Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-12-28
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE 2AIHERLAyD.
Principal Events That Have ccurred
in. the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within 2 Week
OF So Just Past.

North Sea Within Week
or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.
The appropriation proceedings to pro-
cure ground for new railway line near
Malmo reveals the enormous value of the
best farm land in Southern Sweden. In
some localities the judges have awarded
the owners Of the land $721.46 per acre,
n the average for the whole line is a
trife over $437 per acre.
A. Hemming, a bright journalist. is
serving a term of six months at Lang
holmen. for having published a severe
criticism of the methods of a judge. He
is devoting his time to the study of law,
n those who know something about his
energy assert that he will not discontinue
his studies until he is admitted to the
bar.
King Oscar has instructed the mission
department of the Church of Sweden to
keep a&permanent mission pastor in CO.
penhagen. ss
During the stay of Prince Regent Gus
tat in Norway, the government of Swe-
den was conducted by Councillors WIKI
blad, GLEASON, Crusebj0rn and Husberg.
AS much as 81 a piece has been paid for
six-weeks old pigs in Southern Sweden
this season. while the usual price this
time of the year is about $1.50.
j. P. Holmberg, a member Of the
board of aldermen of Stockholm, has do
mated $4,000 to the city for the erection Of
a suitable statute in the center Of the
new fountain at Adolf Frederick's Mar
ket.
The railway stations at. Hessleholm,
ICclof on1 Mo rl<o rx1 oro 70 1o 1iobfo1 hu
acetylene gas.
Baroness Won Mecklenburg, the proprie-
tor of the Lung property in Ostergot-
land.
The government waterfalls committee
recommends that the waterfalls Of Saari-
koski, and Sankokoski, near G%ellivare, be
rented out to private parties for fifty
years at a rate of $500 a year, which is
about s2.75 per horse power.
= Large quantities of apples were pur-
chased for the North Standby whiskey
distillery. But the liquor produced was
of such a decidedly bad quality that
those who sampled it took sick. The pro-
prietors lost considerable sums of money
on this experiment.
By appointing a regular successor to
Captain Andree in the patent bureau,
King Oscar has definitely signiied his
conviction that the Arctic aeronaut no
longer is alive.
A disease supposed to be splenic fever
has broken out in Skog parish, Norrland.
The minister of foreign affairs has in
structed the Swedish minister to Germany
to notify the German government that
Baroness Helena Won Mecklenburg, the
owner of the Lung etate in Ostergot-
land. causes the Swedish authorizes great
annoyance by inducing German laborers
to emigrate to Sweden to work for her,
and by treating them in such a way that
they leave her service after a brief stay,
often compelling the Swedish authorities
to ship them back to Germany as va
grants. Again and again the lady has
been scored by the papers for her reck-
lessness, but the nuisance only seems to
be getting the more annoying.
1t pays. A company of shipowners in
Helsinborg bought a freight steamer
three or four years ago, and last year it
paid the last cen of it's cost. But last
summer it did even better, paying a divi-
dend of fifty per cent since April last.
The pastorate of the parishes. of Yes
sige and Askom, which for several gene
r~attons has been hereditary within the
Kjerrulf family, will henceforth be filled
in the usual name Z
The combined length of all the allies in
the Kungsholmen public school, Stock
holm, is two-thirds of an English mile.
The postmaster general roposes the
erection of a new post office building in
Malmo at a cost not to exceed 100000
The site is the Aegir property.
A Persian prince has arrived at Stock
holm for the purpose Of handing the
prince regent efaSweden a portrait of the
Shad of Persia. The portrait is set in a
frame composed largely Of diamonds.
The proposition to abolish the Office of
sexton in the state church of Sweden re.
calls an historic decree from the year
III. At that time King Charles XII had
been drafting SO hard, that soldiers were
becoming q scarce commodity. But the
great war king was bound to keep on
fighting, and as q means Of raising. a few
thousand recruits he decreed that the Of
flee Of sexton should be abolished, sub
jecting the sections to the regulations for
drafting men for the army. .
The Malmo sugar refining company has
produced 10,ess tons Of graduated sugar
during the past year.
King Charles XII resided in the old
cathedral school, st Adelsgatan, Lund.
during the years 1716-18. In memory of
this fact a slab of black marble has Just
been put up at said school. 1t bears the
following inscription: king Karl XII
had his headquarters here in 1716-1&."
The monumen was donated to the school
by Major Rob. Sodermark.
The names and titles of those whom
King Oscar decorated with orders Of hon
or on the occasion of his recent birthday
would fill two Of these columns.
The estimated expenses of the post Of
flee department for the year 1901 are
5000. 800. those of the yes 1902. $685.
600.
NORWAY.
Two children were burnt to death in a
house near Bodo. n their mother was so
badly burnt that she succumbed a few
hours later.
Aalesund, Nov. 6.-The herring catch
for the past few days has been magnif-
cent. Hundreds of boats nave been
loaded with big, fine herring. But the
goods cannot be disposed of rapidly
enough. If the new Romsdal railway had
been comDleted Aalesnnd would hova :,