Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-03-27
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
An international fisheries committee
will hold an executive meeting in
kristiania some time IN May.
The import of live fish from Den
mark is steadily decreasing, the Nor
wcgians having realized that there is
more than plenty of fish along the
coast OF Norway and that little more
push and skill in catching and market
ing the goods will enable them to sup
ply their own market.
A Norwegian-Mexican trading COM
pany has been organized in Kristiania,
with a capital of SIS, 900. The concern
proposes to trade in goods carried
either way between Norway and
Mexico.
The electric plant which was built
at Rombaksbotten for the production
OF motive power for boring tunnel
on the Ofoten railway has just been
completed, at cost of $4,000.
The estimated wealth of the CITY of
TroEdhjem is $ll ZOO, 600, and the csti-
mated income for the present year is
S., 800, 900.
The Smaalene canal is owned partly
by the state and partly by private per-
sons This joint ownership is caus-
ing constant friction, and it is pro-
posed to have the state buy the inter-
ests Of the private owners. The canal
in the vicinity of Skien is owned and
controlled exclusively by the state.
and this arrangement is giving gen.
erai satisfaction.
Mr.. Aa,not of Skien has signed a
contract to furnish 10, 900 young trees
year to the local forestry association.
Awoman found a pocketbook con-
tanning $50 on the street in kristiania.
She returned it to its owner, who gave
her $50 per cent-and hired her to
work in his Office.
Mr.. Marble. a Kristiania business
man, who died short while ago, do
mated $50. Ooo to charitable institutions.
Bjornson is planning a new drama.
The electric railways of Kristiania
conveyed 5000 passengers less in Feb
ruary this year than last
Bjornson and wife will soon leave
Paris for Stuttgart, and after short
stay there they will proceed to Italy.
The stockholders of the Kristiania
electric street car company have pock
eted dividend of 7 per cent for 1900
The discussion of the hygienic as
poets of the habit of passing the COM
munion cup from mouth to mouth is
still kept up. Some things said ON
this subject imply neither to the loft-
est wisdom nor the profoundest piety.
DR.. Graarud, member of the stor-
thing, for instance, proposes that the
communicate put both lips, that is to
say, the whole snout, into the cup.
while Eerdens Gang closes an editorial
thus: ITO compel people in our day to
drink from the same vessel and of the
same fluid ut the same time as numer-
Gus strangers, cannot be characterized
as anything short of swinishness-"
Bjornson says he admires the French,
their country and their institutions.
But they stand alone in the world in
many respects. they can neither under
stand nor be thoroughly understood
by others. Just now they are heaping
honors upon Bjornson as best they
can, and an author has even written a
f1owery, high-sounding poem about
him. But still he said to an inter
viewer: 1T is very beautiful and flow
cry. and fattering in every respect,
but the author does not understand
the least bit of me-" Feeling like a
stranger among strangers, he does not
care to stay in the French capital any
longer, but intends to go to Germany.
where some of his dramas have scored
a remarkable success during the past
few weeks
Henrik Ibsen has been troubled with
the grip for some time. but he is re-
covering and spends part of each day
in his study.
A boat from Bremnes capsized in a
storm off Skudesnes. OF the nine men
in the boat five were rescued, but one
of them died without regaining con-
seriousness.
The disasters caused by storms along
the west coast of Norway in the course
of the past two years have aroused the
government to the realization of the
necessity of taking measures to pre-
vent similar disasters in the future,
and one of the results will doubtless
be the establishment of d central
weather station at Bergen.