Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-05-10

About twenty men representing the
peat drying industry of Southern Swe-
den held a convention at Eslof and
agreed to reduce their prices, and also
passed a resolution in favor Of a re-
duction in railway rates. Those at
tending the convention handled $4,000
tons of peat last summer.
Both houses OF the riksdag have
passed the laborers' accident insurance
bill drawn up by the government.
The government, in order to make
the path of the army reorganization
bill through the riksdag a little
smoother, has appointed a committee to
revise the penal code of the army so as
to make it more humane, land make
the difference between this and the
civil avs less than it is at present."
The committee is composed of some Of
the most illustrious men in the king
dom.
The city of Malmo has 6O,454 inhabi-
tants. of whom 28,O92 are males and
80. 362 females.
The exact number of persons depend
ing upon the fisheries along the coast
OF Malmohus province for a living was
5,l94 in 1900, and their aggregate in
come was Sl64, 700. These returns are
below the average.
Five brothers and sisters were re-
Gently baptized on the same day at
sundre, GLAND. Their parents are
Baptists.
A new peat drying establishment
will soon be constructed in Rome, Got
land.
The town of Hoor has been lighted
with electricity since April 10.
The riksdag has resolved to add 30
teachers to the corps of instructors Of
the higher institutions of learning.
The city council of H~ernosand has
subscribed $50, 900 to the proposed Norr-
land coast railway,
The army reorganization bill is caus-
ing no end of friction, and the present
session of the riksdag is expected to
last until some time in June.
Count Arvid Posse, once a prominent
statesman. is not improving. But his
disease has entered a new stage. The
normal action of his brain has almost
ceased, while his digestion is still fair
~ good. His physicians think he may
remain in this condition for some
length of time.
Prof. Otto Nordenskjold has just re-
turned from London. where he spent
some time making arrangements for
his South Pole expedition He has al
ready raised $40, 900 of the $40, 900 which
the expedition is to cost, and he thinks
it will De an easy matter to raise the
balance. He intends to engage Capt.
Larsen, a Norwegian, as commander of
the Antarctic, which Prof. Norden-
skiold has purchased for the expedi-
ton. There will be % persons on
board the ship. and the expedition will
leave ~Gothenburg Sept. 4. Arof. Nor
denskjold will cooperate to a certain
extent with similar expeditions from
Germany and England.
Two national concerts were re-
Gently given in Stockholm to test the
work of those Swedish poets who are
competing with each other IN an at
oSAAPo w "1lGC d odU1SldCUOIy udClOudl
hymn. A committee had selected ten
of the best songs written by the COM
peting poets. and all of these ten were
sung by the national choir" which
was accompanied by the music band of
the Gotta body guard. The attendance
was large at both concerts, but no
number was received with marked en-
thusiasm. "Du Svenska bygd, du hem
i -Nord" (Thou Swedish settlement,
thou home in the North,) by Costa, re-
ceived 6s2 out of the 1,342 votes cast
by those who attended the concerts.
One poem out of the ten received only
II votes. This way of producing a ma
tional hymn is new, but so far its sue
cess is by no means unqualified.
DENMARK.
The new folkething is composed of As
farmers and landowners. 10 journalists,
s teachers, 5 tenant farmers, 4 business
managers, 5 lawyers, 8 merchants, 2
ex-members of the cabinet, 2 carpen-
tiers. 3 sea captainS. 9 candidates Of