Warren sheaf., 1901-09-05
SCANDINAVIAN. NEWS
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which resigned few days ago. "did
just one sensible thing during Its life,
namely. it died. ~. ...... "..
Foreign tourists are more numerous in
Copenhagen this summer than ever be-
FORE the Americans and English being
particularly conspicuous sszz-- szs--
| The Danish Health Culture Society held
Its annual meeting at Aarhus. The re-
ceipts for the past year were a little over
$4,000 and the expenditures about sS4,-
| 600. HS% # 'ss% g
/ The Good Templars of iceland demand
that the Importation of Intoxicating
| drinks. including beer, be completely pro-
hibited 3 E s
| Herman Bang has written two books.
| this summer and has laid plans for a
| third one.
| The seaport town of Marstal has added
$4,000 worth of vessels to it's merchant
marine in the course of two years. Very
| little outside capital has been employed,
the people Of the town believing in the
principle "Marstal for Marstallians."
t SIX sea captains have been discharged
on account of defective sight by the Unit
| ed steamship Company. Some of them
!; mad served the company as captains for
| twenty-five years or more and had given
general satisfaction. They are all al
lowed to draw their salaries until the end
| of the year. . IL
| NORWAY.
I DR.. Armauer Hansen, Of Bergen. cele-
brated his sixtieth birthday anniversary
| Auguth tenth, on which, occasion a bust
representing him, was unveiled. DR..
| Hansen was the discoverer of the leprosy
| bacillus. % -
/ A monument has been erected on the
| grave Of Rev. Heyerdahl, member of
the constitutional convention of Eids-
| void. His grave is located at Gran ceme-
| terry.
| The national convention of the Nor
Wegian socialists yielded somewhat ON
| the question Of taxa ton. Their old plat
form demanded the Establishment of all
| indirect taxes,'' while the new paragraph
on the same subject says: I'VE demand
/ the greatest possible reduction of indi-
rect taxation" Their demand for high
er taxes on untitled, tillable land and
| on vacant city lots, proves that the work
| of Henry George on single tax has not
been wasted on the Norwegian socialists.
| The whole number Of persons who emf
grated from Norway in 1900, was 1881,
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each Of the few past years. There were
6,S7S males and 4,O5s females, and 1880
of them came from the country, and 3,O41
| from the cities and towns.
I Hamar has 1.709 voters.
| Kragero has no saloons (samlag). But
| Stathelle has one The keeper of the
| latter sold liquors in Kragero nearly
|. every day. The local court fined him
| $50 on the assumption, that he sold his
goods in Kragero, where no liquors
should be retailed. But the supreme
court reversed the decision on the ground
that the goods were sold at Stathelle to
parties residing in Kragero.
Norway exported 467OO tons of ice in
July.
Some money was raised a number Of
years ago for the erection of a monu-
ment in honor of Peter Dass, the poet
of Nordland. Aug 26, 1907, will be the
20Odth anniversary of his death. Alsta-
hong parsonage is mentioned as the most
suitable location for the monument.
| Jacob B. Bull has issued an appeal
to the Norwegian people to collect his
| torical data from their neighborhoods as
a means of preserving what would other
wise be forgotten and lost in the busy
hum of modern life. in Kristiania.
I Norway exported 20 tons of canned
goods in 1881, and the export for 1900
was 1900 tons. gStavanger has always
been the great center of this industry
/ Adolf Oien, of zTrondhjem, commemor-
ated the twenty-ffth anniversary of the
ltopening of his business as an independent
merchant by donating s2,7O0 to the aid
fund of the merchants of his city.
L A girl who was moving hay at Gjards-
vixen, Sondmore. struck humble bee
nest and in attempting to defend herself
against the insects ran the point Of her
Iascythe into her chest so that she bled to
death in a few seconds.
l. SWEDEN.
| A boy at Orebro enjoyed bathing so