Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-08-31
SWEDEN.


The government railroads need a
new depot BUILDING at Eslof, and it is
estimated that the cost of the new
plant will be approximately $500, 600.
Six lines center in this city.
About 80 patients have already been
admitted to the new sanitarium for
consumptives at Halahult, and 80 APP
plications have been refused.
The government waterfalls commit
tee has found that the waterfalls of.
northern Sweden may be utilized for
railway traffic. The Edefors, at Lule,
is capable of furnishing 46, 900 horse
power. The committee favors the on
struction of electric power stations at
this and other waterfalls. It will re-
quire only a partof the available water
power to run all trains on the govern
ment railroads of northern Sweden.
Sweden had S19, $50 children between
the ages of z and Il years in 1897, and
the statistics prove that $50, $40 of them
attended school.
Pearls have been found in Lagan
river. Their commercial value range
from 81 to 81 apiece.
A little girl at Zinkgrufvan was
choked to death by a pea which
dropped into her windpipe.
Half a dozen members of the riks-
dag are said to have bought farms in
the Tome valley, in the extreme north,
for the purpose of sending southern
farmers up there to teach the old in
h. hs%o- MIC how ~ All kh4 -s1,nl o-l
manage a farm.
A royal elk hunt will take place at
Hunneberg, Sept. II. The king and
crown prince and some forty other
nimrods are expected to be there.
Sven Hedin writes from Jangi-Koll,
Central Asia, May Is, that he is going
to enter the dangerous and mysterious
Thibet next winter.
Three of the members Of the COM
mlttee appointed to prepare a new
version of the Bible are stopping at
Are, Jemtland. The books of Moses
are already in type and the ''poetic'
books are ready for the press. But the
chances are that it will take q good
while before the whole Bible is fin
ished.
A new railway company has been
organized for the construction and
operation of a railway from Hvellinge
to Skanor and Falsterbo.
Prof. Sven Gustaf Hedin, professor
of experimental physiology in the Uni
versity of Lund, has been appointed
professor of pathological chemistry at
tho -1onno~ inc<s<,,<o T.o~l@- Thse
appointment is looked upon by the
scientific world as very tlattering, and
the salary attached to the position is a
princely n
The most violent thunder storm of
the season passed over Skien and vi
cinity Aug. s. The Gjerpen church
building was struck by lightning. The
tower was greatly damaged. Six tour
lists from Bergen were in church at the
time, three of whom were struck, and
one of them badly injused. At Aafors,
Salem parish. three persons were seat
ed at the dinner table. Anthree were
knocked down by a thunderbolt, and
two of them were singed, but none of
them were dangerously hurt. Two
dogs lying under the table were killed.
The safety appliances on the telephone
wires we're destroyed, and many poles
were shattered by lightning.
Material for labor. statistics have
been collected on a very comprehensive
scale, no less than 49, 600 workingmen
having been examined. A corps of
st~atisticians are engaged in elaborat-
ing the returns, and the results will
be- published next winter.
A housewife in Skane lost five silver
spoons, and discharged her servant,
who was the only person who had ac-
cess to the spoons. But a few weeks
later the spoons were found in a mag
pies nest in a tree. The bird had
used them for building material.
Acopy of the oldest seal of the city
Of Malmo has been found in the ma
tional archives, Stockholm.