Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-04-04
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND,
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So Just Past.
NORWAY.

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 Krist,ania is between 2, 600
and 5000. AS result of the COMPETE
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: st 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
the ever-fiowing 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, ldefjord. The first class
will consist of ten young ladies, who
are to begin course of seven months
about the list 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
seat in the Norwegian storthing. He
was born Sept. IL, 1904, and served in
the storthing in 1s4S-51 and 1s59-6O.
He has held practically all all the po-
sltions OF trust and honor which his
community could confer upon him. He
had Il hobby, which was a renarka BILE
fondness for horses. When he was SO
years old he rode about seven English
miles on horseback to funeral. His
wife is only three years his junior, and
in due course they have celebrated
their silver, gold, diamond, iron and
stone weddings Mr.. Sandstad is still
strong and active aud may live for
years to come
The cost of the historical museum is
about $780, 900 in excess of the estimate
and the appropriation.
Bjornson's new drama, "Laboremus,' -
Net lis work,) win be published April
2 in kristiania and Copenhagen. At
about the same timeit 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 ia the immediate future.
Paragraph % 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 800, 600. while only SllO, 900
passed in the opposite direction. The
former amount is a record-breaker.
&C. Borchgrewink has written an
English book about his South Pole ex-
petition
The Trondhje1n samlag has a sur
plus of $50, oou for the year 1900.
Johan Nilsson Aalnodt and wife, of
| Sitskogen, celebrated their golden
wedding March 8.
The government is said to be plan
ming for the esta blishment of system
of employment bureaus. covering the
rural communities, as we'll as the
cities. It is claimed that such a sys-
tenn would be equally beneficial to the
employers and the employees.
/ SWEDEN ~
Fire broke out in the roof of Graf
varnes church. not far from Lysekil,
while the congregation was attending
service. A perfect panic ensued. But
the building was vacated without any
body being seriously injured Every
thing infiamma BILE in the building was
destroyed, only the bare walls remain
! ing. The building was erected in 1879
1 aud the loss is covered by insurance.
! The whole numb Of deposits made
in the Swedish postal savings bank
| since it was established. in 1854, was
!, O22, ga, and the amount of the depos-
its SAT, 400, 0OO The deposits in the
bank at the present time amount to
about $40, 900, 600. The money is in
vested chiefly in Swedish bonds
The public prosecutor has proposed
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