Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-11-20

Thirteen ladies are attending the Uni-
versity OF Lund during the present year.
according to an old story, q young
person taking dew bath early insS an
October morning will be married IN the
course OF, the year. In Skane young peo-
pie have been taking advantage Of thia
cnance as late as the year 1901, ==,.g--e<
pn account OF the drouth last summer.
Tue sugar neets ran so deep into the
sfouho tnat y requires an extra rdinary
amount 1'n0'lAn OF work. to dig them. For that
reason the beet diggers complain that
'ney cannot make decent wages. 80 q,
a stnlrty-year-old walnut tree at wexto
mas ~, borne ripe nuts for the first time,
Inc NEPTUNE Wrecking Company is go
Ing 70 send Herakles; one of its steam
CTS, TO East Africa to raise a submerged
Hyoock built at the expense of the Ger
man government. - -
1t Is said that the Swedish Bog Culture
society is about to erect an office build
ing or its own in Jonkoping.
:Engelholms Tidning says: IA contract
or advertised for men to build road, Of
lerlng 6I3 cents a day. The result was,
tnat one man came, but he worked only
nal1 day and then disappeared. 1t is
not long since 54 cents was considered
good pay, and the wages were often only
S7k cents a day.
NORWAY.
Many Norwegians thought it was queer
that no mention was made of Otto Sver-
drup's expedition in Perry's report. Our
latest advices from Norway explain the
matter Perry's secretary sent the fol-
lowing cablegram to those who fitted out
Fran, Capt. Sverdrup's vessel: 1.-THE
steamer Erik has obtained absolutely no
information about Frcm, which was last
seen by natives from Etah, Aug H. 1885,
Erik brings back the mails intended for
Fran. and they will be returned to Nor
way At least one thing now seems GER
tain: Fran has started for the pole in
dead earnest.
The storthfng was opened Oct H. Pre-
mier Steen read the speech from the
throne, in which it is stated that the
Chinese indemnity tariff of five per cent
ad valorem affects Norwegian exports,
The speech further proposes a reorgan-
lzatlon Of the general staff, the geo.
graphical survey and the volunteer rifle
clubs. The expenditures of the govern
ment have swollen beyond the receipts
produced by the present laws, hence the
proposed stamp tax. No mention is made
Of the consular service question. The old
presidents and e-presidents were re-
elected in both chambers.
Orebladet pretends to know that the
Notifications at Fredrikshald and Kongs-
vlnger, near the Swedish boundary line,
are a failure, and that it will take many
millions of kroner above and beyond the
official estimates to make them effective.
Prof. Axel Hoist has gone to India to
study the bubonic plague and other trop-
ical diseases.
The last Danish ship to sail from Green
land to Denmark this year arrived at
Copenhagen Oct. 10. The places around
Disko Bay had been visited, but abso-
lutely nothing could be learned about
Sverdrup's expedition.
The expenditures of the University of
Norway for the current year are 1924. $780,
Norefjeld, a mountain near Drammen,
southern Norway. was covered with snow
Oct. 6.
The government has proposed an ap-
preparation of $3.50 for an appropriate
celebration Of the anniversary Of the one
hundredth birthday of N. R. Abel, which
occurs August 5, 1902. Abel was the great
est mathematical genius ever produced
by Scandinavia. He died at the early age
Of twenty-seven years.
The increase of the annual expendi-
lures for the army and navy and the de-
lenses during the past ten years is start
ling, the amounts being s3,6SS0O and $5,-
.94O,000 in 1892 and 1902, respectively But
all classes of people seem to take it as
matter of course. During the early
nineties many Norwegians were actually
afraid that Sweden might cause trouble.
But complete change has taken place
since Russia abrogated the constitution
of Finland. Now at last it is dawning
on all thinking minds on the Svandinavi-
on all thinking minds in the Scandinavia
an peninsula that Norway and Sweden
must stand together or not stand at all
at some future date.
A number Of leading natives Of Nord-
land, who are residing in Kristiania, re-
Gently held meeting with the view of
raising funds for the erection Of monu-
ment to Peter Dass. the gEeat Nordland
poet. Now that bishops and professors
have taken up this matter, monument
is confidently expected.
The city council of Kristiania has elect
ed two inspectors and two alternates for
each Of the nineteen school districts of
the city, to see that only needy children
take advantage of the free meals served
at the public schools during the winter
season.
The number of voters in Kristiania. is
6s, 600, of whom 2S,7OO are women. Several
thousand may be disqualified. however,
because they have not paid last years
taxes
/ The managers of a concert hall in
Kristiania are not in a position to insinu-
ate themselves with the workingmen after
it has been ascertained that they or
dered chairs for the hall from Vienna
+; The committee on ways and means pro-
poses an appropriation of $4,000 for Nor
ways participation in the fisheries expo
sition in st. Petersburg.
On the Lieform. Voss, number of
beads and parts of bronze brooches have
been unearthed. They are supposed to
date from the eighth or ninth century.
INCIDENTS AND INDIVIDUALS.
In spite of his devotion to politics,