Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-10-12
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
IN THE FA1HERLAyD.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
OF So just Past.
NORWAY.

OF So just Past.
NORWAY.
If we are to believe a Kristiania daily
the next stor:hing will be composed
chiefly of IAN lndistinct mass of medi-
ocrities." The general trouble seems
to be that there are too many plain la
borers to suit the progressive element
Even at this early date there are
thousands of workingmen in the cities
who look forward to the coming win
ter with grave apprehension because
their prospects for remunerative en-
ployment are poor.
An illness which is not considered
dangerous has compelled Bjornson to
remain in bed for a few days.
A number of young authors and ar
fists have commenced TO raise funds
for the erection of a monument on the
grave of Sigbjorn O%bstfelder. the poet,
the poet who died q few weeks ago at
the early age of "a years.
The retail price of tomatoes in the
Kristiania market is 10 cents a pound.
They were raised in Norway.
A shipyard at Arendal has just
turned cut a new steel steamer of l.
$40 tons. 1t is to be employed in the
Spanish trade and is made for carry
ing both passengers and freight.
Kristiania seems to be unable to con-
sumo all the vegetables raised for that
market last summer, and the bottom
has dropped out of the prices.
The kristiania board of health has
collected a mass of statistics from the
life OF the inhabitants of the metrop-
oils. No figures are more interesting
than those showing the proportionate
number of births and deaths in the
different portions of the city. In the
parish of Trogner, for instance, there
are only IS persons to the acre and 1874
to every 100 rooms, while Grunerlok-
ken has ITS persons to the acre and 246
to every 100 rooms. But the forces of
life seem to be more i%mpetuous in the
most densely populated portions of the
city. The statistics bearing on this
particular subject are indeed curious.
The board of health went to work and
counted all the women between the
ages of 20 and so years and compared
their number with the number of
births during the year. In the parish
of Trogner there were only 81 births
for every 1000 ome of said ages,
while in Grunerlokken the number
was 200. In other words, the natural
increase by births was more than 100
per cent greater in a typical ''slum"
district'than in a typical fashionable
quarter, But the Grim Reaper almost
equalizes the difference. The number
of deaths per 1000 inhabitants being
II in Grunerlokken and 9 in Trogner.
1t will be seen that there is still a mar
gin of about 5 per cent in favor of the
''slums," as compared with the upper
1900" The above parishes were Sc
lected because they ware the extremes.
But the rule holds good throughout
the entire city.
About 60 Holland gold coins from
the nth century were found in an ex-
cavation on the site of an old monas-
terry in Bergen. Parts of the ruins of
the monastery extend under the fort.
The officers of a Danish squadron
which visited Kristiania met with an
extremely cordial reception. After re-
turning. to Denmark they expressed
their appreciation and gratitude in a
letter to the Swedish minister of for
eign affairs. This did not please the
Norwegians, who claim that Sweden
had nothing to do with the affair.
King Oscar decorated the Duke of
A lr,,1yi NTH <ha C-n1;ch 1rlar ~ Tho
Seraphim. He did this in Norway,
and many Norwegians feel sore be-
cause the duke did not receive the
Norwegian order of st. Olaf.
Many fields of grain even in the
southern part of the country were un.
cut up to the 18th of September.
What had been cut vas quite satisfac'
tory in all respects. The potato crop
is expected to be rather light, because
the growth of the vines was badly
checked by early frost.
A cablegram from London gives out
the improbable story that Fridtjof
Nanscn and the Duke of Abruzzi have
agreed to undertake a joint expedition
into the North Pole regions.
The mackerel catch in the North
sea has been fairly good. In many
cases the fishermen have made S25 a
week, or even more.
The Kristiania woman's suffrage
union has provided for instruction in
dressmakiEg, and a class of eleven
has just finished a course.
The total imports during the months
of January to July were about $1,000,
600 above those of the corresponding
period in 1899; but the increase of the
exports was almost 81, 600, 900, making
the balance of trade more favorable to
Norway.
SWEDEN.
The railway department has granted
licenses to certain parties to sell
liquor in dining cars on the line run
ming between Stockholm and Malmo.
An interesting work of sculpture has
been found in a house at 81 Regerings'
-a4,1 Sk~nllz1, - II rar~oeantc RI.