Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-09

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The Russian government is bent, on
the Development OF. the butter export
trade, and Siberia is expected to eK.
port twice as much butter this yea1
as last year. The Swedish and Dan.
Ssh exporters Of dairy products are
realizing that Siberia is on the point
of becoming a formidable competitor
Almost $4,000 has been raised for 9
to the late Lars Hjerta, 8
noted journalist.
The South Sweden Banking com.
pany has procured a monopoly ON the
right to carry on business by means
of so-ealled home banks. A home
bank issasbox kept at q residence for
the deposit Of small amounts OF
money from time to time. A person
representing the banking company
keeps the key to the box and takes its
contents to the bank on certain dates
It is supposed that this method will
be the means of saving q good deal
Of money which otherwise would be
squandered.
10 - "a " " LIZ o by =
editorial on the occasion Of the recent
visit Of King Oscar to Paris, empha'
sizing his French extraction and com.
mentingvs on his fondness for Bearn
the old home Of the Bernadotte fam
lily.
Mass meetings in favor Of universal
suffrage waEs:AH;i bid in all the towns OF
Swyee::: $$:#$ #3$ Hill ::;# M; Stockholm the meeting
was $*;i:; #;:; :;*:3 i#iEith considerable dis
4orsde :#ii::#:;: demonstrators tried tc
mar, ;# i#%; ;: "a; ;i###;alace Of King Oscar.
They; Hill: #:: %#::i## ;iNiyed by the police and
sewers XIII i: ;#a:#;Fwere wounded. 9th.
ers v..*: #;H ;::H ;:i; #;:;iI.
hi; :::%: #:*::;:;:#;: ;;I;##@;a of an Ostgota wha-
over ;i;;## i:#:$#! '$%Hsspy -er position and
told 1::::IHaa.:i; VI: size would have to leave
him. Persuaded her to stay a lit.
tie longer, however. But one day he
j brought four. gallons Of whiskey into
the house, and she told him that she
would depart at once and for good.
Now both the widower and his chill.
dren besieged the girl with their en-.
treaties that she should stay, and she
yielded once more, but on condition
that he should pour his whiskey into
the gutter, and himself join the Blue
Ribboners. In this peculiar battle be
tween the girl and the whiskey tn.
former carried the day. The widowel
signed the pledge; the girl poured thu
whiskey into the gutter; and last bu'
not least, q short time ago the tws
were united in Hymen's bonds.
A farmer in the parish of Gard
SHANE, whose servants were choppint
woed forSthe coming season, though:
he observed that the wood piles wer,
lower in the morning than in til.
evening. Actual measurements prov
ed that one pile Of wood shrank full:
ten inches in the course of q singl
night, and the servants were ordere
to be on guard during the next nigh
But as they did not enjoy the idea G
losing a nights sleep they hit upo
"a notion that never had occurred t
their employer: They bored hole
into a o of sticks Of wood, loade
them with gunpowder and scattere
them on the top Of the wood-pfles.
few evenings later q number ct youn
people were invited to the house {
q tenant farmer in the neighborhoo'
They had a right Jolly time Of It, an
the serving Of coffee and other r
freshments was to he an importer
part of the program. AS the fu
used did not seem to send the beVe
age up to the boiling point quite fa.
enough the LADY Of the house fetche
a few sticks Of beech wood ana psace
them under the pot But that SOC
spoiled the fun. A few moments lat.
a terrific explosion from the ire-plaa
sent the coffee pot and it's contents U
against the ceiling, scattered ash
and fre-brands in all directions ar
shook the very foundations Of II
building. But the wood-piles of Il
farmer first mentioned do not shrir
any more Of nights.
In view Of the fact that potatoes
not yield such large crops in Swed,
as in other countries, the academy
agriculture has asked for an apr
priation of $e7O for making expel
ments in the line of raising potatot
The stockholders of the Gelliva
mining company have resolved
offer their property for sale to t
state.
Ola Manson Of Vranarp, near stl
rishamn, happened to. squirt SOL
juice from partly decayed todd
beet into his eye, and though he b
TEWyIoo x~no%nl hu4 $ruoE ,10o+o~o Fho M
be permanently blind in that eye.