Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-09-10
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAND.
principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
DENMARK.

DENN1A1SAs
On Sunday, Aug. 3, the street rail-
ways of Copenhagen carried over $780,
600 passengers, and the receipts were
SASH.
Three hundred liberal citizens have
signed call for subscriptions to-
wards erecting monument to Viggo
Horup, the late minister of public
traffic.
j. P. lie Sagede Fontenay. who serv-
ed in the department of finance from
ls4l to 1895, died at the age of SO
years.
y. Hesselbom is the name of a
Swede who has suddenly acquired
worldwide fame as a painter. He is
a native of Dalsland, and was engage
Ell in painting houses, etc, until thir-
ty years old. Since that time his
life has been one of great privation
Tor the sake of his art, and the world
paid absolutely no attention to his
productions until he was over fifty
years old. One of his paintings won a
prize in Paris in 1900, and since thai
event his progress on the way to
fame has been rapid. At recent art
exhibition at Karlsruhe the art critics
were practically unanimous in prais-
ing his paintings. Thus. it happened
that Hasselbom became famous
abroad before he was known at home.
The oldest known smelling furnace
In Sweden, perhaps in the whole of
Scandinavia, is no doubt the one re-
Gently discovered by Prof. Montelius
at Bjarsgarden, near Klippan, Skane.
The furnace, in which iron ore evil
IDENTIFY had been reduced, dates from
the iron age. Prof. Montelius also
dug out tomb at the same place.
1t antedated the birth of Christ about
one thousand years and contained a
number of objects of bronze and an
oak coffin filled with bones.
S. Stenberg of Lammakulla, Agun-
naryd parish. who recently died at
the age of seventy-one years. was
completely blind during the last forty
years of his life. But in spite Of
this great drawback he ran success
full business of his own. He knew
his customers by their voices. and his
sense of touch became so highly de-
veloped that he could tell the value
of different coins with the greatest
ease. More than one stranger was
astonished to see him walking about
in his store and waiting on his GUS
toners as promptly as a man who
enjoys a perfect eye-sight. Mr.. STEM
berg had tenacious memory and a
quick perception, which enabled him
to remember and utilize whatever he
heard from conversation, newspapers
and books.
a ship which took in a cargo at
Halmstad leaked so badly that it
sank before leaving the harbor.
The newspapermen of southern
Sweden made pleasure trip to Sass
nitz, Germany, Aug. 10.
The government has set aside $27O
for the publication of an essay on
farmers cooperative unions, the OBJ
ject being to encourage such organ
izations.
The king has granted the Jewish
congregation of Malmo permission
to buy a site for new synagogue
on Foreningsgatan.
A hailstorm did considerable dana
age to the crops around Vexio. Some
of the hailstones were as large as
hens eggs. Over one hundred win
dow lights were broken in the Thor
sas church.
1t is stated that no English capital
will be invested in the East Coast
railway until at least S1,50O,O0O, Or
one-third of the estimated cost, has
been subscribed by Swedish capital
lists.
Rev. Freden of the Augustana sy-
nod is engaged in detecting metallic
ores in different parts of the country
by means of copper wire formed
into a bow and held between his
hands.
The fines paid by fresh recruits for
failure to comply with the conscrip-
ton laws amount to $4,000 year,
and they are added to the fund for the
aid of invalid conscripts, which fund
has almost reached the one million
dollar mark.
A strange mirage was recently OBJ
served at Laholm. Its main feature
were two volcanoes in activity, the
columns of smoke rising from them
being clearly delineated against the
sky. The phenomenon was visible for
half an hour.
The poor board of Stockholm fur
nishes poor school children with
wooden shoes. The cooperative union
requested the board to let such chill
dren have leather shoes; but the
board answered that wooden shoes
were both healthier and cheaper, and
that no change will be made.
The Gefe glass works will soon be
turning out bottles made of waste
matter from the Sala silver mines.
There are several thousand car loads
of this stuff, and all of it has been
bought by the proprietors of the
glass works for $4,000. .>
Extraordinary difficulties are i'm
peding the work on the Gellivare and
Ofoten railway on the mountain ridge
separating Sweden and Norway. A
crew of snow shovelers is kept busy
in front of the crew putting down the
rails and when the track is finished
the. snow banks on either side are
twelve feet high in some places.
Two architects and one engineer all
of them knowing their business, have
reported that the piling under the
foundation of the Gothenburg cathe-