Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-12-14
Interesting Notes From Across the
1 Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FA1HERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
s In the Old Countries About the
= North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.

TINS young man as one OI tne uloSt
promising of the living Swedish
poets. Some of Nilsson's poems bear
a striking resemblance to those of
The winter rye grew very fast dur
ing October in certain localities in
Southern Sweden. and it is feared that
the roots may rot in the course of
the winter: unless. indeed, the ground
freezes hard before it is covered with
snow.
A very able writer contends that
Sweden cannot expect to survive a
blow from her great neighbor unless
the Swedes are filled with a patriot
ism OF a similar kind as that which
animated the French armies in the
iearly periods of the French revolu-
ltion. But the only way to kindle this
lofty, s~elf-forgetting and self-forsak-
ing patriotism in the breasts of the
Swedish yeomanry is to extend the
political rights to the toiling masses.
One writer. in short, holds that in the
great struggle for independence.
Sweden must count on moral, i'm
ponderable' forces, or else she may
perish from the rank of nations.
A cargo of brick was recently ex-
ported from Malmo to China.
AS o as two Russian saw flers
left the vicinity of Kar!sborg three
others turned up, and their move
ments clearly indicated that they
were studying the topography and
the roads of the country from a mill
itary point Of view.
Mr. Huffman, a telephone inspector
in Stockholm, has been appointed to
go to America to study telephony.
The new car ferry running between
Malmo and Copenhagen is so diff
cult to steer in stormy weather that
it's rudder must be replaced by a larg-
er one.
The crown prince was very success
full at a royal hunt near Skabersjo,
killing 2 rabbits and AZ pheasants.
The provincial legislature of NAL
mo has applied to the old savings
bank of Lund for a loan of $4,000.
but the application was declined.
An old spear-head.-At Ystad the
skull of a stag was found below a
natural layer of peat. Such finds are
not uncommon. But in this case an
uncut spear-head was standing
\ through the middle of the forehead.
\ The missile had been hurried with
such force hat the spear-head still
remains immovable, 1H inches of it
p%rotruding on the inside and 2 inches
on the outside.
Last spring about $50 quails were
imported from America to C%laestorp.
Sodermanland. They are doing so
dwell hat several thousand birds will
fbe imported next spring and distri-
buted in colonies in different parts OF
the country.
AS seven fisherman from Knippla,
near Gothenburg. were rowing from
their fishing smack to the landing
place the boat capsiZed close to the
shore, throwing all of them into the
Z sea One of them swan to the shore
and saved his life. but the others were
drowned.
A farmhouse in Lenhofda parish,
near Vexio, caught fire in the night.
and seven persons were burnt to
J%ohansson, came out of the flames
alive. but died an hour later.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever are
raging in J%onkoping, and several per-
sons have died from those diseases,
The public schools are closed.
A syndicate has been organized to
establish a Rowton house. or bach.
!, elor's hotel" in Gothenburg.
About $50 social democrats OF
G~othenburg held a mass meeting and
passed a resolution in which it was
laid down as an axiom of political
economy that the government is uh'
der obligations to see that the peo'
hlple are proitably employed all the
> time.
The health of Prince Engen is
steadily improving.
A resident of Stockholm who wishes
to remain unknown to the public has
donated $1,000 to charitable institu'
tons.
Y The best electric automobile at the
Paris exposition covered about A
English miles without renewing thu
batteries. A Swedish inventor hal
constructed an automobile which raj
SO English miles in rainy weathe
without any change in the accumula
tor The inventor claims hat he cal
s raise this record to about 100 Eng
y lish miles on a smooth, dry street
cadmium and is one-fifth lighter thai
the common ones, which are made o
lead The new automobile is eve1
claimed to be cheaper tina the oil.
ones Foreign electricians have al
ready arrived at Stockholm to gathe
!, information about this new wonder
W
Consul Reinert, of Moss, has bough
the greatAakeberg peat bog in Raade
The peet is 20 feet deep in som
places.
A large stone cutting es~tablishmen
at Fredrikstad has discharged "a
men.
Rev. Christofer Brun, a distinguish
clergyman, has written a vigorou
newspaper article in favor of substl
tuting 1.-The. kingdom OF the dead TO
.'hell' in the second article of tn
apostolic creed, and he scores the the
illogical faculty of the university TO
failing to correct a translation whlc
the faculty itself admits to be errone
Gus.
Arve Arvesen has suddenly becom
famous as a violinist.
p;ornstierne RiOrnsOn and wife hav