Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-05-31
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN The FAIHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.

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nicipality OF Bergen is remembered Ii
b. the largest gift ever made by a Nor.
wegian to a single concern.
American and English capitalists arr
spending considerable amounts Of money
In examining and mining metallic ores
marble and granite in the western par,
OF Norway. In fact. the movement looks
like a mild craze.
y The city Of Drammen still has certain
market days. but public sentiment is in
favor Of abolishing this ancient institu.
ton. .
Laboremus. Bjornson's latest drama, is
published in full as a supplement to the
Fortnightly Review.
Two non-commissioned officers from
the corps of engineers have disappeared
and they are supposed to have gone to
South Africa to tight on the side of the
Beers.
There will be planted AGO. 900 young trees
in Romsdalamt this spring.
The Borgestadholm saw and planning
mill. at skien. was totally destroyed by
fire two weeks ago. The lumber yard
was also swept by the flames, and the
total loss is about $4,000. 1t is supposed
$AAS SAS = q leu Wy IAoAApo viz
had slept in the buildings. Seventy men
be rebuilt at an early date, as the loss
was covered by insurance.
The Swedish riksdag has voted 81, 200 as
indemnity for damage lone in Norway
by Swedish Lapps from Enonteki.
The city of T%rendhjem is going to uti-
lie the immense water power at Lerfos
for r1lnn{no no rS linh%Srr ~ - -
other purposes. The ground over which
the wires are to be strung from the falls
down to the city had to be procured by
means of appropriation proceedings.
The city council Of Kristiania contrib
uted se75 to the Seventeenth of May fund.
Spring work was begun about the first
of May around Kristiania.
S%pellaget is the nam of a new dramat-
ical society in Kristiania which presents
plays in the Norwegian districts. 1t may
possibly establish a Norwegian-Norwe-
gian theater in the capital. Mrs. Arne
Gorborg is at the head of the society.
Thousands of w~orkingmen paraded the
streets of Kristiania on labor day, and
the fifty flags and banners waving over
the crowds presented a beautiful and ami
mated sight. Resolutions were passed in
AoSO1 VI introducing an olSnI-QOurQ dY Oy
means of legislation.
sIhe legislative assembly of Buskerud,
by a vote of II to 5, has opposed the in
PRODUCTION of Norwegian dialects as a
compulsory study in the normal and pub
lie schools.
Peat was tried instead of coal at the
Kristiania electric power station last
winter, and the result was encouraging.
A great singing festival will take place
at Sarpsborg June 2, and II choirs have
announced their attendance.
The cash balance of the Nansen fund
now amounts to $22S, 0o0, of which $40, 600
was added during the past year.
The second International Hydrograph-
ical and Biological Congress commenced
at the University of Norway, May 9th.
1t was called to order by Premier Steen.
who made an address of welcome in
German, and responses were made in
German by DR.. Herwig, in Russian by
~Knipowitsch, and in English by Prof.
darcy Thompson. Prof. Fridtjof Nam
sen was elected president, and as vice.
presidents were elected Prof. F. o. Pet
tersson, Of Sweden; Captain Deichsel. of
Denmark; DR.. Herwig, of Germany: Mr..
knipowitsch. of Russia: and DR.. Hoeck,
of Holland.
SWEDEN.
Warm sunshine, succeeded by cold
winds. caused havoc among the bees in
northern Skane. They were tempted to
leave their hives but were overtaken and
destroyed by the wind.
A Stockholm coal importer went to
London Immediately after the passage of
the law which puts an export duty of
almost % cents a ton on coal ITO saw
that the man was angry, is to put it
mildly says the Daily News. you get
plt-props, lumber. wood pulp and iron
from US in considerable quantities." he
said to the English business men. .If
you endeavor to tax us on account of
your war. why should we spare YOUR feel
lngs? Besides, we do not know whether
twenty-five cents a ton is the limit. Next
time, maybe, you will be fighting Russia
and will ask us, to help you pay v7ur
bills in the same way. You have gotten
up this war; why don't you pay for it
too?"
The railway department has proposed
a reduction of twenty per cent of the
1relsht rates on peat, and the PROPOSE
ton has been communicated to the ex-
ecutlVe committees of the different pri-
Vate railway companies. y
according to a royal ordinance. articles
made partly or wholly of base metals
shall not be stamped in the same manner
as are gold and silver ware. Foreign
goods that conflict with this ordinance
snail not be imported. Tn. fines for vio-
lating the ordinance range from s1.35 to
$40.
About one thousand little pigs were sold
at Norby on the great market day
Ihe price paid for a one-month-old pig
was over $500. and ~two-months-old ones
fetched from $500 to S5.75 apiece.
Jonas WaSlund, of Upsala, is dead. For
more than fifty years he was connected
with the university. and reached the adj
Vanced age OF 81 years. He received ST.
yer and gold medals when he had served
rs and so years. respectively.
A nine-year-old son OF j. A. Cttoson. of +,
Ljusdal. broke one of the bones of his
lower arm while at play. He did not tell
his parents about it, but a few days later
they accidentally noticed tina. something
was wrong. The ends of the bones had
slipped past each other and the fracture
was partly healed. In order to put the |
limb in proper shape, the bone had to be |
broken and reset.
Robert Dickson, of Gothenborg, has do
mated $3.50 to the Swedish Society for the