Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-09-10

H.
the month of July the board of health
paid out SOS for the scalps Of 2,464
rats.
The new railway line from Boden
to Yttermorjarv has been formally
opened for public traffic.
NORWAY.
Two committees have reported on
proposition of introducing a universal
pension system covering all classes of
citizens. one committee having been
elected by the storthing, the other be-
ing made up of functionaries of the
government. The former committee
holds that the running expenses of a
universal pension system would be
$135,OO0 a year, while the latter puts
the expenses at no less than $64S,000
a year. The discrepancy is so great
that conservative citizens are alienat-
oragnize national union.
August 5th, the one-hundredth an
niversary of the birthday of Prof.
Abel, the greatest mathematician of
the Scandinavian countries, was cele-
brated by three hundred persons at
his grave, which is located at Froland,
not far from Arendal. Prof. Bjerk-
mes made an address on the great
work accomplished by Prof. Abel, who
died at the early age of twenty-seven
years. A far more ostentatious cele-
bration will take place in connection
of fo11
at the university. Many foreign So
cieties and institutions of learning
will be represented on this occasion.
Orebladet claims that there are too
many professional men in Norway.
In Kristiania, for instance, there are
three hundred lawyers who are doing
business on their own account, and
the proportion is practically the same
throughout the whole country. There
are $50 practicing physicians in the
city mentioned above.
The Khedive of Egypt is said to
have visited Trondh,j em. He travelled
incognito through Europe, and his
identity was not discovered until he
came to Norway.
There has been trouble between
Norwegian and Swedish fishermen at
the boundary line in Idefjord. FISH
ermen are in the habit of clashing at
this place every few years.
The grand lodge of the T. O. q. T. of
Bergen. The lodge had 22,52S grown
members and 1897 members of juve-
nile lodges, or total of 1882 men,
bers. The increase for the year was
1876 members. The grand lodge pass
ed resolution against using Good
Templar halls for dances.
A Dane who has seen large part
of the northern hemisphere made an
extended tour of Norway few weeks
ago. This tour led him to say many
interesting things, few of which are
mentioned below: ''The agricultural
pursuits ought to support two or
three times the population of Norway.
A Dane is kept in a state of constant
establishment to see how much of the
land is lying idle. There are thou
sands of square kilometers of land in
Norway which are better suited for
agriculture than the Danish heather.
1t would be well for the government
of Norway to send few hundred
tenant farmers down to Denmark ev-
cry year to let them see the Upland
heather farmers successful war
against the arid sand-dunes and the
singeing west winds. May be they
would discover that there really is
something to do in Norway. The Nor
wegians have altogether too much
land. Their consciences do not scream
at the sight of idle ground as do those
of the Danes. 1t would be good for
them to come to country where an
unused spot of ground is looked upon
almost as a scandal to the neighbour
hood
Mr.. Baldwin. who was to capture
the North Pole for Mr.. Ziegler of New
York, must have had considerable
trouble with the crew of the America.
In fact both Captain Johansson and
the crew declared at Tromso, Aug. 4,
that they would not leave the ship
until the Norwegian authorities have
made inquiries into the quarrels on
board the vessel. Mr.. Baldwin dis
charged Mr.. Johansson as captain
May 26 and took away his gun. The
winter quarters of the expedition
were at 800 22' north, and Mr.. Bald
win positively refused to go farther
north.
Large quantities of shrimps have
been discovered on new grounds near
Stavanger. From ten to twelve gall
Ions were caught in a trawl at each
haul.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Steamship
company has ordered two special
steamers for carrying iron ore from
Narvi]l to the Rhine countries. The
shipping of ore will begin next year.
In the course of time six other steam
ers of 5000 to 10000 tons will be add
ed.
Prof. Bi7lzeland, while on his wav
to the Arctic regions, was bitten by a
dog in Archangel, Russia. Cases of
hydrophobia having recently occurred
among the dogs of. that city, Prof.
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