Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-12-21
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE RATHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
in the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So Just Past
sWEDEN

A Lapp from Ondersaker. Jemtland,
while walking in the woods, found q
marten in a hollow tree. He had no
weapon with him. but he wanted the
valuable fur Of theanimal. Losing no
time. he pulled off his pan is. tied up
one of its legs and pulled it over the
opening in the hollow tree. He next
proceeded to beat the tree with a stick
and made ali the noise possible. The
marten was frightened and ran into
the pants, only to be shut up by the
eager hands of the Lapp and beaten to
death before he had time to tear a hole
through the pants and escape.
Of all colors. light blue is claimed to
distances. For that eason the Swed-
ish soldiers may all have to wear light
blue uniforms at no distant day. A
large part of the cavalry are already
wearing uniforms of this color.
A number of laborers on the Ofoten
railway are suffering from scurvy,
which is supposed to be due to poor
food, damp quarters and foul air.
The bog culture society held a large
ly attended meeting atJonkoping.' A.
Larson. an engineer. lectured on the
different methods of preparing peat for
fuel, and maintained that the old
method was still the safest of all
those known to him.
There are carbide factories at Abby,
Trollhattan, Skram and Mansbo. and
their annual production is about 1000
tons. or between 3 and 4 per cent of
the whole production of Europe. The
bulk of it is used in the preparation of
acetylene gas.
The price of hardwood fuel is about
twice as high in Southern Sweden
now as ten years ago.
Prof. Hildebrand, the national an
tiquarian. is inspecting the island of
Hveen with the view of selecting a
site for the monument which is to
be unveiled next fall, on the four hun
dredth anniversary Of the death of
Tyge Brahe, the famous astronomer.
The Nordiska brass works at Yes
teras have received an order from the
government for 100000 cartridge
shells, to be delivered during the year
1901.
The temperance association of Med
elpad has voted the first $27O for the
establishment of a home for inebri
ates.
The ruins of Fort Elfsborg were
excavated last summer and great
quantities of relics were found, in
Guiding cannon-balls, horse-shoes, sill
YER and copper coins, brass plates
from helmets and other articles
Tons upon tons of human bones were
also unearthed.
Two Swedish deaf mutes who stop
ped at Mora were suspected of being
Russian spies, and the sheriff of tn
place compelled n of them to talk
the'train to ~Gothenburg to prove tina
he was a we'll known citizen of tina
municipality.
The widows and orphans pension
fund of the clergy Of Sweden is in
f%ourishing condition. 1t was estab
lished in 1875, and 1850 contributor
are entitled to aid from it. Durin,
the past year $113,500 was paid GU
in pensions. The receipts, howeve,
were $S4, 900 in excess of this amount
and the total assets exceed So, 7OO ,OO(
A merchant at visbys had a lot o
unique napkin rings sem him fror
abroad. They were made of Swedis,
one and two ore copper coins which
had been soldered together and cleo
troplated with gold or silver. Th
custom house officials did not dare t
admit the goods at their own risk an
reported the matter to the magis
trates, who ruled that the goods shout
not be turned over to the addressee.
The eighth general suffrage ns
tional convention was held at LinkoI
ing. Only 80 delegates were in Al
tendance and a ote vas taken to di'