Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-09-14
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
IN The FAlHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.

was attended by one thousand men,
protested against the severe sentence
passed by Stockholm judges against
those who took part in the recent
street railway strike at Sodermalm.
The harvest of honor reaped by
Sweden at the Paris exposition is COM
posed of % grand prizes, 81 gold med
ais, &c silver medals, 48 bronze medals
and SO mentions honorables." About
80 per cent. of all those that com
peted for prizes are included in this
record. A goodly number of strong
and noted firms did not enter the list
of competitors at all.
A big, fine reindeer was walking
along the railway track at Are as a
freight train came rushing along. IN
| stead of leaving the track, the animal
started to run ahead of the train, and
the race was kept up for two English
miles, the legs of the animal proving
to be fully as swift as the wheels Of
the engine.
A new syndicate, controlling a capi-
tai of $350,OOO, has assumed control of
the great plant of the Malmo Pulp
Manufacturing Company.
The twenty-ifth annual conference
of the Methodist church of Sweden
was held at Stockholm a few days
ago, Bishop I. H. Vinsen presiding.
In the curse of IS years the member
ship of the conference has grown
from 1867 to 17,493.
An edition of the Paris Illustrated
Figaro was devoted wholly to Sweden,
her exhibits at the exposition and her
king. Sweden and Swedish affairs
were put in a very favorable light.
Some Swedish paintings were repro
duced in the original colors.
The BURBERRY crop was fairly rich
in southern Sweden, but the lingon
(look and taste like cranberries, but
are smaller) will give very large re-
turns.
E. Osterman, a Stockholm painter,
who exhibited some of his paintings
at a Berlin art exposition, has re-
ceived a gold medal from Kaiser Will
helm.
The summer school at the Univers-
ity of Lund is attended by $50 school
teachers.
King Oscar is said to have invited
the emperors of Germany and Russia
to take part in a chase next fall in
the island of Hveen.
An electric motor and two cars
loaded with rock broke through the
bridge across the Svart river at Box
holm, and H. Kant and C.. Haglund
were killed.
A. Hollberg, manager of the Orgryte
poor farm, decided to infict bodily
punishment upon a member of the
colony. The latter resisted, however,
and an u~nscientifc wrestling match
was the result. The boss was victor
ious. Being exhausted by the strug-
gle, he sat down to rest. But he never
rose again, heart failure putting an
end to his life there and then.
The papers most respectfully refer
to the hunting trips of the crown
prince. But not a line, not a word
about the animals forwarded by, him
to happier hunting grounds. Whence
this gap in the accounts?
A snowy slower parade" was an.
nounced to take place Aug. 26, at
Malmo-the first one of it's kind in
the Scandinavian countries.
+. A. Stromgren, an habitual som.
nambulist in Malmo, had to be
watched by his friends in the night.
But the other night he left his bed
%unnoticed, walked out through an
open window, fell down headlong
upon the pavement and was killed.
The Maglarp congregation, near
T%relleborg, resolved to build a new
church on the land of one Hans Pers.
son. The owner refusing to sell land
for a site, the congregation petitioned
the king for permission to procure the
land by means of appropriation. But
the king failed to see the necessity OF
such obnoxious proceedings, and the
congregation will have to look around
for another site.
In Ostergotland many farmers
judge the grain crop by the number OF
times the seed grain is multiplied. An
eight-fold or two-fold return of rye is
a good crop. But this years crop runs
from ffteen-fold to seventeen-fold,
and in a few instances the seed grain
was multiplied twenty-five times.
NORWAY.
M. Halset writes from Moscow that
Russia is the most natural market fol
Norwegian exports, and he is of opin,
ion that proper attention to this mar.
ket on the part of Norwegian export.
ers would soon give handsome re.
turns.
The Blue Ribbon societies of Nor,
way have a membership of about
$500.
A swede who heard Bjornson speak
on St. Olaf's Day, at Trondhjem
writes to a Stockholm daily: despite
his sixty-eight years he is still able tc
captivate a large audience in a unique
way by his powerful personality and
his superior intelligence. We may
think what we please about his poll
tics, but the enchanting warmth
which wells forth from his heart
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