Willmar tribune., 1901-12-25
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.
DENMARK.

DENMARK.
One OF the most important reforms
which the new cabinet is bound to intro
duce will be complete reorganization Of
the system of legal procedure. This
change will entail an increase of $500 900
in the expenditures Of the judiciary de-
partment
J. c. Christensen, the minister of the
cult. intends to ask the rigsdag to vote
a salary of 1900 a year to Georg Brandes,
the author, without requiring any par
ticular work from the beneficiary.
resident Of Veile. named Hansted. has
made an invention in the art Of shoemak-
ing. He calls his invention the natural
last Our shoes are made on lasts
roughly resembling the human foot. The
new method consists in making Il mold of
the foot of the customer out Of plastic
substance. the stocking being kept on
the foot. and in this mold the last is cast
for the shoe.
The wheat crop was failure in Den
mark last summer; the other crops gave
an average yield, and the hay crop was
above the average throughout the coun-
try. Wheat was sown mainly in the is
lands.
AAAS O0SN wal AAClO III lIAC S1AOC 4oAdIuo
Is found at Kvalbo where the inhabit-
ants from times immemorial have en-
joyed the right of mining coal for their
own private use. The Kvalbo ford being
exposed to the sea and not very suitable
for harbor, the coal will be loaded on
vessels for export at Trangisvaag. Fire
proof clay is found In numerous places
in the Island of Sudero.
fire at Side in
Copenhagen destroyed property for al
most $4,000. The fire started in pile of
coal containing about 10000 tons. 1t was
the "Siamese" that put out the fire. The
'Siamese" is steel horse fed by three
fire engines. 1t takes at least twelve men
to handle it. The force of the jet of
water thrown by it is so great that it
plowed up the coal piles as though they
had been heaps of loose ashes, and if a
man should happen to come in it's way
he would be instantly killed.
"City Offices" will be the name of a
new kind of offices to be opened in At
tOrney Albeek's building in the central
part of Copenhagen. Many business men
who live in the outskirts of the city can
not afford to rent offices in the business
center of the city. In the 'city offices"
such parties may rent only a desk and
the space which it occupies for an aver
age charge of seven dollars a month.
Many such desks will be placed in each
room of the building.
SWEDEN.
It is proposed to erect a statue of King
Gustaf Vasa at the historic spot in Mora
where he spoke to the Dalarne yeomanry.
King Oscar has promised to be the patron
of the movement. 1t is already settled
that the monument will be executed by
Anders Zorn.
Public-spirited citizens Of Vexio have re-
= solved to spend $4,000 for the restoration
of the ruins of Kronoberg citadel.
In "the children's well'' at Odetofta, al
most 5000 copper and silver coins from
the seventeenth century have been re-
covered.
- The Retail Liquor Company Of Malmo Is
bent on reforming itself In Malmo, as
we'll as elsewhere in Europe, strong
drinks are served by men and women
indiscriminately. The managers of the
Malmo company have resolved to employ
no women as bartenders after the expira-
tion of the terms of the women serving
In that capacity. The rule shall apply not
only to regular saloons but also to restau-
TdutS serving liquors..
One thousand young pickerel have been
planted in the moat around the Lands
krona CASTLE
Emil Schering, the German translator
of Strindberg's works, claims that Strind-
berg>had been influenced by Schiller.
The Duke OF Cajanello, whose wife is a
Swedish lady, has been elected mayor of
Naples, Italy.
The Swedish Academy is said to have
awarded the entire Nobel prize for the
best literary production to one man. but
the name of that fortunate fellow will
not be made public until Dec. 10.
The depot agents at some of the sta
tions along the Kristianstad & Glimakra
Railway are women.
There are 1,427 voluntary rife clubs in
Sweden, and the active membership is
over 10000. The number of shots fired at
target practice on the 1,700 ranges of the
clubs in 1900 was 6,3OOOO0. About $4,000
men participated in the target practice.
Major-General Rudbeck and Col. Lem
chen have incurred the displeasure Of the
rifle clubs by declaring that their efforts
are Of no value. as the clubs are organ
lied at present. The criticism of those
gentlemen is partly explained by the fact
SAAoI eASJ eAAO contemplating d 1cOISdulZd-
tion of the clubs. An impartial spectator
would say that the efforts of the volun-
teer rifle clubs of Sweden during the past
five years have materially improved the
fighting capacity of the Swedish people,
and so far they are the very reverse of a
failure.
Damp snow loaded down the hands of
the public time-piece of Stockholm to such
an extent few evenings ago that at a
certain moment four Of them pointed to
1870. 11:15. S:25 and Has, while the right
time was 8:55
Landskrona will soon have new So, 900
public school house.
The king has decided to set aside $4,000
for the support of Swedish clergymen
stationed at the foreign seaport cities of
Copenhagen, Kiel, West Hartlepool and
Dunkirk.
The city government of Stockholm is
expected to appropriate a snug sum of
money for entertaining the Good Tenn
plars at their International convention,
which will be held in Stockholm in the
first part of July, 1902.
-Four Swedes. backed by something like
million dollars of American money,
have organized butter extracting COM
pany, the headquarters of which shall be
in Stockholm. y
In the parish of Gryt there is only one
man who owns the ground on which he
lives. Most of the inhabitants rent land
from the managers of the Wanas estate.
The Stockholm rat war has resulted in
4 thr death Of $4,000 rats. AS in South
Africa, the end Of the war is not In sight.
Two girls Of the. ages of eight and
eleven years lost their way in forest at
Askhult, svinhult parish, and the falling
snow not only covered up their tracks but
presumably their slifeless bodies so that