Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-08-09
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
J HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAND.
Principal Events Thai Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
Or SO Just Past.
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The Bergen Mechanical Works will
henceforth be able to turn out steamers
Of 5000 tons dead weight.
Hans Andersen. Of Skien. a noted advo-
cate of temperance and International
peace. is dead. He represented Skien in
the storthing from 1893 to 1897. He was u
years old at the time of his death.
The Norwegian Acetylene Gas Company
has failed.
A temperance rally at Gjeithus was at
tended by 5000 people,. Many prominent
men addressed the audience.
~Norgenbladet claims that the inebriates
of Kristiania alone spend 81. 100000 a year
for liquor, and that they constitute 16 per
cent Of all males above the age Of Is
years.
During the fiscal year ending March 81,
1901. the state railways of Norway gave
a surplus of $5SS, $40. which was about
$780, 900 above the estimated surplus.
The Bjellard Canning Company. Of
Stavanger. has decided not to sell its
plant to the syndicate. ard for that rea-
son the plans Of the syndicate may not
be carried through.
The king arrived In Kristiania July IL
and was received In the customary man
ner at the depot. From the depot he
drove directly to the royal mansion.
where the cabinet held an executive ses-
sion. AT the close of the session he pro-
ceeded to Villa Victoria, on the island Of
Bygdo. The queen had left the special
train at Kongsuinger to go to her sum-
mer residence at Skinnarbol. =
The temperature dropped from 9lk de-
grees to BIZ degrees in a few minutes
while a violent hail storm was passing
over Lilleelvedalen.
Prospectors have struck gold in prom
Using quantities at ~Stargljok. Finmarken.
The expenses of the prospectors are paid
by parties in Kristiania.
Orebladet mentions as a novelty and a
great curiosity that a man was seen
walking in his shirt-sleeves down Karl
Johan street the other day. The paper.
however, takes him to be a pioneer. and
adds: why cannot this be done in Kris
tiania as we'll as in New York? We
should say that we have enough heat. at
any rate. Nowadays we are the hottest
city in Europe. And we are told that it
is going to be still worse. the hot wave
from America being headed for our coun-
try. Give us. first and last. shirt-sleeves
as MONDAY clothing. eve on the street.
But clean shirt-sleeves. If you please
A kerosene tank exploded in the en-
CINE room Of the steamer Frigga in Kris
iania harbor. and the second engineer
was killed and the fireman injured.
Sven Aarrestad was reelected president
Of the Norwegian Total Abstinence Asso-
citation.
The government has ordered two loco
motive engines at Thune's Iron Works.
Kristiania. at a cost OF sl3. 500 a piece.
While Simon Busjord. OF Dovre, was
walking across the mountains to a noun
tain pasture. carrying an AK on his shoul-
der. he was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed.
The skeleton of a man was found tam
Eled up in a hshnet at Sandebugt, near
fDrammen.
Rich veins of iron ore ave been found
In Vesteraalen. They are said to con-
tain sixty per cent of iron. Rich beds OF
graphite have been found in Vesteraaleu
and Semen.
The total real estate business Of Kristi.
mia for the first half Of the current yea
amounted to only s6O7. 500. The CORE
spending amount for the first half of the
year 1898 was SIS. 100. 900. This affords a
striking illustration of the difference be-
tween a boom and hard times.
A committee appointed two years age
to proposed plans for timber culture OF q
large scale has reported hat the value Of
the forests of Norway is steadily de-
creasing from year to year. In very man,
instances the timber line is creeping slow
ly down the mountain sides.
Kaiser Wilhelm took a long walk IL
Hardanger. This is the place which Hen.
rik Wergeland called the most idyllic spo1
on EARTH.
The annual meeting Of the Norwegian
Total Abstinence Association was held a
Tromso. According to the annual report
there were 1,OO9 societies having a mem
bership of lis. 1896. This is a loss of $50
members in one year. The latter mum
Der represents those who have Joined 9th
er temperance organizations.
A social purity conference which wa
held at Hamar appealed to the grea
dailies to combat the sin OF impurity
and recommended that the friends of so
cial purity establish a ~ewspape fer thu
advancement of their cause.
Thirty-two passenger trains leave KRIS
tiania every day during the tourist sea
son. and many Of them are packed.
Halvors Olsen. OF Loitsn. Hedsmarken
Is dead. He was q conductor On the old
est railway In Norway.
SWEDEN.
Part Of the horse for the equestrian
statue Of MaEnss stenbock has been cas-
in bronze ut O. Meyers art foundry
Malmo. The piece weighs three tons. an
art critics speak very highly OF It.
The attempts which are being made (
acclimatize the musk-ox In Sweden SO IA
seem to be successful. Nathort's an
Kolthon's expeditions brought severs
animals from Greenland. Two OF thes
are kept at Boden and thres IN Jemtlant
All Of them are doing well. and the hea
does not seem to Affect them unfavor
ably. A musk-ox yields AZ much wool q
10 or Is sheep.
The Indian corn planted on the sorgen
fri experimental farm near Malmo look
fine, and it is hoped that the grain wi
rpen before the frost sets in.
Two fine. double-edged stone axes hav
been found in a peat bog in Skurup. On
was carefully ground on both sides. tn
other was roughly hewn.
Miss Anne Tracy Morgan. the onl
daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan. ie NAL
-. IF the Scondina Wan countries