Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-10-25

AlhB OSCar mas expressed MS Wiling.
ness to pay for the complete restoration
Of Tycho Brahe's astronomical labora-
tory, S~tjerneborg, ON the island Of Hyeen.
In the commune Of Jockmock the public
buildings just completed or in course Of
construction cost over 100000. These and
other improvements. are rapidly turning
4 frontier settlement into a modern COM
munity.
The city of Linkoping has been lighting
the streets according tot@a moonlight
schedule. But the inconvenience is great.
while the reduction of the expenses of
the department is only three per cent.
Hence, mex year the streets Will be light
ed, moon or no moon.
King Oscar passed through Norrkoping
on his way from the eastern to the north
ern railway depot, the whole time spent
in the city being only twenty minutes.
But the committee on arrangements re-
ported an expenditure Of s., 200 for trium-
phal arches. etc.
The king has permitted the Swedish
Photographed and Biological Commit
tee to use the gunboat Svensksund for
making Investigations in the Baltic and
the Kattegat. Travellers and experts in
handling them will accompany the gun
boat.
The city council Of Kalshamn has re-
solved to sell the Western Blekinge rail-
ways to he Central Blskinge Railway
Company for 1851, 900.
Rev. G.. Mollstadins reports from the
provincial Jail at Kristianstad that re-
l1gtous affiliations do not seem to cut any
figure in the percentage Of criminality.
the different religious bodies, including
the Baptists, Mission Friends and Saliva
tionists. being represented in Jail some
what in the same proportion as the men,
bers of the state church.
Stockholm, Oct. 14.-The postal statis-
tics for the year 1900 show that since in
ternational money orders were inaugu-
rated in 1885, the United States sent to
Sweden $13. 1903. 4S0 more than was received
in the United States from Sweden.
NORWAY.
There are about ESQ public libraries in
Norway. and one single amt, that Of
Romsdal. has rs. They contain $780, 900
books.
Leo Berg, a German publicist. has writ
ten: a book on Henrik Ibsen, whom he
calls 'the great European conscience"
''the' main wheel of the mental machinery
of our tines 1.-THE man Of great mys-
teries and riddles" etc. These are strong
words. perhaps too strong. The most
valuable. chapters are those treating of
Ibsen's influence upon German literature
and mental culture.
The water in Bergen harbor is so po-
luted that the fish are dying in great
numbers.
Sven Aarrestad, the president of the
Norwegian Total Abstinence Association,
stated at the annual meeting Of the as
ISOLATION that strong drinks must have
had something to do with the grounding
Of the gunboats Sleipner and Torden-
skiold. The authorities would not pass
this unnoticed, and Aarrestad was sum-
moned to Drammen to testify in the mat
ter. He frankly admitted that he sus-
pected that the officers in charge Of the
gunboats were under the influence of
liquor at the time Of the accidents, and
he supported his assertion by what might
be called circumstantial evidence.
Four Catholic priests residing at from
so, Hammerfest, Trondenes and Trond-
hjem. were recently granted the rights
of Norwegian citizenship. Their names
SAAo IAAOy / 1CA1 oil @
Kristiania. Oct. 14.-The storthing has
agreed to the following increases in the
duties on tobacco: On raw tobacco, from
"a cents to 80 cents per pound; on manu-
featured tobacco, from 29h cents to 361a
cents a pound; on cigars, from 67k cents
to 81 cents a pound. The new rates will
be in force from the time of the passage
Of the bill.
Paul Mikalsen Samasjoen, Of Horstad,
and his two boys. were out tending to
their fishing gear when a huge whale
rose close by the boa and literally bit
off the hind part of the boat in it's pur-
suit Of a shoal Of herring. The three
persons were thrown into the water, but
their lives were saved.
The Kristiania Museum of Sculptures
will be transferred to the state Jan. /,
1903, and two new wings will be added
to the old building.