Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-05-03
IN THE FAIHERLAKD.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within 4 Week
or So Just Past.
NORWAY.

them a cur When one set Of cups has
been used a clean set is placed on the
tray and h minister proceeds until all
the communicates are served. DR.. Selmer
can see no objection to glasses instead Of
metal cups, but he thinks the chaltce
form ought to be retained on account Of
its beauty.
Bjornson will be unable to make a
speech at the unwilling OF the Torden-
skiold monument on the seventeenth Of
May.
The Kristiania Retail Liquor Company
(samlag) cleared s1s5, $50 on the sale Of
distilled liquors in 1900. Fifty-fve per
cent of this amount goes to the state, Is
per cent to the city, $1,000 as interest to
the stockholders and the balance as gifts
to about one hundred organizations Of
various kinds.
In the Gravehalsen tunnel, on the Kris
tiania g. Bergen Railway, a layer Of
copper ore has been struck. The place
is in the middle of the mountain through
which the tunnel passes.
The stockholders Of neutrality-suspicious.
iske Verksted will receive no dividends
for the past year.. The manager pro-
poses that the capital stock be raised
from $40, 900 to $4,000
Mr.. Hougen has retired from public
life after having served as principal of
the Kragelu public school over fifty
years.
The Randsfjord pulp n paper manu-
featuring company has declared a divi-
dend of u per cent for the year 1900.
Eighteen Norwegians were decorated
with French orders on account Of their
connection with the Paris worlds fair.
DENMARK.
At the local elections in Copenhagen
the radical social democratic ticket made
a clean sweep, three Leftists and three
social democrats being elected aldermen
by a vote Of 1900. The average vote
polled by the conservative candidates was
1O,4OO, making the average majority Of
the victors about $500 votes. Last year
the same party had a majority of $500.
p. Olden, a young dairyman, about q
year g claimed that he had invented a
new and reliable method of preserving
butter. Time alone could tell whether he
was right or not. Accordingly, a box of
fresh butter treated by him was closed
up, sealed by a notary public and placed
in the vault of the Copenhagen Pivat
Bank. TIL sample has just been tested
and is officially declared to be zine, first
class butter" and some oleomargarine
kept by the side of it was equally well
preserved. The quality of the goods was
absolutely unchanged. and chemical tests
failed to locate any foreign substance in
the butter. 1t is supposed that other
eatables may be preserved in the same
manner. A company has been organized
to exploit the invention.
DR.. Deichmann, who has participated
In two expeditions to Greenland, has
again left for that inhospitable country.
This time he proposes to start a bac-
THEOLOGICAL laboratory at Holsteinsborg,
West Greenland. He is accompanied by
his wife, who is a painter.
Some p%othouse politician has proposed
that Denmark make a bargain with
Germany by trading away her Danish
West Indies for a strip of South Jutland.
The famous butter preserver. The
statement made a short time ago to the
effect that one Christensen Olden had
Kept a tub of butter perfectly fresh for
over a year. But there is an ugly. kink
in the story. The alleged inventor Of the
new method, Christensen Olden, had
committed forgery. changing the date Of
the certificate of the notary public from
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it appear hat the tub of butter in ques-
ton had been kept over one year, while,
as a matter Of fact, 1t had been kept only
a few days. The company organized for
the purpose of exploiting the alleged in
vention has dropped the matter, but the
police authorities are upon the heels of
the man who is responsible for the whole
yarn.
The exports of Denmark for the year
1900 were s101, $50, 900, and the imports s75,-
100000, the exports exceeding he Imports
by almost SIG, 900, 900.
Weak-that is the right word to ex-
press the character of the Danish cab
met after election. The falkething is
composed of liz, members, and only 5 Of
these now belong to the government par
ty! Well might the Danish people expect
the Sehested ministry to resign. A daily
of April Z states that the resignation was
expected to be handed to the king April 8.
Cerebro-sptnal meningitis is spreading
In north Upland, four cases having been
reported within a short time.
The Danish Total Abstinence Associa-
ton, at a convention in Frederick, made
the following appeal to the voters just
before election: 'Electors! Be sober on
the day of election! This is of great inn
portance to the s%oundness Of our po-
litical life and the morals. of our public
life"
SWEDEN.
The present status Of the liquor traffic
in Landskrona is far from satisfactory.
and the Gothenberg system will be in
troduced at an early date.
The city of Helsingborg is about to
float bonds to the amount Of at least
$500
The manufacturers of Skane have
donated $1,000 to the Fridhem agricul-
tural college.
The chief Of the general staff is in favor
Of making it the duty of the sheriffs Of
Linden to send a complete report every
fifth year to the wal department on the
condition of the roads, bridges. ferries
and fords in their districts. To collect
this information by means Of special
functionaries, would cost an enormous
amount of money.
The Thule Life Insurance Association
has sold a parcel Of land at s~trandvagen,
Stockholm, for about $3.50, 000.