Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-12-20
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS)
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN The FAIHERLAyD.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea within Week
or So just Past.

In the Old Countries About the Y
North Sea within a Week
or So just Past.
DENMARK.
One Of the most important reforms
the new cabinet is bound to intro
duce will be a complete reorganization OF
the system of legal procedure. This
change will entail an increase Of $5O0,00
in the expenditures Of the judiciary de-
partment.
]. c.. Christensen, the minister Of the
cult, intends to ask the rigsdag to vote
q salary of 81, 800 a year to Georg Brandes,
the author, without requiring any par
ticular work from the beneficiary,
A resident Of veile, named Hansted, has
made an invention in the art Of shoemak-
ing. He calls his invention the natural
last" Our shoes are mad on lasts
roughly resembling the human foot. The
new method consists in making q mold OF
the foot of the customer out Of a plastic
substance, the stocking being kept on
the foot, and in this mold the last Is cast
for the shoe.
Thu wheat crop was a failure in Den
mark last summer; the other crops gave
an average yield, and the hay crop was
abov the average throughout the coun-
try. Wheat was sown mainly in the is
Hands,. ,At ~.
The best coal field In the Farce Islands
is found at Kvalbo. where the inhabit-
ants from times immemorial have en-
joyed the right OF mining coal for their
own private use. The Kvalbo ford being
exposed to the sea and not very suitable
for a harbof, the coal Will (: loaded on
vessels for export at T~rangisvaag. Fire
proof clay is found in numerous places
in the Island of Sudero.
A fire at the East Side Gas Works in
Copenhagen destroyed property for al
most $4,000. The fire started in a pile OIL
coal containing about 10000 tons. It was
the "Siamese" that put out the fire. The
'tSiamese" is a steel horse fed by three
fire engines. It takes at least twelve men
to handle It. The force Of the jet OIL
water thrown by it Is so great that 1t
plowed up the coal piles as though they
had been heaps Of loose ashes, and II a
man should happen to come in It's way
The would be instantly killed.
'City Offices will be the name Of a
new kind Of offices to be opened in At
torney Albeek's building in the central
part Of Copenhagen. Many business men
who live in the outskirts of the city can
mot afford to rent offices in the business
center of the city. In the ''city Offices
such parties may rent only a desk and
age charge Of seven dollars a month.
Many such desks will be placed In each
room Of the building.
SWEDEN.
Tt Is proposed to erect a statue Of Eli
'Gustaf Vasa at the historic spot in Mora
where he spoke to the Dalarne yeomanry.
King Oscar has promised to be the patron
of the movement. It Is already settled
that the will be executed by
Anders Zorn.
Public-spirited citizens Of Vexio have re-
solved to spend $4,000 for the restoration
of the ruins of Kronoberg citadel;
In the children's well" at Odetofta, al
most 5000 copper and silver coins from
the seventeenth century have been re-
covered.
6 The Retail Liquor Company of Malmo ia
bent on reforming itself. In Malmo, as
well as elsewhere in Europe, strong
drinks are served by men and women
indiscriminately. The managers Of the
-Malmo company have resolved to employ
mo women as bartenders after the expira.
AtlO III Lie I0IAl1Sf VI lAS WOL101 SSIVlll8
in that capacity. The rule shall apply not
only to regular saloons but also to restau-
rants serving liquors.
One thousand young pickerel have been
planted In the o around the Lands
krona castle. fSi. ~
Emil Soldering, the German translator
of Strindberg's works, claims that Strind-
berg had been influenced by Schiller.
Th6 nyEo oH.Cojono1lo uhoso u,fFo - =
Swedish lady, has been elected mayor Of
Naples. Italy. -.
The Swedish Academy Is said to have
awarded thees ent4ree Nobel prize for, tht
best literary production to one man. bu'
the name Of that fortunate fellow will
mot sbesmade.ptbNc Until Dec. TO-
The depot agents at some of the sta,
tions along the K~ristianstad & Glimakr.
Railway are women.
Damp snow loaded down the hands o.
h public time-piece of Stockholm to sucl
an extent a few evenings, ago that at {
certain moment four Of them pointed t.
1880, ll:l5, S:25 and HAS, while the righ'
time was S:55.
Landskrona will soon have a new $50, oo
public school house.
The king has decided to set aside $4,00t
For the support Of Swedish clergymer
stationed at the foreign seaport cities O.
Copenhagen. Kiel. West Hartlepool ane
Dunkirk.
The city government Of Stockholm 1
expected to appropriate a snug sum o
money for entertaining the Good TEN
plars at their international convention
which will be held in Stockholm in tn
first part of July, 1902.
The members of the Swedish army an
navy keep over $1,00O.O0O in savings bank.
In a saloon tussle at Tomelilla tn
ants were victorious to the extent q
prohibiting the sale Of liquor from p. m
Saturday, to 8 a. M, Monday.
In the parish of Gryt there is only on
man who owns the ground on which h
Hives. Most of the inhabitants rent Ian
from the managers Of the wanas estat
The Stockholm rat war has resulted l
h death of 1851 900 rats. AS in Soul
Africa, the end Of the wal is not in sigh
Two girls of the ages Of eight ar
eleven years lost their way in a forest
Askhult. svinhult parish. and the fallir
snow not only covered up their tracks b,
presumably their :~lifeless, bodies so tn,
the cannot be found until the snow