Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-12-14
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN The FAIHERLAND.

Principal Events That Have Occurred
in the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.
The Norwegian-Swedish consul gem
eral at Antwerp failed to furnish in.
formation which a Norwegian OBJ
tanned directly through the Dutch gov
eminent, and the Norwegian Leftist
papers exploit this as a proof Of the
necessity of establishing a separate
consular service for Norway. 1t is in
simulated that the consul general, by
withholding the desired information,
prevented the Norwegians from COM
peting with the Swedes in the markets
of Holland.
The budget of receipts and expendi-
lures for the coming yearis completed.
The estimated receipts are 1875, 11o, 900,
and the expenditures 1914, 67s, 600. These
amounts include ST., y17, 900 for new
railroads, which is to be covered by
loans. The receipts, as we'll as the
expenditures, show an increase of al
most a million dollars, as compared
with the budget for the present year.
The eldest son of the crown prince,
in the presence of the %storthing, has
sworn fidelity to the constitution of
Norway and the king of Norway and
Sweden. But this is not the oath re-
quired by the constitution of Norway,
and if the young prince is to serve as
regent he must be sworn again, and in
that oath only the constitution of Nor
way is mentioned. Some Norwegians
maintain that the oath just taken is
superfuous and that it only tends to
diminish the sanctity of the oath.
Premier Steen gave a public dinner
to about 60 persons, including the
prince regent, Prince Gustaf Adolf,
the members of the Norwegian cabi-
net, Premier Won Otter of Sweden and
the presidents of the Norwegian stor-
thing. The prince regent escorted
Miss Steen to the table. Premier Steen
proposed toasts to the king, the prince
regent and Prince Gustaf Adolf, and
the prince regent spoke a few words
in honor of the host.
The question of closing the stores at
an earlier hour was recently discussed
by the Kristiapia board of trade. A
majority of the speakers were in favor
of making the Seventeenth of May a
complete holiday, and of closing all
stores at five o'clock on the evenings
before the great holidays of the church
and at seven o'clock on all other even
ings, including Saturday evening.
Verdens Gang speaks very kindly of
the Boston Young Women's Christian
association and its efforts to aid for
eign girls upon their arrival in the
new world.
The average value of all the crops is
about $54. 600, 600. But on account of
a partial failure of the crops the value
for the present year is four or five
million dollars less. This reduction
will be severely felt before the crops
of 1901 are harvested.
The Oldest %inhabitant of Norway,
Beret Teigoen, Gudbrandsdalen, died
at the age of los years. She had been
blind and bedridden for a year or more.
A new pier in the harbor of Tromso
has just been officially dedicated. The
cost of it exceeds $50, 600.
A committee. was elected at an in
formal meeting in Kristiania to draft
a constitution for the first Scandina-
Wan society in that city. There are
many such societies in Sweden and
Denmark, and their chief aim is to
cultivate a better feeling among the
Scandinavian nations.
The Kristiania society for the adj
vancement of the ski sport has taken
up the work of the season with vigor
and enthusiasm.
On account of a strike in London,
the export of stone. to that city was
suddenly stopped, and many Norwe-
gian and Swedish stone cutters are idle.
SWEDEN.
The export of pork is decreasing at
a rapid rate. This is said to be largely
due to the high tariff on Indian corn.
This tariff has always been obnoxious
to the city population and the wage
earners in general, and the minister OF
agriculture is going to make inquiries
with a view to abolishing the tariff on
corn. )
Sixty German hares were imported
and let loose in the forests OF Nasty
holm.
The present tariff on Indian corn is
almost exactly one-half cent a pound.
The sugar beets yield about Is ton.
to the acre in the Ringsjo district.
The telephone department has been
raising the charges until the public
begin to ask whether it would not be
better to leave the telephone service
wholly in the hands of private com.
! panies. Some newspapers claim that
if the present charges are kept up in
definitely the very existence of the
government telephone system will be
in danger.
For lack of freight cars thousands Of
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