Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-06-12
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across the
r. Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAlHERLAND.
principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The estimated receipts Of the municipal
street railways of Kristiana for 1900 were
$4,000 and the estimated surplus $4,000.
But the actual receipts prove to be less
than $4,000. and there is deficit of
$4,000. Many women wrote poems to ex-
press their JOY when the storthing
granted 100000 of them the right to vote
at local elections
The Librism farmers are already COM
pet1ng with the Norwegians on the butt
ter market in England.
The late DR.. A. Willie, of Kristiania,
"liled his whole fortune, or SAC, 900, to the
KING jubilee fund, which is to be de-
voted to a hospital for detectives.
karstad-Tidningen, Swedish paper,
contained the following: What fearless
people those Norwegians are anyway!
What a youthful daring inspires them!
what courage. what self-confidence,
what faith in life and its possibilities
must grow up in a people that dares to
take one step after another toward the
great goal of human equality without
seeing hundreds of fell spooks lowering
in the future! The atmosphere of Nor
way seems to be full of joy said
famous Swedish author who had lived in
Norway for long time. That expression
Is striking. The individual in that coun-
try feels as though he were carried aloft
by the knowledge that he belongs to
progressive people. a people that aspire
to leadership among the nations, a people
that dares to move ahead without seeing
the road tramped hard by the countless
nOStS that have hofo T,,o<
think of the latest reform in Norway!
In the first place all men are permitted
to vote at local elections. The very idea
almost makes a Swede dizzy There it
would be looked upon as a return to
chaos. But this is not enough. Even
the women have been granted the right
to vote In Norway. BY this reform Nor
way has carried into Europe one of the
ttoplos OF the great country of the set
ting sun. Now we can see how they
thrive In Scandinavian soil. Those ex-
periments in Norway ought to afford us
a good lesson in the future"
Storks have appeared in large numbers
IN southeastern Norway this season. As
they are not in the habit of coming so
Tar north there is no law against killing
them in Norway.
The new statue of Ole Bull in Bergen
does not look exactly like Ole Bull, but
we are told that the soul of the great
artist is in it," and it is charming piece
of work withal.
Amund B. Larsen. instructor at the
Arendal high school, has been appointed
TO spend one year in studying Norwegian
dialects. He is to receive $500 from the
national treasury and $500 from the Nam
sen fund as salary.
The health commissioner holds that
from sanitary considerations there should
be a glass for each Individual at the COM
munion> table.
The city of Stavanger has a loan of
s4oo. 900.
About 12,400 men, distributed among
$3.50 boats. are engaged in cod fishing
in Finmarken. The spring catch is H.
100000 fish, one-half the average for
the past five years. One-half of the
spring season still remains
Bjornson has made the French angry
by stating in a French paper that they
are the most exclusive and conservative
people in Europe.
The critics cannot agree about the
merits of Bjornson's latest work The
followers of Brandes find too much
morality in it: they make it a sort of
sermon. There are others, however, who
maintain that every great drama is
wrought on strong moral undercurrent
Bjornson said, in public address the
other evening: Norway was never
looked upon so favorably abroad as at
this very moment-never. as long as she
existed 1t is not so very long since
there was no Norway in the eyes of
foreigners-only Sweden or Scandinavia.
No Norway. And now? I do not claim
too much when I say: of the Scandi-
navian countries, Norway is most fire.
quently mentioned. Our poetry, our
music, the Nansen expedition, the grant
ing of suffrage to women by the
storthing-such things give us rank
among the nations
VIM. Vernon, an Englishman, visited
Holme parsonage, Mandal, a few years
ago. and pitched his tent on wretched
tenant farm connected with the par
sonage. He was very fond of the place
and spent $1,000 for new buildings. BY
this time the pastors residence on the
parsonage Is in a miserable condition,
and something had to be done. In the
nick Of time Mr.. Vernon told the pastor
to move into the $1,000 buildings, which
will be Internationally donated to the
community by the generous Englishman
War Saether has written the first
seventeenth of May poem Of the year
1901.
Edmund Gosse, young English author
who has written much for his country
men about Norwegian literature has
been decorated with the order of St. Olaf
Peat has been used instead of coal at
the Tingvold wooden mills. NOrdmore,
for some time past. The proprietors have
saved money by the change.
SWEDEN.