Willmar tribune., 1901-05-01
SCANDINAVIAN |. NEWS.
interesting Notes From Across the
tsss &; Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
rr'ncipal Events That Have Occurred
7 an the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.


1he communion table. He proposes that
the officiating clergyman be provided
With a tray holding about a dozen Guns
When he has filled the cups he takes the
tray in his left hand. walks around to
the communicates and hands each ono of
them cup. When one set of Guns has
oeen used clean set is placed on the
Tray ana the minister proceeds until all
'he communicates are served Dr. Selmer
can see no objection to glasses instead of
lhetal cups, but he thinks the chalice
form ought to be retained on account Of
Its beauty.
B)ornson will be unable to make a
speech at the unveiling of the Torden-
skiold monument on the seventeenth of
May.
The kristiania Retail Liquor Company
tsamlag) cleared $195. $50 on the sale Of
distilled liquors in 1900. Fifty-fve per
cent of this amount goes to the state, Is
per cent to the city. 5000 as interest to
the stockholders and the balance as gifts
TO about one hundred organizat tons of
various kinds.
IN tne GraVehalsen tunnel. ON the KRIS
t'an'a & Bergen Railway a layer Of
copper ore has been struck. The place
is in the middle of the mountain through
which the tunnel passes.
The stockholders of Trondhjemmekan-
1ske Verksted will receive no dividends
for the past year. The manager pro-
poses that the capital stock be raised
from $4,000 to $27O,OOO
Mr.. Hougen has retired from public
life after having served as principal of
the kragero public school over fifty
years.
The Randsfjord pulp and paper manu-
1acturlng company has declared a divi-
dend of II per cent for the year 1900
Eighteen Norwegians were decorated
with French orders on account of their
connection with the Paris worlds fair
DENMARK.
At the local elections in Copenhagen
the radical social democratic ticket made
a clean sweep. three Leftists and three
social democrats being elected aldermen
by vote of 1900. The average vote
polled by the conservative candidates was
O'4Vo' making the average majority Of
the vlctors about $500 votes. Last year
the same party had a majority of $780,
f. Olden, young dairyman. about
year ago claimed that he had invented
butter. Time alone could tell whether he
was right or not. Accordingly. a box of
fresh butter treated by him was closed
up, sealed by a notary public and placed
In the vault of the Copenhagen Pivat
Bank. The sample has just been tested
and is officially declared to be fine, first
class butter" and some oleomargarine
kept by the side of it was equally well
preserved. The quality of the goods was
absolutely unchanged. and chemical tests
failed to locate any foreign substance in
the butter. 1t is supposed that other
eatables may be preserved in the same
manner. A company has been organized
to exploit the invention.
Dr. Deichmann. who has participated
In two expeditions to Greenland. has
again left for that inhospitable country.
This time he proposes to start a bac-
THEOLOGICAL laboratory at Holsteinsborg
West Greenland. He is accompanied by
his wife. who is a painter.
Some pothOuse politician has proposed
that Denmark make bargain with
Germany by trading away her Danish
West Indies for strip of South Jutland
The famous butter preserver The
statement made a short time ago to the
: effect that one Christensen Olden had
kept tub of butter perfectly fresh for
over year. But there is an ugly kink
in the story. The alleged inventor of the
new method. Christensen Olden, had
committed forgery. changing the date Of
the certificate of the notary public from
FEB. 22. 1901" to FEB. 22 19OO," making
it appear that the tub of butter in uues-
tion had been kept over one year, while,
as a matter of fact. it had been kept only
a few days. The company organized for
the purpose of exploiting the alleged in
Vention has dropped the matter, but the
police authorities are upon the heels Of
the man who is responsible for the whole
yarn.
The exports of Denmark for the year
1900 were $101. 10000. and the imports s75,-
100000. the exports exceeding the imports
by almost SIG, .O0O
Weak-that is the right word to ex-
press the character of the Danish cab
met after election. The falkething is
composed of ia members. and only OF
these now belong to the government par
ty! Well might the Danish people expect
the Sehested ministry to resign. A daily
of April states that the resignation was
expected to be handed to the king April g.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis is spreading
reported within short time.
. The Danish Total Abstinence Associa.
tion. at convention in Fredericia. made
the following appeal to the voters just
before election: ELECTORS! Be sober on
the day of election! This is of great inn
portance to the soundness of our po-
litical life and the morals of our public
life.''
The present status of the liquor traffic
in Landskrona is far from satisfactory,
and the Gothenborg system will be in
troduced at an early date.
The city Of Helsingborg is about to
float bonds to the amount of at least
$3.50, 600.
The sugar manufacturers of Skane have
donated 5000 to the Fridhem agricul-
tural college. ' =" IL
The chief of the general staff is in favor
4 Of making 1t the duty of the sherifrs of
Linden to. send a complete report every
fifth year to the war department on the
condition of the roads,: bridges. ferries
and fords in their districts. To collect
this information by means of special
functionaries. would cost an enormous
amount OF money. -~52 = ~: G.''':| :. - J
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