Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-07-19

The weight Of the total imports for the
year 1900 was 3,024,2s4 tons, and their
value $50, 1916 S37. The weight and the
value of the exports for the same time
were 2.70s.4 27 tons. n s34,545. 52S.
Gen. F. p. L. Naser died at the age OF
IS years.. He served in the army from
1887 to 1884, and for a period of fifty years
was q very useful public man.
On June IA. 1851, Jews were permitted
to live in Norway by an amendment to
the constitution. Even Saxlund,. a menu
Der of the storthing. who voted for that
amendment. is still living.
Thu Gu~dbrandsdalen Packing Company
has been organized at Lillehammer with
q capital stock of $4,000.
Haying was commenced as early as
june 10 in some localities around Bergen.
The value OF the real estate owned by
the city of Kristiania, not including
wharves, water rights, water mains.
sewers, street>railways. ETC., exceeds $11.-
100000. This property is distributed
among ss4 separate parcels Of ground.
The und raised by the students for .
monument to Nordraak, the composer Of
the tune to 'Ja, vielsker," amounts to
$3.50.
In 1893 and 1899 Norway imported about
10000 dozen of eggs per month during
the summer season. The newspapers
called. attention to this fact and con-
tended that it would be an easy matter
to supply this market without going
abroad for a single egg. The change
has been astounding. Last year the i'm
ports were only 5000 dozen a month, and
this year the imports are not worth mem
tioning. 1t is the thrifty farmers Of Jad-
eren who have caused the change, many
Of them keeping from 1000 to 1900 hens.
Norway has one postofice for every
$40 inhabitants, and s.ooo.oo copies Of
newspapers and magazines are sent
through the mails every year.
The ,stonecutters at Grorud demanded
higher wages, and the refusal of the em-
ployers to grant the demand led to q
general strike.
A horse was bitten by a viper while
grazing on the Vesterlund farm In Rel
lingen, and the poison injected was suf-
fcient to kill the horse in four days.
America n all the great countries of
Europe are sending large numbers. Of
tourists to Norway this summer. A larg-
er proportion of the tourists than usual
seem to be striking for the interior OF
the country this season.
The newspaper publishers of the do
cese of Tromso held a convention at
Bodo to organize a press association for
that diocese.
Otto Blehr, a member Of the Norweg-
ian cabinet, who resides in Stockholm,
and his wife, Randi. nee Nielsen. cels-
brated their silver wedding in Stockholm.
June 10. Both Of them are very popu-
lar and it is admitted by all parties that
Mr.. Blehr is putting forth honest efforts
to benefit his country and his people.
The railway department has ordered
materials for a new iron. bridge on the
Ofoten railway from a German factory.
n the Norwegian manufacturers are
paying their respects to the government
in vigorous language.
Verdens Gang appeals to the business
men Of Kristiania to leave no chance
unimproved in their efforts to make their
city the greatest commercial center OF
the Scandinavian peninsula. One Of the
first steps to be taken in the future. the
paper says, is the opening Of a new rail-
way line from the Hamar district to the
Dalarne railway system in Lundin. The
opposition of the Gothenburg papers to
such a line is mentioned as a good omen.