Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-13
SCANDIlNI WAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
PrincipaI Events That Have Occurred
IN the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

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SWEDEN.
Professor Oscar Levertin has writ
ten critical review Of the works 81
X. G. Ossian-N ilsson, characterizing
this young man as one of the most
promising of the living Swedish
poets. Some of Missions poems bear
a striking resemblance to those OF
Rudyard Kipling and Gustaf Froding.
The winter rye grew very fast dur
ing October in certain. localities in
6outhern 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. Il
A very able writer contends that
Sweden cannot expect to survive a
blow from her great neighbor unless
the Swedes are filled with patriot
ism of a similar kind as that which
animated the French armies in the
early periods of the French revolu-
ton. But the only way to kindle this
lofty, self-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 y" 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 soon as two Russian saw flers
left the vicinity of Karlsborg three
others turned up, and their move
ments clearly indicated that they
were studying the topography and
the roads of the country from a mil
ltary point of view. .<,g g..t.s,>. s.fgy. Il;
Mr.. Huffman, telephone inspector
in Stockholm, has been appointed to
60 to America to study telephony.
The new car ferry running between
Aa]mo and Copenhagen is so diff
cult to steer in stormy weather that
its rudder must be replaced by larg-
er one. @,|" ss2 sri t.4>fttGi d
The crown prince was very success
full at a royal hunt near Ska bersjo,
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
uncut ,spear-head was standing
through the middle of the forehead.
The missile had been huried with
such force that the spear-head still
remains immovable, IA inches of it
protruding on the inside and 2 inches
ON the outside. ..,. .... ...ss1..,s.,.-.s
Last spring about $50 quails were
imported from America to Claestorp.
Sodermanland, They are doing so
well that several thousand birds will
be imported next spring and ,distri-
buted in colonies in different parts of
the country. 4
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
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
death. The owner of the .house, K.
Johansson. came out of the flames
alive, but died an hour later.
j Diphtheria and scarlet fever are
raging in Jonkoping, 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 hoter' in Gothenburg.
About $50 social democrats of
Gothenburg held mass meeting and
passed a resolution in which it was
laid down as an axiom of political
economy that the government is I'M
der obligations to see that the peo-
pie are profitably employed all the
time. @ ~ Go .7It
The health of Prince Engen is
steadily improving.
S# A resident of Stockholm who wishes
to remain unknown to the public has
donated $1,000 to charitable institu-
tons. ~ t.. 80
The best electric automobile at the
Paris exposition covered about 40
English miles without renewing the
batteries. A Swedish inventor has
constructed an automobile which ran
80 English miles in rainy weather
without any change in the accumula-
tor. The inventor claims that he can
raise this record to about 100 Eng
lish miles on a smooth, dry street.
His accumulation is made of silver and
cadmium and is one-ffth lighter. than
the common ones, which are made of
lead, The new automobile is even
claimed to be cheaper than the old
ones. Foreign electricians have al
ready arrived at Stockholm to gather
information about this new wonder.
NORWAY, Sa S
Consul Reinert, of Moss, has bought
the great akeberg peat bog in Raade.
The peet is 20 feet deep in some
places. s ss3
A large stone cutting estab lishment
at Fredrikstad has discharged 275
men. ;5Gf55 If 4s5 5s5.G s
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