoes. Fresh fish is also
imported in growing quantities.
SWEDEN.
Baron Lagerheim, the new minister for
foreign affairs, is getting into trouble.
The, Norwegians are apt to squirm no
matter what he does. But there is dis
cord in the Bostrom family. There is
every reason to believe that King Oscars
anti-Boer talk in England was endorsed
by Premier Bostrom. But in the midst
of this concord Baron Lagerheim said
that the king had simply expressed his
own personal sentiment.
]. A. Rylandcr, of Norrokoping, has in
vented a new method of preserving eggs
which is said to be by far the best ever
known.
The Swedish Tourist Club has sent an
expedition of three men to Lapland to
measure the height of Mount, Kebrikafsse
and to lay out new path to that noun
tain.
The new laws against the blind pig bus
ines have taken effect. They are more
severe than the old ones.
Four thousand three hundred tons of
iron ore was loaded on a steamer at
Lule in six hours and fifteen minutes.
This was considered fast work-in fact It
was record breaker in Sweden.
The king has decided that Swedish
goods reimported from abroad without
change In form shall be returned free OF
duty: but this exemption shall not apply
to goods kept abroad more than ten
years. I'LL. !. 49, .
D Hugo samzelins has returned from q
trip through the wild pine forest on the
Petchora river, northern Russia, and his