Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-03-28
NORWAY.


The electric plant which was built
at Rombaksbotten for the production
of motive power for boring tunnel
on the Ofoten railway has just been
completed, at a cost of SIS, 900.
The estimated wealth of the city of
Trondhjem is $11, 1000, 900, and the esti-
mated income for the present year is
S., 10000
The Smaalene canal is owned partly
by the state and partly by private per-
sons. This joint ownership is caus-
ing constant friction, and it is pro-
posed to have the state buy the inter-
ests of the private owners. The canal
in the vicinity of Skien is owned and
controlled exclusively by the state,
and this arrangement is giving gen.
eral satisfaction.
Mr.. Aamot of Skien has signed a
contract to furnish 10000 young trees
year to the local forestry association.
woman found a pocketbook con-
tanning $50 on the street in Kristiania
She returned it to it's owner, who gave
her $50 per cent-and hired her to
work in his Office.
Mr.. Marble, Kristiania business
man, who died a short while ago. do
mated $50, 900 to charita BILE institutions.
Bjornson is planning a new drama.
The electric railways of Kristiania
conveyed G, 900 passengers less in Feb
ruary this year than last.
Rjornson and wife will soon leave
Paris for Stuttgart, and after short
stay there they will proceed to Italy.
The stockholders of the Kristiania
electric street car company have pock-
eted dividend of Z per cent for 1900.
The discussion of the hygienic as
poets of the habit of passing the COM
munion cup from mouth to mouth is
still kept up. Some things said on
this subject imply neither to the lofti-
est wisdom nor the profoundest piety.
DR.. Graarud, a member of the stor-
thing. for instance, proposes that the
communicate put both lips, that is to
say, the whole snout, into the cup.
while Verdens Gang closes an editorial
thus: ITO compel people in our day to
drink from the same vessel and of the
same fluid at the same time as numer-
Gus strangers, cannot be characterized
as anything short of swinishness.'
Bjornson says he admires the French,
their country and their institutions.
But they stand alone in the world in
many respects, they can neither under
stand nor be thoroughly understood
by others. Just now they are heaping
honors upon Bjornson as best they
can, and an author has even written a
fowery, high-sounding poem about
him. But still he said to an inter-
viewer: 1T is very beautiful and flow
cry, and fattering in every respect,
but the author does not understand
the least bit of me-" Feeling like a
stranger among strangers, he does not
care to stay in the French capital any
longer, but intends to 60 to Germany.
where some of his dramas have scored
a remarkable success during the past
few weeks
Henrik lbsen has been troubled with
the grip for some time, but he is re-
covering and spends part of each day
in his study.
storm off Skudesnes. OF the nine men
in the boat five were rescued, but one
of them died without regaining con-
seriousness.
The disasters caused by storms along
the west coast of Norway in the course
of the past two years have aroused the
government to the realization of the
necessity of taking measures to pre-
vent similar disasters in the future,
and one of the results will doubtless
be the establishment of central
weather station at Bergen.
SWEDEN. " .~st
Albert BONNER, rich publisher, has
set aside $40, 900 for the benefit of poor
authors. Only the interest shall be
distributed. About $1,000 will be
available next year, and no award
shall be less than $135.
The fund for monument to King
Charles XIV. amounts to $50, OOO
The sugar beet season was closed
few days ago. The nineteen sugar
factories in Sweden consumed SIS, OIL
tons Of beets, this being the crop of
1900. .".2
The central committee of the volun-
teer gun clubs of Sweden appointed
committee to call on the crown prince
and try to induce him to withdraw
his resignation as chairman of the
central committee. But he remained
firm. The crown prince resigned be-
cause the executive committee re-
solved to raise money by a national
lottery. The crown prince holds that
inasmuch as the aim of the gun clubs
is to defend the country, the govern
ment should pay at least part of their
necessary expenses.
Several new buildings are to be put
up as part Of the powder mills at An
Inelot