Willmar tribune., 1900-01-03
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Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.

Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN The FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred in
the Old Countries About the
Norti, Sea Within a Week
z1.."..- 4or;So just Past.
NORWAY.
The Norwegian Mission Association
is facing a deficit of almost $4,000 at
the close of the year.
Emil Stang, who as premier has
been at the head of the government of
Norway at two different times, stated
in public address that the condition
of the national treasury is much
worse than it really is. Indeed, he
afterwards excused himself by point
ing out that the last budget was
badly bungled up. But that rather
made matters worse. If Emil Stang,
by far the most prominent statesman
IN the Conservative party, is not sharp
enough to grasp the actual condition
OF the national treasury, what must
foreign capitalists think of Norwe-
glan financiers as class?
Huge piles of refuse at the mouth
OF the Lillebo galena mines on the is
land of Stord are on fire. The burn
ing material is the sulphur with which
the rocks and gravel are mixed up.
The smoke is dense, and the trees in
the neighborhood have been partly
killed. No work can be, done in the
mine on account of the smoke. Great
masses of water have been poured on
the refuse piles, but this acts like
fuel. Preparations are now being
made for turning the course of little
river on to the fire, and this is ex-
pected to quench it.
Women are at par, men way below
The report of the public labor bureau
in Kristiania for the month of October
presents some interesting figures
There were so men and 355 women
who applied for positions; 317 of the
latter and "a of the former obtained
work; thaat is, only 33 per cent of the
men obtained employment, while So
of the female applicants were success
full.
Verdens Gang is trying to make out
that if the theories of the language
reformers (maalstraverne) are to be
practaical no less than three Ian
guages will have to be used in the
public schools: 1. The local dialect is
to be used in the oral instruction. 2.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS book-lan-
guage in the books. 3. The exer-
cises. On the face, this looks like
three languages. But in reality No.
includes an indefinite variety of dia-
lects for the different sections of the
country. Indeed, this language re-
form enterprise opens up a rich field
-embarras de richesse, as the French
would say.
The title of Ibsen's new drama is
''When the Dead Awake" 1t appeared
December 10 in Norwegian, English,
German, French and Russian, and it
will soon be published in Dutch, Hun
garian, Bohemian, Polish and Italian.
The sale of the New Testament in
the Norwegian tongue has been great
er than usual in the course of the past
year.
The language reformers are contem-
plating the erection of a statue in
memory of Ivar Aasen, the great lin
guist and photographer. a., -. ..... 49,.
A syndicate of Scandinavian and for
eign banks has agreed to furnish a loan
of 30, 600. 900 kroner (Ss, 100, ,OOO) to the
Norwegian government. The rate of
interest is 81 per cent, but the rate of
discount will not be disclosed until
the bonds are signed. A large part of
the loan will go to the construction of
new railroads. The principal is to be
paid in installments in the course of so
years.
Gunnar Heiberg is an author of the
realistic school. And we'll he earns
that reputation. Read the following
from his pen: '* life lived
near the earth, under the open sky, in
elementary lust and lewdness, in a
struggle for the belly, above the laws,
beyond the conceptions of citizen"
When the women demand the same
right to vote as men they are now often
met. by the remark: See how the
women voted on the saloon question!
The women voted against the saloons,
of course.
The conservatives threaten to use
''union mark" in their flags even after
the pure flag has become the legal
commercial flag of Norway.
Kristofer Janson took violently sick
while at Tonsberg. It seems to have
been a case of poisoning, but his life
is out of danger.
A language reform club will be for
mally organized in Romsdal.
When the Norwegian members of
the cabinet failed to have Christopher
sen appointed minister to London
they protested to Bostrom, the Swed.
ish premier, that it was IAN unjust in
suit to highly esteemed and meri.
torious official, an unwarrantable way
of ignoring the demands of the busi-
ness interests, and a wrong against
Norway" The protest was spread on
the minutes of the session of the cabi-
net. ~.s.-..
- --zz SWEDEN.
The stonecutters of southern Sweden
are threatened with general lockout
which may involve 1000 men. The
wageseof these men amount to about
I $55, 900 . week. s =.
$,z The names. and titles of those who
were honored< with decorations of or
ders by the king on his birthday would
fill two and a half columns in news