Willmar tribune., 1901-10-09
NORWAY.

~ NORWAY.
Ine total deposits in the Norweeian
savings Bank Jan. l. 1901, were So, ,5so, 900,
"n1ch was an increase of almost S., 600 OCo
1or one year. The number of depositors
was 61,24, or 30 per cent of the popu-
iatton. The average for each depositor
was s12S, and If the deposits were dis
tr1outed equally, each man, woman and
child in the country would have s40 The
assets OF the savings banks themselves
were about $10,OO0Ooo
S1gurd 1bsen. Ph.D., has been instruct
ed by the Norwegian government to draw
up rules and regulations for the consular
service. Some time ago he published an
elaborate account Of the relation between
the consular and the diplomatic service.
Using this as basis. he is to frame
rules for the establishment of a separate.
distinct consular service for Norway, and
to make estimates for a budget Of ex-
penses for such a service. Dagbladet, the
acknowledged mouth piece of the Steen
cabinet. makes the following comment on
the move: I'VE believe that this news
will be received with satisfaction by the
Leftists almost as a unit, and perhaps
by others. 1t shows, as we always have
maintained as self-evident, that the gov
ernment intends to take hold of the con-
sular question during the term of the
present storthing.''
So many parents who were able to sup
port their children had their school chill
dren dined at public expense in the
schools Of kristiania last winter that
henceforth the parents will be subjected
to a careful examination before their chill
dren are admitted free of charge to the
public dinner for poor pupils.
The Students Union opened the season
with banquet, the menu of which con-
tained beer, whisky and punch. verdens
Gang, the most influential paper in Nor
way, fired one-column editorial at that
part of the program, the closing words
being, Down with beer, whisky and
punch at the chief festival of the stu
dents union!'' One article was written by
Georg Fasting.
The rock in the Grayehalsen railway
tunnel on the kristiania & Bergen Rail-
way, is softer in the center of the noun
tain. The west side tunnel is about 10, 600
and the east side one about 5000 feet long
The distance between the ends of the two
is over 5000 feet. and this great work will
be finished early next summer.
The fall maneuvres in the country
around Levanger were pronounced sue
cess. The two armies combined numbered
1890 men, and the crown prince was pres
ent but took no active part The weather
was cold and rainy. The men seemed to
stand the hardships better than the
horses. The people Of the surrounding
country were keenly interested in the
maneuvres of the troops.
A cablegram from London states that
on the day of the funeral of President
Mckinley the services at St. Edmund's
church, kristiania, were attended by the
officers and men Of the United States
training ship Buffalo, the cabinet minis
ters. consuls and others. A salute was
fired by the Buffalo and. forts.
Norway exported $4,000 tons Of Ice in
August.
The temperance people of Kristiania
have adopted a platform of their own, de-
manding, in brief, certain time for clos
ing all places where liquor is retailed,
samlag monopoly of the whisky trade, a
better regulation of the restaurants, the
building of workingmen's homes partly
at public expense. free stationery for the
school children, public aid for gifted chill
dren in order to give them an adequate
education, the opening of a number of
public baths, and a continuation of the
building of streets and roads in the out
skirts Of the city.
1t tickles the Norwegians, however, to
hear that once in a while foreigners place
Swedish cities in Norway, which goes to
show that the latter country is a little
better known abroad than formerly:
The berry crop of Finmarken is light
The Fevig Ship Building Company, of
Arendal, has received orders for two steel
freight steamers from Mobile, Alabama.
The cost Of the ships will be at least
$3.50, GOO.
The taxes are towering ever higher, and
thousands Of Norwegian taxpayers feel
as did man in Gudbrandsdalen who said
the other day: Il thought of starting a
new enterprise But I dare not The To-
cal taxes have reached Is per cent, and
there is no telling where the increasing IS
going to stop. I think we shall have to
go west, all of us?" BY the west he
meant America
National Pride.-A man who recently re-
ceived letter addressed to "Christiania,
Sweden" returned it, after writing on the
envelope: ITO be returned; Christiania in
Sweden not known"
The cabbage crop is a failure in the
country around Kristiania.
The number Of university students II 3ss