Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-03
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
M Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FA1HERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old COuntries About the
North Sea Within a Week
:? or So. Just Paat.
NORWAY.


NORWAY.
Mrs. Ellen Gulbranson. the noted
Norwegian opera singer. has been en-
gagged by the Imperial Opera of Berlin
for the next winter season. She is to
receive Sill 900 for four months.
Several larks were seen in southern
Norway about the LIST of March. This
was rather early, and some of them
froze to death.
The attendance at the business col.
leges of Kristlania is between 2,OOO
and 5000. As result of the competi-
ton between the different schools of
this class, the general standard of in
struction has been lowered in the
course of the past few years.
A division of the army made sortie
from Kristiania and spent three days
marching and camping in the country
north of the city.
People are frequently held up and
robbed on the streets of Kristiania.
Verdens Gang says: 1T ought to be
clear to every body that if any country
in the world is interested in electric
railroading that country must be Nor
way. We have no coal mines, and as
long as our railway traffic is carried
ON by means of coal we are entirely
dependent upon imports from abroad.
"A material increase in the price, not to
mention war and blockades, would
ruin the whole traffic. But no prices,
no wars, no blockades, can stop our
waterfalls with their hundreds of
thousands of horsepowers. Our loco
motives alone consume quarter mill
ion dollars worth of coal year, and
to this must be added the interest, the
railroads being supplied one year IN
advance. This means money going
out OF the country. And, meanwhile,
the ever-fowing forces of our water
falls are left idle. This is the worst
political economy that can be mag
ined."
The storthing has resolved to estab-
lish horticultural college for women
at Berby, Idefjord. The first class
will consist of ten young ladies, who
arc to begin course of seven months
about the 1st of April.
A. Norwegian firm has commenced
to make heating stoves out of soap
stone. They cost a little more than
castiron stoves, but they are more Or
namental and far more durable.
, Anders Sandstad, of Ytteroen, is the
Oldest living man who has occupied a
seat in the Norwegian storthing. He
was born Sept. -. 1904. and served in
the storthing in 1s4s-51 and 1s59-6O
He has held practically all all the po-
sitions of trust and honor which his
community could confer upon him. He
had hobby. which was remarkable
fondness for horses. When he was SO
years old he rode about seven English
miles on horseback to funeral. His
in due course they have celebrated
their silver, gold. diamond, iron and
stone weddings. Mr.. Sandstad is still
strong and active and may live for
years to come.
The cost of the historical museum is
about 500, 600 in excess of the estimate
and the appropriation.
Bjornson's new drama. "Laboremus,"
(Let us work. will be published April
in Kristiania and Copenhagen. At
about the same time it will also appear
in English. German and French. I'm
mediately after its publication it will
be represented at several of the best
German theaters. The Kristiania ma
tional theater is prepared to present
the play in the immediate future.
Paragraph 80 of the constitution of
Norway has been amended so as to
give women the right to hold public
offices. The motion was introduced
by the government and was passed
without any opposition whatever.
The postal money orders. received
from America in 1900 amounted to
about 100000. while only $l1O, 900
passed in the opposite direction. The
former amount is record breaker.
C. C. Borchgrewink has written an
English book about his South Pole ex-
petition.
The Trondhjem samlag has a sur
plus of $4,000 for the year 1900.
Johan Nilsson Aamodt and wife, of
Sitskogen. celebrated their golden
wedding March 8.
The government is said to be plan
ming for the esta blishment of a system
of employment bureaus, covering the
rural communities, as we'll as the
cities. 1t is claimed that such a sys.
tenn would be equally beneficial to the
employers and the employees