Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-02-20

manufacturers, with the title of "Pur-
veyors to the Court of the Emperor of
/ Russia"
A sailing vessel bound for England
kept cruising in the North sea for
about a month on account of being
unable to affect a, landing at the place
! of destination. 1t was supposed to be
lost when it suddenly appeared off
Mandal, Norway, after having been
close up to the coast Of England
twice.
The electric railway in Trondhiem
was financial success from the very
start. The estimated receipts were
about cents per @kilometer travelled
by each car, but the actual receipts
for the first month We're almost 10
cents a day per kilometer. The plant
is giving daily surplus of about $40.
The odelsthing has passed bill
which aims at decreasing cruelty to
animals. The new measure also abol-
ishes the exception hitherto made in
favor of vivisection. Henceforth only
the king, in council, can give per-
mission for scientific experiments on
animals
It is not true that the American
steel trust has acquired control of the
Cumberland iron range through the
Edison syndicate, which bought the
Cumberland syndicate fields.
Prof. c. M. Guldberg is dead. He
| 10 hoo1,c~
matics, and he enriched the science of
chemistry by establishing the fact
] that chemical forces can be calculated
/ mathematically.
Bergens Tidende, in a lengthy edi-
torial, peremptorily demands the res
ignation of Premier steen because he
is no longer able to fill his position in
satisfactory manner.
A passenger train was shut up in
tunnel between Voss and Vaksdal,
snowslides occurring at both ends of
the tunnel at the same time. The
train had to remain in the tunnel over
night. Some of the passengers spent
the night on the train, others crawled
out and walked to Vaksdal.
Elias Blk, professor of Hebrew at
the university of Norway, is dead. He
was born in 1868, and served as min
lister of public worship in the Sver-
drup cabinet, from 1884 to 1888.
The total business of the Central
Bank for Norway was about $2sO,0OO,-
900 in 1901.
SWEDEN.
A number of teachers of physical
culture have requested the govern
ment to adopt measures for the adj
vancement of the cause of physical
culture in the public schools. The pc
titioners admit that the movement
ought to have been started among the
people, but the people aer too slow to
grasp the Importance of proper ply
steal training.
The Russian government has placed
tariff on sailed or picked herring,
while fresh herring is admitted free
A Russian importer is taking advan-l
tage of this difference in a new way.
At Stromstad, for instance, he scat
tered the herring that he bought on
the ice and left them there until they
froze solid. Then he packed them in
boxes and shipped them to Russia,
where, it is claimed, that he gets
from IL to IA cents a piece for them.
Two Russian saw flers were appre-
hended by the sheriff of Varmdon,
tried and ordered to leave the coun-
try. They left for Russia with the
next steamer.
A seven-month-old elk has been
4 trained to pull a sled at Sveg, skane,
and he can easily convey load Of
three men with a speed equal to that
of swift horse. 70
A committee appointed last year in
the interest of temperance has pro-
posed that the maximum proportion
of alcohol in liquors sold for bever-
age purposes be put at 40 per cent,
and that the practice of sending
liquor peddlers through the rural dis
tricts be stopped.
Adolf Heden, the veteran rigsdag-
man from Stockholm, paid a touching
tribute to the memory of the late
Sofus Hogsbro, the Danish statesman.
''Hogsbro," he said, believed in JUS
tice though he lived in an age of vio-
lence."
When well was bored near Fa-
i geras, Varmland, a vein of solid coal
was struck. Behring'S made in the vi
cinity demonstrated that the coal bed
extends over an area of several square
miles. The coal formation is covered
by forty-foot layer Of clay. The
thickness of the coal formation has
j not been ascertained.