Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-27


shipped to London has been carried by
water to Hull and thence by rail to Lon.
don Henceforth the goods will DO
shipped by water directly to London,
which will reduce the freight charges
somewhat. Haugesund, Norway. will be
the Headquarters Of this export trade.
About 800 tame reindeer were butchered
in Hallingdal few days ago. Two stock
companies keep several thousand head Of
reindeer in that part of the country, and
the Investment Is. profitable
The constitutional committee Of the
Storthing has voted down all PROPOSE
lions to authorize the king to dissolve the
Storthing. g
The railroad which is in the process Of
construction across the great mountain
range of southwestern Norway and which
is to connect Bergen and Christiana is
a very expensive enterprise. On the
stretch from Voss to Taugevand there
are u tunnels. which have a combined
length of 70 English miles. The Gravehals
tunnel is about 31a English miles and will
be the longest one in Northern Europe.
The estimated cost Of it is 100000. A
crew is working at each end of 1t, and
it will be finished in the spring Of 1903
The rock consists of very hard granite
and gneiss, and for that reason the work
Is not progressing SO rapidly as the en-
gineers estimated. The elevation of the
tunnel is 1900 feet above the level Of
the sea. The temperature in the tunnel
is from go to rs degrees above Zero
A.. G. Hansen, Phi. D., a young scholar
and author is dead. His best produce
tons treat of philanthrophical subjects.
For the first time in the history of the
famous Sarbonne university in Paris) a
series of lectures is given on Old Morse
by one of it's professors. NJ Duvan, the
lecturer, has spent some time studying
his subject in Iceland. RI. PIX r..
Norsk notwithstanding, the Society
for the Advancement of the Danish-Nor-
wegian Tongue, has issued six pamph-
and one lecturer was kept in the field a
few weeks In the southeastern and the
northern part of the country. The con-
tributions to the work amounted to ST.
$50. 49,. r.. y. & III 81. y
After dry" period of five years,
Tonsberg has gone ''wet'' for the next
five years, while Namsos will remain
dry for the same length of time. In
the latter town only 9s out of LOO cleo
tors took the trouble to vote at all. and
the LOOP that stayed away, were counted
in favor of status quo, that is, prohibi-
ton. 80 >.- .i-f
The Kristiania National theater gave a
surplus of $4,000 for the past season.
Lillesand, a sea-cOast town, has lost a
large part of it's population because so
many people have been thrown out of
work lately. A considerable proportion
of them have gone to America or South
Africa. ~.r' -' r. .'.s..
Mr.. Liestol, the new president of the
odelsthing, uses mixture of Norwegian
dialects and Danish Norwegian in con-
Quoting the deliberations of that body.
He evidently makes an effort to put in
rank Norwegian words. On one occas-
ion he started with Danish word, enst-
(enstemmig, unanimously, but stopped
and used the word samroystes, which
means the same thing but which is so
limited in it's application that thousands
of Norwegians do not know it's meaning
when it is given alone. &s4 + r.
\ The new public high school at Sande-
ford was dedicated Nov. 20. Rev. Wexel-
sen, the minister of public instruction,
was in attendance. - III = I ~
1t is only fourteen years since President
Ullmann was denounced as a wicked
blasphemer because he said that the
Bible, as we'll as all other books, ought
to be read with a critical eye. Now Rev.
Farden, an elderly and highly respected
clergyman, has just stated in a public
lecture that there are inconsistencies in
the Old Testament. And the public sur
vived the shock. ~ ~ L#&