Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-05-17
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean. /
IN THE fAIHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
OF So Just asst.
SWEDEN.

or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.
Swedish beer is becoming popular In
England since arsenic was found in large
quantities of the English product. Par
ties in. London AVE ordered st. Bricks
Pilsener beer from Stockholm. this par
ticular brand having been introduced in
London during King Oscars stay there
last summer. ;
The Swedish Hunters Association held
Its annual meeting in Stockholm, former
minister of foreign affair, Coun Douglas,
occupying the chair. On motion by the
crown prince. a resolution was passed
10 the effect that a circular be addressed
to every club in the country, requesting
them to answer yes or no to the question
OF establishing a common und for all the
CLUBS. A special committee shall be APP
pointed to consider Count O.. Lewen-
naupt's proposition to open up a hunt
ers school. A pamphlet on the protec-
ton OF game, which was written by a
special committee. hall be printed in
lO,OW copies and sent to the different
clubs. The railway department was re-
quested by the association to reduce the
rate on dogs for long distances. The
gold medal of the association was award
ed to Mr.. H. Trolle.
The territory which was rendered USE
less by the historic landslide in verdalen
eight years ago IN which has been con-
trolled by the state since that time, will
soon be parcelled out among the original
owners, only two Of whom will nave to
agree to certain conditions before the
transfer is made The land around the
ravine' resulting from the landslide will
be kept by the government for the cul-
ture of timber.
Captain Mabnus Andersen and two
others have organized themselves into a
publishing company, n the result will
be the publication Of a new trades jour
nal called Gysten-the Coast. A Sunday
supplement will be devoted to stories and
other entertaining reading matter.
Twenty-Five employees in Boras nave is
sued a printed circular to their employees.
warning them not to join any social
democratic labor union. It is finally de-
clared that those twenty-five employers
will by no means keep social democrats
in their factories.
Count Arvid Posse died April "a. The
deceased was prominent in the politics of
his country for a long series of years and
served as premier from 1880 to 1889.
Without a dissenting vote, the consti-
tutional committee has agreed on a bill
Of censure against Dyrssen, the head of
the Swedish navy. because he inflicted a
too severe punishment on Admiral Hagg,
whose miSdemeanor seems to have been
far from grave.
The tariff on Indian corn is so high that
a number of prominent butchers in South
ern Sweden have rented a packing estab-
lishment at Nillerod, Denmark. which
they propose to operate on a large scale.
The strength of Count Arvid Posse is
slowly ebbing away.
The city council of Hernosand has voted
$50, 1000 for the erection of a new building
for the school of technology of that city.
The landtmanna party in the riksdag is
in favor of raising the salaries of a GER
tain class of public functionaries ten per
cent; but the aggregate amount favored
by this party is only about half as large
as that proposed by the government.
The spring work was fairly started
about April 20 in Southern Sweden. The
rye and clover fields look very promising.
The Samson & Wallin Publishing Com
pany of Stockholm has made an assign
ment. One of the member of the firm
lost heavily in speculation in other bust
ness branches. and this led to the down.
fall of the f1ourishing book business. The
liabilities may run up to one hundred
thousand dollars.
Stockholm Inhalatorium is a new Stock
holm hospital where lung diseases are
treated by means of inhalations. 1t is a
copy of similar institutions in Germany.
A new verb. Business failures have
been so frequent in Lulea that the people
of northern Sweden use the expression
"att lula" (o "lula') to indicate that a
person has been driven to the wall fnan-
cially.
j. Perache, a French journalist, has a
theory of his own in regard to the fate of
Andree's North Pole expedition. His the
DRY does not exactly tally with certain
laws of nature; but, as it touches upon a
problem which is interesting to every
Swede, it is briefly summed up below:
Mr.. Perache holds that Andree and his
companions persisted close to the North
Pole. The cir at the North Pole, he says,
is practically undisturbed by currents.
Besides. the air is raritied 60 at the poles.
When the balloon entered this region it
was not only kept there by a continual
calm, but the density of the atmosphere
was not sufficient to keep it suspended.
The balloon. therefore. was kept there for
a short time and was forced to the
ground very close to the place of its
destination. The cold being intense in
that region, the death of the explorers
was not long delayed.
Gellivare, the famous mining town in
Norrland. will have a saloon. the vote on
the question being 1.42O to 27,412. These
numbers do not imply so many voters.
but they are based on the property owned
by the voters.
NORWAY.
The ecclesiastical department is in IA
vor of accepting the offer Of the city
council of Kristiania to transfer the Mu-
scum of Sculpture to the state.
Bjornson and wife arrived at Copenha-
gen from Berlin, April %.