Warren sheaf., 1901-09-05
f'si5s,
NORWAY.

DR.. Armauer Hansen, of Bergen. cele-
brated his sixtieth birthday anniversary
Auguth tenth, on hichgaoccasion a bust
representing him, was unveiled. DR..
Hansen was the fdiscoverer. of the leprosy
/ bacillus. @5 5| .-'-. ..
/ monument has sssbeen erected on the
grave Of Rev. Heyerdahl, a member of
the constitutional 81 convention of Eds
void. His grave is located at Gran ceme-
terry. s5s
The national convention of the Nor
wegian socialists yielded somewhat on
the question of taxa tions Their old plat
form demanded the "abolishment of all
indirect taxes" while the new paragraph
on the same subject says: 1--WE demand
the greatest possible reduction of indi-
| rect taxation" Their demand for high
| er taxes on untitled, tillable land and
on vacant city lots, proves that the work
! of Henry George on single tax has not
been wasted on the Norwegian socialists.
| The whole number of persons who emf
grated from Norway in; 1900, was 1881,
which is almost twicesthe number for
each of the few past years. There were
6,S7S males and 4,05S females, and 1880
of them came from the country, and 3,O41
from the cities and towns.
/ Hamar has 1,7O9 voters.
| Kragero has no saloons (samlag). But
Stathelle has one. The keeper of the
latter sold liquors in sKragero nearly
fevery day. The local court fined him
E$50 on the assumption that he sold his
goods in Kragero, where no liquors
Eshould be retailed. But. the supreme
court reversed the%decision on the ground
that the goods were sold at Stathelle to
parties residing in Kragero.
I Norway exported 46, 700 tons of ice in
July. .. ...-. -. ,sa
| Some money was raised a number Of
years ago for the erection of a. monu-
ment in honor of Peter Dass, the poet
Iof Nordland Aug. 26, 1907, will be the
20Odth anniversary of his death. Alsta-
hong parsonage is mentioned as the most
Esuitable location for the monument
Z Jacob B. Bull has issued an appeal
Ito the Norwegian people to collect his
Etorical data from their neighborhoods as
ia means of preserving what would other
wise be forgotten and lost in the busy
hum of modern life. in Kristiania
{ Norway exported q 20 tons of canned
Lgoods in 1881, and the export for 1900
was 1900 tons. ssStavanger has always
been the great center of this industry.
4 Adolf Oien. of Trondhjem, commemor-
Eated the twenty-ffth anniversary of the
lsopening of his business as an Independent
smerchant by donating $2,7OO to the aid
|sfund of the merchants of his city.
Il A girl who was moving hay at Gjards-
lFviken, Sondmore, struck a humble bee
lsnest and in attempting to defend herself
against the Insects ran the point of her
sscythe into her chest SO that she bled to
death in a few seconds.
+ .~ SWEDEN. .a
L A boy at Orebro enjoyed bathing so
greatly that he would take as many as
mine baths in one day. But he finally be-
came so weak that he had to be turned
over to a doctor for medical treatment.
L. A contributor to the Gothenborg Han
|gdelstidning dwells upon the habit of" Sc
lecting drinking vessels-bowls, goblets,
horns, cups, etc.--as prizes for those who
have distinguished themselves in some
laudable endeavor, and he arrives at the
conclusion that out of respect for the
great temperance movement other objects
ought to be selected as prizes for merits.
|. The city council of Gehe has voted IA
vorably upon proposition to have the
city invest $81, 900 in a new normal-guage
railway between Gefle and Hernosand.
| l The Olofstrom Steel Pressing Company
has succeeded in beating the world in
the manufacture of steel cases for torpe-
does, and the company is receiving many
| orders from foreign countries.
The riksdag asked for a mass Of elab-
Grated and systematized statistical data
in regard to the incomes and wealth Of
the Swedish people, such information be-
ing needed for the purpose Of *levying
progressive incomean property tax on
every taxpayer in the country. Since
July Is about Is persons have been engag-
| ed in dividing thetax-payers into a num-
ber Of groups, or classes. AS to incomes,
the whole number Of groups is about 80.
| The difference between any two consecu-
tive groups at the bottom Of the scale is
only from SIS to $50, while at the top the
difference is thousand Of dollars.
At the annual meeting of the Soderman-
land and Ostergotlapd Forestry associa-
ton it was proposed to put a tax on
cats, the rate to be 1871 cents for one
cat and $1.35 for every additional cat
kept at the same house. People who are
interested in preserving the game are
vigorously supporting the proposition.
Some gentlemen in Gefe and Upsala
h;asked the ladies to express themselves
l in the press in regard to the habit OF
/ appearing in shirt waists, and q number
Of emancipa ladies q Ostersund fol-
/ lowed up the suggestion by publishing
4 the following in q local newspaper: We
pity the miserable men very much in this
heat, and we shall be very glad to see
them in their Shirts"
Last July was by far the hottest and
Esdryest. month recorded in Upsala.s w The
weather station at that place was ses-
! tablished in 1889. @is II &
/ The fishermen of Southwestern Skane
are more prosperous this season than
I they have been for years. thanks to the
abund bund lance of erring in that part of the the
iBaltic. II: