Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-03-07

.celVeS. 81 per cent Oh n surplus. Inc
remaining 20 per cent ie distributed
among a large number of charitable
and. other institutions.
Hilda Stang, a twelve-year-old girl,
made a leap Of IS feet without falling,
at a national ski match at Gjovik.
She won q prize of $6.75, and n Of
her admirers wrote a pretty little
poem about her "darting twenty GU
bits through the air"
SWEDEN.
DR.. Won Kaufman, who has been
enquiring into the mineral resources
of Sweden for years, states that the
wealth of the country in this respect
is very great. But he said that in
his opinion it is but poorly developed.
DR.. Kaufman has demonstrated the
faith that is in him by purchasing
several tract sof mineral lands in the
vicinity of Vexio. The chief minerals
in that part of the country + cop
per, zinc, lime, sulphur, slate and
possibly iron. Two distinct mining
companies will be organized in Swe-
den for exploiting the property, and
arrangements have been made with a
strong Belgian syndicate for mining
the zinc. -@
Claeson, the minister of ecclesias-
teal affairs, has enforced new rules
regarding the change of family
names, without taking the trouble to
place the matter before the riksdag.
The riksdag asked the king to propose
a bill On that subject in 1898, but in
stead of introducing the bill in the
riksdag, according to the request OF
that body, the government drew up
rules and began to enforce them be-
fore the majority of the members Of
the riksdag knew what was going on.
So far we have not seen the explana-
ton of the government, and that may
place the matter in q somewhat diff
ferent light
Many members of the riksdag are
in fvaor of making arrangements for
a great national lottery for the bene-
fit of the government. One of the
strongest arguments in favor of the
lottery is. that the Swedes spend
{, $1,000 a year for Danish lottery
tickets. This estimate, which was
made by a Danish authority, is sew
eral hundred thousand dollars in ex-
cess of the expenditures of the Dan
ish government to the navy and the
civil department. Able Swedish
agents can easily make one thousand
dollars a year by selling Danish lot
terry tickets in Sweden.
Swedish politeness. A laborer en-
ployed in a Gothenborg lumber yard
was summoned before the police court
on the charge Of having abused a po-
liceman. 1t was proved, however,
that the policeman had said du
(thou) instead of nj (you) to the Ia
borer, and the court dismissed the
laborer with the explanation, that
when a policeman says 'du" to a
stranger he must expect unpleasant
words.
A chip of the old block was Inga
Olsdotter of Borgsjo, Asele, who re.
Gently died at the age of 80 years,
She had never taken five cents worth
of medicine in her life. A few years
ago she got two new teeth, and as her
old hair dropped off, new hair of a
beautiful brown grew out in its place,
Thirty years ago she had to wear
glasses, but of late her eye sight i'm.
proved until she could read the finest
print without glasses. She was mar.
ried at the age of seventeen. and she
leaves six great-great-children, not to
mention the three intermediate gen.
erations.
A mountain gray" uniform for thu
army has been made as a sample, ano
the soldiers r strongly in favor Of
it. But as the authorities seem to be
stuck OF blue, some shade of that col.
or may still win the day.
The state railways of Sweden car
ried 12,000,000 passengers in 1901, the
private railways 10000, 900. The whole
number Of live animals carried wa.
$4,000.
Swedish engineers are at hessheat
Of ;ne tra vi building telephone
sy. Il ~ i, II, srow and Warsaw, Rus
>:u. .s9..rs= :,~r1 If the labor is also
?erfcrt,e" = aw, 81 %laJorers, wht
":e Gu i:isn,ty ie:n.> ~:1!i the Rus
sian iatau:ers.
No, a speck of SAow was TO i've seer
i'll stail,ern sweden about Jan. %.
The Young Mems Army of Swe
den will be the name Of u new mill
tary organization. 1t is to ue purel!
voluntary, and its members will b.
clie:..y young men of fifteen to TWEEN
: :;ear>, of age. Special efforts will
* made 10 enlist young students.