Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-11-28
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
DENMARK.

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! DENMARK.
4 The budget Of expenses Of the city Of
Copenhagen for the year 1902 exceeds four
million dollars, and is about $4,000 In ex-
cess OF the expenditures Of 1901.
i Rev T. L. sGrundtvig. who Is son Of
the great poet and has served Danish
churches In the United States. has been
granted permission to preach In the
churches Of Denmark and to, wear the
clerical vestments of the clergy Of the
state church. though he has not studied
at the University Of Copenhagen. But
no will not be permitted to administer the
sacramento in the state church.
Prof. Werner Dalerup Is engaged in col
iecting material for a complete diction-
airy of the Danish language 5.
Gustav Johannsen, the leading Dane in
South Upland during the past forty years,
Is dead. During the years 1881 1901, ex-
cepting 1SS4-18S6. he was member of the
German reichstag. The cause Of his
death was cancer In the liver. He stayed
In bed only one day before his death.
The Alexandra, Of the United Steam
ship Company, was delayed two days in
the middle Of the Atlantic ocean. The
h1ndmost pitman of the engine was brok-
en-, and 1t required forty-eight hours Of
continuous work to put In a new one. The
captain speaks Of the efforts Of the crew
IN the strongest terms OF praise. |'<l
A Copenhagen carpenter had been col
lect1ng bicycles on the sly since 1893. and
when he was caught he had over one
hundred wheels When his arrest was
made public those who had lost wheels
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| carpenter had succeeded in changing the
wheels so much that eighty Of them can
not be identified by their owners.
Holger Drachmann, who is to spend tho
| winter at Hamletsgaard, Marienlyst, has
almost recovered from his recent sick
ness, nervous prostration. He is putting
the finishing touches to new collection
of poems which will be published for the
Christmas trade.
Prof. F. G. Lund, the painter Of his
toric scenes, is dead, aged rs years. He
established his reputation as painter
almost fifty years ago. Technically his
paintings rank high, but his "colors were
somewhat dry, and there was little Of
emotional poetry in his productions"
! Mr.. Jensen, the Danish Santos Dumont,
has completed the framework Of his air.
ship. But as he is short of funds and
cannot complete his ship for less than
$1,000 his first flying trip is not quite in
sight yet.
NORWAY.
Henry Durant is still supposed to be
most likely to receive the Nobel prize,
which is to be awarded by authority Of
| the Norwegian storthing to the person
who leads the world in his endeavors in
favor of International peace and arbitra-
| ton.
Last winter there was stampede for
the poor school children's free lunch
counter, the number Of children taking
advantage of the chance being about TO-
600. The children of so many comforta-
bly, situated parents dined at public ex-
pense that they threatened to destroy the
free lunch counter. Something had to
be done to check the tide. This fall the
parents who wished to have their chill
dren dined at public expense had to ap-
pear in person before duly appointed pub
lie functionaries and report their incomes.
| The result was what the authorities ex-
pected Comparatively few applications
were made by persons who were not en-
titled to the children's free dinner, and
the total number of children to be dined
at public expense the coming winter will
hardly exceed 1000.
The freight rates are so low that MANY
| Norwegian vessels must be laid up part
Of the winter season.
Hans Kjar & Co., Of Drammen, have
ordered new steel steamer Of 1900 tons
for the East Asian trade.
Captain Otto Sverdrup who is supposed
to be prowling around the North Pole,
was IS years old Oct. 81. <
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Identical with that found in Iceland, and
the coal bed is supposed to extend under
the sea between the two places. The
value Of the coal that may be mined in
Sudero (Faro Islands) is put at 500, 900, 0O0
The copper. iron ore and fire-clay de-
posts in Sudero is supposed to be worth
still more.
French fishermen who are operating
around Iceland and New Foundland are
competing with the Norwegians on the
markets of Italy and southern Spain, but
in northern Spain the Norwegian fish
J. products enjoy something akin to a mo-
nopoly. -. 49,
SWEDEN.
st. Petri church was opened to the tenn
perance people of Malmo for the cele-
bration of the Good Templars' semi-cen-
Cennlal JuDllee.
A crop of Indian corn became ripe last
. summer on about an acre of ground al
Simrishamn.
The congregation of the city of Hell.
singborg has been in the habit of letting
out incorrigible children to poor farm.
ers residing in the surrounding country
But such children have caused so much
trouble that the experiment must be re-
garded as a failure, and outside newspa
pers are warning the farmers against thu
inducements offered for keeping city
children. -..t .-...r. ..@.,
Experiments made at the Marina prov
: ing grounds demonstrated that Major
, fingers flying torpedoes can be thrown
!. with accuracy about one English mile.
The northernmost telephone line il
Sweden, that between Haparanda and Pa
. jala, has just been completed. .
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