Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-05

and her husband are making a tour
OF Sweden for the purpose of raising
money for the home, and they are re-
ceiving responses in a substantial
way.
DENMARK.
On Oct. % the landsthing voted on
the sale OF the Danish West Indies to
the United States. There was a tie,
~ standing against 80.
Copenhagen business men have
commenced to raise funds for the aid
OF the farmers of Norrland, Sweden.
VINO lost their crops last summer.
Five Of the leading publishers of
copenhagen have sent their cata-
logues to the Scandinavian library in
Paris, and the managers of the library
nave been permitted to make a selec-
ton OF books free of charge.
The treaty regarding the transfer
OF the Danish West Indies to the
United States is still trembling in the
balance.
The government has ordered from
the Essen works, Germany, 1913 Krupp
field guns and 1872 ammunition
wagons.
A supposed leper at Ronbjerg is
only afflicted with cancerous skin
disease.
A new parish has been organized in
copenhagen. 1t is called Citadel
parish, and its church is the Citadel
church.
The budget presented to the rigs
dag by the cabinet calls for an ex-
penditure of $40, 1O9, 1860.
Empress Dowager Dagmar is still
stopping at the Danish court.
Politiken, the responsible mouth
piece of the present cabinet, asserts
with emphasis that the cabinet will
strive to be on good terms with the
German empire. 'As to the welfare
OF Denmark" the. paper says, "peace
with Germany is vital necessity"
Princess Marie has gone to France
to visit her relatives.
King George of Greece has return
ed home.
There are at least two ladies in
Copenhagen who wear male attire
whenever they appear on the street.
And there is no trouble because the
people are getting used to the sight.
Snow fell in Upland in the early
part of October.
The joint committee appointed to
formulate common commercial laws
for the Scandinavian countries has
closed its executive session for this
year, which was held in Copenhagen.
Three members will edit the work
In November, and the whole commit
tee will reconvene at Kristiania in
March, 1903.
Dirt cheap. A contributor to Yer
dens Gang writes as follows about
toothache: ''Rinse the mouth with
cold water, spit it out and take a new
mouthful as soon as the water gets
warm and the tooth begins to ache. If
the tooth is hollow, cleanse it as
well as possible by filing it with
clean cotton and changing this. Keep
the aching part of the head will
wrapped up. If the tooth becomes
somewhat insensible after half an
hours cleansing, fill it with clean cot
ton. If the tooth again begins to
ache resume the rinsing. and change
the cotton time and again. So far
never failed to stop the pain by this
treatment. Before I tried this method
employed all remedies that knew
of, but in vain.''
Bjornson was bound. to get mixed
up in the Fasting affair. DR.. Fasting,
the principal of the Holmestrand nor
NAL school, is known as a man of de-
cidedly liberal views in religious mat
ters, and for this reason the clergy
and the ecclesiastical department. have
given him some trouble. Biornson,
though 70 years old, works himself in
to fiery fury, scourging the attitude
of the state church in Berserk style.
Here is a sample OF, his diction:
'Good people, imagine these infant
souls from Jarlsberg, who believe that
the Lutheran theology is studied even
in heaven, so. that even up there the
candidates are examined in the
catechism, and that they, if they do
not pass, tumble plumb down into
hell. He next goes through the usual
diatribe about the first part of Gene
sis being an Indian Legend etc."
Verdens Gang claims that Norweg-
ian capitalists are so slow about in
vesting money in the vast iron ore
fields in the extreme north because
they are afraid that organized labor
might cripple the enterprises.
DR.. George Fasting, the principal of
the normal school Of Holmestrand,
has been troubled by the clergy be-
cause he is said to be a little off in
religious matters, and some of them
insist that he should not be permit
ed to give instruction in religion. He
is willing to- exchange his religious
branches for Norwegian, and this
change may lead to a patching-up of
the difficulty.
The short summer season of the
year 1902 passed over. northern Nor
way like DREAM" and nine-month
winter was started in dead earnest
about the twentieth of September.
About 200 soldiers persisted last
year in a snow-storm at Hokkaido,
Japan. This led Consul General Of
tesen to send some samples Of Nor
wegian skis to the Japanese minister
4 Of war, and a specia. military COM
1mnittee has peen appointed to report
On the advisability Of introducing
Norwegian skis in the army of Japan.
avChe Norwegian ski-makers are great