Willmar tribune., 1900-01-03
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sonnd was about 20 per cent larger for
the month Of October ii 1899 than IL
1893.
About twenty wild swans have stayed
in n Ringsjoa (ake) in southern Sweden
this fall.
Mauritz Rubenson, one Of the fore
most newspaper reporters Sweden ever
produced, is dead.
Princess Thyra of Denmark is visit
ing with the royal family of Sweden
Cash has been lacking for paying the
laborers on the Ofoten railway But
in order to keep the work going with
out interruption time checks have been
issued.
Some of the leading banks in Swe-
den have made arrangements by which
the national bank is to serve as a
clearing house.
At Stensele, Jemtland, two girls are
working in the pineries, doing the
same work as men.
A newspaper in Jemtland states that
state church preacher in that part of
the country recently referred to the
preachers of the independent churches
thus: depart from us, ye apostles of
Satanv To make the expression still
more emphatic he let his hand fall on
the pulpit with heavy blow.
The relation between the stonecut-
ters and their employers is yet strained
and the stonecutters are making in
quiries in regard to prospective aid
from abroad in case a lockout is de-
clared in Sweden. About 10000 men
are involved in the trouble.
DENMARK.
q. Amdrup, the Greenland explorer,
has bought Antarctic, the steamer
which Prof. Nathorst, the Swedish ex-
plorer, used on his expedition to north
eastern Greenland. Amdrup proposes
to use the Antarctic for his next expe-
dition to Greenland. The main fea-
lures of his plan is to enter at Scoresby
sound and to disembark and travel
south by sleigh or boat to Angmag-
salil, where the Antarctic is to receive
the expedition again. If this latter at
tempt fails the ship is to return, and
the expedition must spend the winter
in Greenland.
Niels Faarup has made himself a
benefactor to mankind by devising a
new method of attaching artificial
limbs to the stump. Instead of straps
he uses rubber tubes which are tight
ened by blowing air into them, and
loosened by letting the air out. The
| invention has been patented in four
teen countries.
The English are again saying nice
things about the Danes and their insti-
tutions. The London Standard, for
example, points to the social and econ
omical progress made by the rural pop
ulation. Zone hundred years ago.
the paper says, 'Denmark was one of
the poorest countries in Europe. Now
it is comparatively the richest of all
next to England. The rapid develop
ment, as solidly founded as it is rapid,
is almost unique in the economical his
tory of modern Europe" Pollard
Byles, member of parliament, visited
Denmark last summer. He became so
interested in Denmark that upon his
return to England he communicated
his Impressions to his countrvmen in a
number of public lectures. Below are
given few extracts from what he
said: "Copenhagen has in many re-
spects attained that ideal of a garden
city which has foated before the minds
of many Englishmen.-The country is
saturated with a democratic sentiment.
The high culture of the people is a
splendid result of it's education" Mr..
Byles admitted that the national
wealth of Denmark was only 81, 100 per
inhabitant, while that of England was
$1,000. But in view of the fact that
England has much larger proportion
of millionaires than Denmark, the
common people of Denmark are the
wealthiest in Europe. He also admit
ted that Denmark enjoys a higher
standard of education than does Eng.
land.
The general plan. of the work in the
higher institutions of learning is ad.
mitted to be obsolete. In the course
of the past few years, repeated at.
tempts have been made to introduce
timely reforms, but SO far without sue.
cess. The aim of those who favor
changes is to expand the mathematical
and scientific branches at the expense
| of Greek and Latin.
Two hundred dock laborers at the
Copenhagen free harbor quit work
Their employers had been paying by
the hour, but the laborers demanded
work by contract.
The Danish government, by way o1
experiment., employed number o1
convicts last summer in clearing and
breaking new land. The experiment
was successful, and the result is that
requests for further information in re
gard to the matter have been received
from different parts of the globe. The
government of Russia is already per
fecting plans for employing convict:
to build roads through the Russian
forests.
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