Willmar tribune., 1900-03-14

The attempts to present Ibsen's lat
est drama, 'When We Dead Ones
Awake" on the stage, have been fail
ures in Norway and Denmark. The
characters of the play do not seem to
be in touch with life as it is lived in
our world at the threshold of the CEN
tury. The question is, ''Will normal
specimens of our race ever behave as
Rubek and Irene do? Or will the play
forever remain wild, barren fiction?
Numerous shoals of herring and cod
fish are approaching the west coast
for distance of several hundred Eng
lish miles, and the fishermen are max
ing extensive preparations for the win
ter catch.
The number of houses in Kristiania
Increased from S, 761 to 6,391 during the
years 1S94-9S, and the number of fam
lily accommodations from $4,000 to A.
600. But the demand for quarters was
so great that only trife over per
cent OF the rooms were unoccupied in
1898, as against almost per cent in
1894. The increase of the population
for the same period was $4,000, and of
this number 81, 900 moved in from other
places. Thirty-five per cent of the ac-
commodations consisted of only one
room, and the number of inmates in
this class of accommodations averaged
| almost four persons for each room.
No less than 100000 people lived in
crowded quarters. The rent is often
"a a month for one room and a kitchen,
and the house rent at times exceeds
one-fourth of the income of the in
mates.
A national labor convention resolved
to cooperate with the socialists, and
the leaders of the latter are figuring
on great gains in the immediate fu-
ture.
DR.. P. E. Gjertson sent one of his
children to the Ullevold hospital,
Kristiania, and did not treat the child
| himself because he considered it's all
| ment to be far from dangerous But
tie child was exposed to contagious
diseases from other children and died
from blood poisoning. The climate
has been hot at the hospital since that
! event and the prospects are that the
whole institution will experience
| revolution.
Prof. Ribbing of Lund, Sweden, re-
Gently addressed the Scandinavian
union of Copenhagen on marriage and
the social evil. He denounced the ease
with which marriages are contracted
and dissolved, and the generous ap-
plause at the close of his address indi-
Gated that he was in sympathy with
his audience.
Not few families in Copenhagen
are actually starving.
The Gaming and fsticuffing set-to
between Edward Brandes, Ph.D., and
the actor Schyberg has taken a new
turn. 1t was limited in these columns
that no serious results ought to be
expected. For time it looked as
though our prophecy would prove a
blunder. In some way Mr.. Schyberg
managed to get even with DR.. Brandes
by casting an ugly slur upon him
through a newspaper, Vortland. DR..
Brandes hotly demanded retraction.
but Mr.. Schyberg did not even make
an explanation, and the former chal-
lenged the latter to duel. The chal-
lenge was cheerfully accepted. DR..
Brandes chose pistols as weapons. The
cory spectacle was to take place at
Ermelund, near Copenhagen. The dis
tance between the combatants was 20
steps, and each of them had two car
tridges in his gun: They were placed
with their backs toward each other.
Upon signal from one of the referees
they faced each other, and the shoot
ing began. AS was expected by the
knowing ones, nobody was hurt. But
the shattered honor of two great men
was completely restored. Evil tongues,
however, are wagging worse than
ever. DR.. Brandes, the challenger, has
made is great paper, Politiken, a de-
nunciator of war between. nations and
duels between individuals. There is
also an ugly kink in the laws of Den
mark which says that duelling shall
be punished by Imprisonment for a
certain length of time. The endless
fun bred by this duel centers chiefly
around the literary critic and digni-
fed doctor of philosophy.