Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-01-04
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND
Principal Events That Have Occurred
in the. Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.

1880 SAS vi NH
of them in Frodaryd and other parishes
in Jonkopinglan. The syndicate has also
bought much other real estate, including
vast peat boys. The ore is to be carried
partly on a new railway to Stockaryd,
party to Safsjostrom, these places being
stations on existing railways. DR.. Kauf-
man is the Swedish representative of the
syndicate.
Mr.. c. E. Gren made a contract with
the railway department which granted
him the sole right to carry provisions by
rail to the country north of Gellivore.
But the consumers signed a complaint to
the railway department., and Mr.. Gren's
monopoly will be abolished January first.
An officer in the English navy recently
gave a lecture on the naval affairs of
Sweden. The lecturer said that the
Swedish navy is not only unpretentious
but is apt to prove inadequate in case of
war. But though the naval defenses of
Sweden are somewhat unsatisfactory the
navy is served by very efficient men, and
the naval academy of Sweden is known
very favorably throughout the civilized
world.
The beech forests of Skane are cut
down at a rapid rate, and in many locali-
ties spruce trees are planted in their
place.
N. A. Berge. a public school teacher at
Askersund, has decided to start a week
ly paper for the profit and pleasure of all
single men of Sweden"
A new government railway running be-
tween Orebro and Krylbo was opened for
public traffic Dec. ~.
The statistical bureau has just issued
reports on the savings banks of Sweden
for the year 1898. At the close of that
year there were 376 savings banks in the
country. The whole number of deposits
was LII, ISL, and the aggregate deposits
$10S. 800, 900. Malmohuslan has the best
showing. Although a mere patch as COM
pared with the rest of the country, its
savings banks contain more than one
fourth of the total deposits for the whole
country.
A Stockholm banker has donated two
thousand books to the Swedish, Bankers
Union. Most of the books treat of po-
litical economy, civil government and his
tory.
A mass meeting at Gefe, which was at
tended by more than 1000 persons, re-
solved to organize an association for sys-
tematically combating the drink evil.
Prof. N. P. Odman was elected president,
and the other members Of the 'executfve
committee shall be elected by six differ
ent organizations.
The city of Vadstena celebrated the
fve-hundredth anniversary of it's estab-
lishment Dec, 8. The schoo children
paraded the streets and divine services
were held in the monastry church.
The Employers Union of southern
Sweden recently held a largely attended
convention at Helsingborg. It was de-
cided that the annual dues of each men,
Der shall be 81 cents for each grown per-
son and u cents for each minor which he
employs. The. following peculiar resolu-
ton was also adopted: The executive
committee shall invite the board of aid
ermen and the managers Of the harbor Of
Helseingborg to send representatives to
the Employers Union; for their interests
are identical with ours and the EN-
ployers' Union has manifested itself not
as an instigator to combat but as a power
aiming at a peaceful solution of labor
problems"
The sale of stamps for public. docu-
ments netted the government $1,67Q, 900 for
the year 1899.
A certain private railway company has
been doing some snide business. The
agents at many Of it's stations are post
masters. But their pay as postmasters
was only nominal. and in order to save
itself from paying them decent salaries
the company managed to make the gov
eminent raise their salaries as postmas-
tiers. The modus operandi was as follows:
The company ordered all it's postage
stamps from one Of those stations, SWELL
ing the business of that station so enor-
mously that the government raised the
salary or ITS postmaster. AS soon as this
was accomplished the company would
transfer its business to another station.
There was a significant reduction in the
sale of postage stamps after the increase
in the salary Of the postmaster had been
made, but when the government has
raised the salary Of a postmaster It is
very slow in reducing it again. 1t is evil
dent that such dealings as the above dc
not tend to make the private railroad
companies popular.
The department of agriculture has
asked for an appropriation of s11, 900 fol
the determination of the May bug pest
A professor named Lidfors seriously
proposes hat Sweden be admitted int
the German empire on the same term.
as the Kigdoms of Bavaria, Saxony ant
Wurtemberg. His reason for proposin.
such a step is hat he hates awfully t,
be gobbled up by the Russians.
Rich deposits of iron ore have bee,
found at ~Tuollavare. on government LAM
and a mining company is negotiating will
the government for the lease of abou
1875 acres for a period of fifty years. TIL,
place is located only a short distanc
from L~uossavaara. Norrland.
Rev. Nils Lofgren of Gene has beel
appointed bishop of the diocese of Yes
teras.
1t is claimed that o. W. Rosendahl, O
Karpalund has invented a new kind O
governor for regulating the speed O
steam engines. The main feature of tn
new contrivance is that the engineer ma,
give his engine any desired speed. an
: when the governor is once set the spec
: remains constant.
The Vulcan Match Manufacturing com
q any of Tidaholm has resolved to pa
, 70 per cent of the wage as a pension t
employees who are 65 years old and VIII
do not share the profits. The compan
> also sells cheap homes to it's employees a