Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-23


hagen since 1860, died there recently.
He was literally patronized by the
members of the royal houses OF Den
mark and Sweden and Norway and
was a great favorite. DR.. Read re-
fused to accept titles and decorations
and retained his American citizenship
in foreign land~ FOR over forty years.
Hounding the Finnish Clergy.
Bobrlkofl, the despot who is govern
or general of Finland, demands that
the clergymen who refused to read the
new Finnish military law be prosecut-
ed, That they will be severely
punished goes without saying, and
many will doubtless be removed I'M
less they resign.
Not on the Program.
One of the features of the unwilling
OF the statue to Magnus Stenbock at
Stockholm was very amusing when
the Countesses Stenbock mad Won
Schlieffen pulled the cords to release
the drapery and it failed to fall Two
men mounted the statue under the
drapery TO mend the fault and when
ii was fially released the men found
themselves CONSPICUOUS parts of the
group. They clambered down amid
great laughter
Wanted for Swedish Railways.
ways of Sweden has submitted to the
king proposition to appropriate s.
900 900 kroner for the purchase of new
rolling stock. The estimates include
thirty.four locomotives and 300 freight
cars. as well as thirty passenger
coaches and other stock.
Learning Old Morse.
Professor Tinglestad, recently APP
pointed to the chair or Scandinavian
languages at the University of North
Dakota, is in Copenhagen studying old
Morse and other branches connected
with his department,
Authority on teprosy.
A recent number of the British Med
ical Journal contains a lengthy bio
graphical sketch of DR.. G. II. A. Han
son, by DR.. II. p. Lee. DR.. Hanson
has achieved a worldwide fame in the
medical world by his attention to
leprosy and its contagious character.
Since 1868, when he was appointed
assistant physician at the Bergen
leprosy hospital, he has devoted him
self to the work. He has written
many interesting and valuable treats
es, beginning with one in 1869, when
he was but % years old. His dis
covery of the bacillus of leprosy was
made in 1873, or ten years before DR..
Koch discovered the bacillus of tuber-
culosis.
Norway's Wealth.
From the statistical bureau at
Christiania II is learned that the tax
able property of Norway Is placed at
2,097 800, 1879, considerably over half
being found in the country. The rich
est city is, OF course, Christlania, fol-
lowed by Bergen, Trondhjem. Dram
men and Stavanger in the order
named. The richest province or
country is Akershus and the poorest
is Finmarken.
NOTES.
Stockholm will soon have It's tenth
theater. E'ollSets Illus is being re-
modelled into theater which will seat
about 1,O00 persons.
| Ibsen's Peer Gynt was performed at
the theater de foeuvre. Paris. Dec.
1920, but with what success it mas
not been announced.
| haa IL
borg, Sweden. that Frederick Toy os
that city has been condemned and
shot as a rebel by the British at Coles
burg, south Africa.
The Norwegian storthing is discuss
ing law for the restriction OF debate
The members are not very enthus
iastic over the measure, as unrestrict-
ed debate suits them.
The exports from the custom dis.
trict of Christiania. Norway TO the
United States for the year 1901 az
sregated 100000, the principal items
being wood pulp and cod liver oil.
| Colonel Hans A. @. A. Panther
helm, superintendent of the Swedish
military academy Is dead, at the age
of 46 years. He was recognized as
one of the ablest military men in the
country.
The grand prize Of $4,000 kroner in
the Northern museum was won by "a
farmers son. who lives near Norberg
In Vestmannland. He says that he
will buy an estate with his fortune
A massive granite block over twelve
feet high will be raised on the grave
Of Arthur Hazelius, founder OF Skan-
sen, the most wonderful outdoor mu-
scum in the world and the Northern
museum.
/ Miss Beata Frunck, Stockholm's
oldest inhabitant, died recently at the
age of 101 years. Mrs. Sofia Selander
born Nov. 3, 1902. succeeds to the
honor which venerable Miss Frunck
has relinquished.
Princess Karadja, the leader of the
spiritualistic cult in Sweden, has been
sued by her father, l.. o. Smith, the
wellknown wholesale merchant of
Stockholm, TO recover 1920 kroner,