Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-12-28

The bulk of the Norwegian herring
shipped to london has been carried by
water to Hull and thence byErail to Lon-
don. Henceforth the goods will be
shipped by water directly to Lendon.
which will reduce the freight charges
somewhat. Haugesund, Norway, will be
the headquarters of this export trade.
About 800 tame reindeer were butchered.
in H~allingdal a few days ago. Two stool
companies keep several thousand head sfS
reindeer in that part Of the country, and
the investment is profitable. "
The constitutional committee Of the
Storthing has voted down all PROPOSE.
lions to authorize the king to Dissolve b
Storthing. 80
The railroad which is in the process OF
construction across the great mountain
range of southwestern Norway and which
lis to connect Bergen and Christiana is
La very Expensive enterprise. On h
stretch from Voss to Taueevand there
are ~ tunnels, which have a combined
length of IL English miles. The Gravehals
tunnel is about 3h English miles and will
be the longest one in Northern Europe.
The estimated cost of it is $500, 900. A
crew is working at each end of 1t, and
It will be finished in the spring Of 1909.
The rock consists of very hard granite
and gneiss, and for that reason the work
is not progressing so rapidly as the en-
gineers estimated. The elevation of the
tunnel is 1900 feet above the level on
the sea. The temperature in the tunnel
is from so to rs degrees above zero.
A. c.. Hansen, PHI. D., a young scholar
and author is dead. His best produce
tons treat of philanthrophical subjects.
For the first time in the history Of the
famous Sarbonne university in Paris) a
series of lectures is given on Old Morse
by one Of its professors. M. Duvan, the
lecturer, has spent some time studying
his subject in Iceland.
Norsk misunderstanding, the Society
for the Advancement of the Danish-Nor-
wegian Tongue, has issued six pamph-
lets in 125,OOO copies during the past year,
and one lecturer was kept in the field n
few weeks in the southeastern and the
northern part Of the country. The con-
tributions to the work amounted to ST.
$50.
After a dry period of five years,
Tonsberg has gone wet for the mex
five years, while Namsos will remain
dry for the same length of time. In
the latter town only SO out of LOO cleo
tors took the trouble to vote at all. and
the LOOP hat stayed away, were counted
in favor of status quo, that is, prohibi-
ton.
The Kristiania National theater gave a
surplus of 5000 0 for the past season.
Lillesand, a sea-coast town, has lost q
large part Of it's population because so
many people lave been thrown out Of
work lately. A considerable proportion
Of them nave gone to America or South
Africa.
Mr.. Liestol, the new president of the
odelsthing, uses a mixture of Norwegian
dialects and Danish-Norwegian in con-
Quoting the deliberations of that body.
He evidently makes an effort to put in
rank Norwegian words. On one occas-
ion he started with a Danish word, enst-
(enstemmig, unanimously, but stopped
and used the word samroystes, which
means the same thing but which is so
limited in it's application that thousands
Of Norwegians do not know it's meaning
when it is given alone. y
The new public high school at Sandf-
ford was dedicated Nov. 20. Rev. Wexei=,
sen, the minister of public instruction,
was in attendance.
1t is only fourteen years since President
Ullmann was denounced as a wicked
blasphemer because he said that the
Bible, as well as all other books, ought
to be read with a critical eye. Now Rev.
Farden, an elderly and highly respec4Ed
clergyman, has just stated in a public
lecture that there are Inconsistencies in
the Old Testament. And the public sur
vived the shock.