Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-23
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.
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Norrland Honesty.-A traveller who
was to pay his stage driver at distant
village store in Angermanland handed
him large bill. The storekeeper
happened to be outside at the time,
and the stage driver asked some farm
ers who were waiting for the store
keeper if they could change the bill.
But they could not. Then suppose
must go to the drawer" said the
stage driver, and he quietly stepped
oehlnd the desk, pulled out the money
drawer and changed the bill. Just
then the storekeeper entered, and the
stage driver said in a matter-of- fact
way, Il have changed ten kronor
Dill in the drawer" to which the store
keeper answered in a similar vein. It
was evident that both of them looked
upon this as a perfectly legitimate
way of handling another persons
money drawer.
The king has authorized the munich
patty of Malmo to contract loan of
$780, 900, to be paid in 40 years.
N. V. Wickstrom, an elderly gentle
man. is station agent at Raus, on the
Landskrona & Helsingborg railway
"A short while ago one of his sons, who
is only 81 years old, was appointed
general traffic manager of the road.
The commune of Fladie, Skane, re-
solved to take up loan of 81, $50, to be
Invested in seashore watering estab-
lishment owned by private parties,
but the king vetoed the resolution.
The general Lutheran conference,
which formerly was held in Germany,
will take place at Lund next Septem-
Der. Bishop Won Scheele was instru-
mental in bringing the conference to
Sweden. The Swedish and German
languages shall be used alternately at
the conference.
Helsingborg has 1854 inhabitants,
the females outnum boring the males
bv 400.
The beet sugar factories of southern
Sweden are crowded to their utmost
capacity, and everyone connected with
the sugar industry has reason to be
highly pleased.
A man who had just returned from
America, upon depositing some money
in a Gothenburg bank. was informed
that he had three 1O0-Sronor bills. He
had received them in good faith ID
New York.
1t is exactly SO years since the white
cap was chosen as mark of distinc-
ton by the students choruses in Swe-
den and Finland, and jubilee of
some kind is proposed.
The health of Prince Eugen is i'm
proving. He spent the Christmas with
the royal family in Stockholm.
At a recent election in Gef1e, 1,15S
out of a total of 1880 ballots were re-
jectcd because E. Engwald has
townsman by the same name.
- Moist, mild and murky indeed was
the weather of southern Sweden dur
ing the Christmas holidays. From a
meteorological point of view, Christ
mas was highly unsatisfactory to the
wealthy and well-to-do classes; but on
the other hand there was general hap
plness wherever the 'black diamonds"
were scarce.
The Christmas presents to the men,
bers of the royal family were distrib-
uted in the "White Sea-" at 4:4O p. m.
on Christmas day. About twenty
Christmas trees were placed along the
walls of the room. and the presents to
the different persons were arranged in
groups. Most Of the articles were of
Swedish or Norwegian manufacture,
and some of them had been made by
the princes themselves.
The government of the city of Simla,
IS II u.
tains, India, has requested the Swed-
ish-Norwegian consul general at CAL
cutta to engage an efficient Swedish
dairyman to take charge of a dairy
which is to be established in the near
future. The candidate must be mar
ried man and must have his wife with
him as assistant. The inducements
offered are $50 a month for man and
wife, free rooms, milk and butter.
The travelling expenses will also be
paid by the municipality of Simla.
Major Erik Phil, native of Stock
holm, who has served three years in
the Belgian army in Congo, has re-
ceived "L'etoile de service" the en-
blem of honor of the state of Congo.
The employees of the Gothenburg
gas works struck for higher wages,
but new men have been hired in their
places.
NORWAY.
A Swedish daily claims that the pop
ulation of Kristiania dropped from
226. 432 to 225, 729 during the year 1900.
The Duke of Abruzzi, in token of
gratitude to the Norwegians, has
made donation to the Nansen fund.
The exact amount is not known.
A shoal of "big herring" has struck
the shore at Hvaler. Considerable
quantities we're secured at the very
first approach of the fish.
1t has been proposed to appropriate
a part Of Krist cemetery, Kristiania,
and use the ground as site for tho
new court house. But as many noted
men were buried in said ground. a
number of prominent citizens have
signed vigorous protest against the
proposed change.
The home for incorrigible children
at Basto is an expensive institution,
the state of Norway having paid $S05
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