Willmar tribune., 1900-03-21
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across tho
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS In THE FAIHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.


An expert ski man who was prac-
tlclng on Stenrud Hill at Stoke, made
leap of almost 100 feet. But as he
struck the ground one of his foot
straps broke, and he broke his leg in
two places.
Our language reformers are very ac-
tive since Bjornson "took the stump"
in favor of Danish-Norwegian and
against the language of purifiers
(Maalstraverne). Den Tide Mai (the
seventeenth of May) is the organ of
the language purifiers. The capital
stock of this paper has been increased
by $25,0o0, and an expensive literary
bureau has been established in Kris
tiania.
Thorvald hammers, the famous bal
lad singer, has been invited by the
Scandinavian Union of Upsala to give
a Norwegian ballad concert in that
city.
The railway traffic was effectually
demoralized by snowstorm through
out southern Norway, from the 18th
to the 10th of February. In some
places the snowdrifts covered the tele-
graph wires, and many trains re-
mained immovable in the snowdrifts
for hours.
The king, the queen, the crown
prince, the duke of Skane and Prince
Eugen made trip to Norway on the
second of March.
The Norwegian colony in Dresden,
Germany, took advantage of a snow
shower of few days ago by arrang-
ing regular Norwegian ski tourna-
ment. The longest standing leap was
sixty feet. This was some thirty or
forty feet short of what is expected in
Norway, but the natives of Dresden
looked upon the game as great
corker.
The records of the public employ
ment bureau in Kristiania for the
month of January show that male
help was veritable drug on the mar
ket, while the demand for female help
was greater than the supply. There
were 800 applications for places for
men, but only 2O6 men obtained en-
ployment. Meanwhile 2o4 parties ap-
piled for female help, but only los
of them got what they wanted. The
most of those who applied for places
were residents of Kristiania.
There is no longer any question but
that the hard times have given the
socialists of Kristiania a great boom.
The announcement that the executive
committee of the labor unions had re-
solved to support the social democrat
ic party was surprise to many, and
it was predicted that the rank and
file of the labor unions would go back
on the action of their leaders. Now
the matter has been acted on by the
labor unions. But the unions, instead
of undoing the work of their leaders,
have declared themselves most en-
phatically in favor of supporting the
social democratic party.
The Kristiania peace society cele-
brated Washington's birthday by
holding a mass injecting.
The Stalheim hotel, the largest in
the country, has been destroyed by
fire.
A Swedish paper claimed that, con-
trary to a definite mutual agreement,
the cartridges made for the Krag-
Jorgenson rifle of the Norwegian
army, could not be used for the Maus-
er rifles of the Swedish army. A few
samples of ''official'' cartridges were
ordered by telegraph from Kristiania
to Stockholm, and they were found to
fit the Mauser rifles. This proves that
the story was piece of malicious fic-
ton.
A number of persons in Jonkoping
received Aattering offers from a Ger
man lottery company for furnishing
names of well-to-do people. Those
who received the offers thought they
might as we'll make a few kroner
But as they did not care particularly
to have their friends send money to
a questionable German concern they
sent names of inmates of the poor.
house, adorning them with high
sounding titles. In a few days the
poor people received glowing letters
urging them to invest their spare
money in the lottery.
A sixty-six year old lady in Adaler1
forests took sick and had to go to bed
Two log cutters who were stopping at
her house knew that the old lady was
exceedingly fond of playing cards, and
determined to try to cure her by means
of her own weakness. When asked il
she would take a game she was hardly
able to answer, but her reply came in
the affirmative. At first she was only
a silent spectator, but gradually her
whole attention was absorbed in the
play. The two men now assisted he1
to the table, and they kept up the fur
until three o'clock in the morning. BY
this time the old lady had cleaned uT
several kronor, and, what was still
more gratifying, she was perfectly
well, and has been so up to this writ
ing.
Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian
| Arctic explorer, recently said to a cor
respondent of the Berlin Lokalanzei
ger in regard to the fate of Andree:
II believed as long as possible in hi:
return, making the most liberal al
lowance of time for his temperance
but no longer have any hopes. I d.
not believe that he is living; other
wise we should certainly have heart
of him. All that can be looked for
ward to now is the recovery of hi
BODY
The king has ordered the printing
of 10000 copies of an essay written b,
DR.. r. A. Won Post on the question
What can we do against tuberculo
sis?"