Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-20
SCANDINAVIA NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE fATHERLAND.
Prfncipni Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the f.
North Sea Within Week IA.
r.: or SO just Past.
SWEDEN.

sWEOEN 4.
Lapp from tJndersaker. Lemtland,
while walking IN. the woods, found a
marten in a hollow tree. He had no
weapon with him but he wanted the
valuable fur of the animal. Losing no
time. he pulled off his pan is, tied up
one of its legs and pulled 1t over the
opening in the hollow tree He next
proceeded to beat the tree with {. 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.
7 Of'all colors, light blue is claimed to
be the most di fficult to detect at great
distances. For that reason the Swed-
1sh 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
Anumber of laborers on the Ofoten
which is supposed to be due to poor
food, damp quarters aud foul air.
d The bog culture society held large
~ attended meeting atJonkop,ng. A.
Larson. an engineer, lectured on the
different methods of preparing peat for
fuel, and aintained that the old
method was still the safest of all
those known to him. 49,. .s.r"' /
There are carbide factories at Abby,
Trollhattan. Skram and Mansbo. and
their annual production is about Z. 900
tons. or between 3 and 4 per cent of
the whole production OF Europe. The
bulk of it is used III the preparation of
:aeetylene gas. a. "&@V
The price Of hardwood fuel ia about
twice as high in Southern Sweden
now as ten years ago. -.-... ..,t.5 -
Prof. Hildebrand, the national an
tiquarian. is inspecting the island OF
Hveen with the view of selecting
site for the monument which is to
be unveiled next fall, on the four hun
dredth anniversary of the death Ut
Tyge Brahe, the famous astronomer.
The Nordiska brass works at Yes
teras have received an order from The
government for 6,OOO,OOO cartridge
shells, to be delivered during the year
1901 .l..=~..
'elpad has voted the first $27O for the
esta bliShment of home for lnebrl-
.ates. #
The ruins of Fort Elfsborg were
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. "-# 22 see
Two Swedish deaf mutes who stop
ped at Mora were suspected OF being
Russian spies, and the sheriff OF the
place compelled one of them to take
the train to Gothenburg to prove that
he was we'll known citizen OF that
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The widows and orphans pension
fund of the clergy of Sweden is III a
fourishing condition: 1t was estab-s
lished in 1875. and 1850 contributors
are entitled to aid from it. During
the past year $113.500 was paid out
in pensions. The receipts, however,
were $4,000 in excess of this amount,
and the total assets exceed ~, 700 600.
A merchant at Visby had lot of
unique napkin rings sent him from
abroad. They were. made of Swedish
one and two ore copper coins which
had been soldered together and cleo
troplated with gold or silver. The
custom house officials did not dare to
admit the goods at their own risk aud
reported the matter to the mag,s
trates, who ruled that the goods should
not be turned over to the addressee.
+ The eighth general suffrage ma.
.tional convention was held at Linkop.
ing. Only 80 delegates were I'D at. y
tendance and vote was taken to dis.
con tinue the = organization and to
start new one on a broader basis.
A large part of the new piers Of the
Gothenburg harbor slipped and Sub
sided about two feet from its original
position. The disturbed portion is
about $50 feet long and IS feet wide.
The accident was due to the fact that
the foundation was built on soft clay.
No one was injured. III
NORWAY 54aSt s4Sf. n ass
"A 3-year-old girl living. near 4. Dram
men took number OF burning Goals
in her apron while her parents we're
outside and the apron caught Are. The
80 8 IA ~
tracted the attention Of pussers- by.
and the fire was put out, but not until &
the girl was so badly burned that she 4
died within "a hours.
The Nansen fund. which was started
after the return Of DR.. Nansen from
the Attic "a nrnm0te Scientific AZ Nor.