Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-09-07
DEVILS LAKE INTER OCEAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER !. 1000

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1t is rumored that Premier Bostrom
is going torresign on account of feeble
health and old age.
The Nistingso and vackelsang par
ishes have been quarantined on ac-
count OF the prevalence of the splenic
fever.
The receipts Of the Upsala singers
who visited the Paris exposition and
made a tour of northern Europe bid
fair to all expenses and leave q
handsome surplus.
King Oscar has formally agreed to
act as arbitrator Of the claims for COM
pensation for losses sustained by Brit
ish and German subjects and American
citizens in Samoa
Carl David, of Wirsen, is the head of
the so-called Nobel institute, a liter
airy bureau established by the late AL
fred Nobel, the millionaire philanthro-
pist, for awarding prizes for the best
literary productions of the world. The
adherents of the liberal, sensualistic
school do not take kindly to the APP
pointment of G. d. of Wirsen for this
position, because he is up in arms
against that school. In a review of
the works of Ellen Key, one of the
greatest lights Of this school, he ex-
pressed himself as follows: ga future
age will be astonished at the preten-
lions and the emptiness which are
combined in Ellen Keys bombastic
prose, in Werner Won Heidenstam's
poems of 1895, and in Oscar Levertin's
sensualistic lyrics, where the vapors
from the censor mingle with the per-
fumes from the rocco boudoir of es-
thetic sensualism. 1t was the Ellen
Keyan period in our literature, it was
the glorious era of self-assertion."
This comment alone shows that the
sensualistic school in Sweden and the
authors of Swine literature" in Dem
mark and Norway have good reasons
for fearing that they will receive scant
appreciation from the Nobel institute
as long as Carl David of Wirsen is at
the head of it.
Frau Won Mecklenburg, a German
lady who owns and is managing the
Lung estate, Ostergotland, frequent
ly receives attention in the news
papers. She seems to be wholly un-
able to get along with her servants,
and the result is that her hired men
and girls leave her after a brief SER
vice. Most of them are Germans. and
they very often have to leave their
countrywoman empty-handed. Being
without means of support, the poor
people are picked up by the authori-
ties and returned to Germany at pub
lie expense. Some public officers pc
titioned the king to compel Frou Won
Mecklenburg to refund the travelling
expenses advanced by the government;
but his majesty has answered that
these expenditures must be paid out of
a certain poor fund.
The committee elected to draw up a
law for enabling poor workingmen to
procure houses of their own will be
ready to report next spring, and the
king may present a complete system
to the riksdag of 1909.
The production of gold. for the year
1899 was a little over 200 pounds, val
ued at almost $40, 900; the production
Of silver a little over 21 tons, having
a value Of s45, 900; and the production
of copper 179 tons, or Sc IONS less than
in 1898. The number of men engaged
in the different branches of mining
last year was $1,000.
About $50 iron mines are operatedin
Sweden at the present time, and the
a~Opreoafe Drodnction If iron oro for
the year 1899 was 2,435, 900 tons, repre-
senting a value of $500, 900. The in
was 1872, 600 tons in one year.
The Hoganas Coal Mining company
has declared q dividend of 10 per cent.
Over 81, 900 was set aside for the bene-
fit of the workingmen, and $13, 500 was
added to the reserve fund. The net
profit for the past year was $50, 600.
DENMARK.