Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-26

SAoPS was given the OCneE evening at
Billesholm, Skane, and the net pro-
ceeds exceeded $500.
= DR.. Sven Hedin, the explorer of
Central Asia, will lecture in Copen-
hagen, st. Petersburg and number
of English cities during the latter
part of November.
NORWAY.
Oleomargarine is to be used instead
OF butter in the Norwegian army.
This means a saving of $4,000 a year
to the government.
About 1000 Kristiania school chill
dren are dined twice a week at the
expense of the city government.
Rev. Erling Gronland, who also is a
sculptos, has been engaged to exc
cute the medallion which is to adorn
the monument of Hans Nielsen
Hauge, the great Norwegian evange-
list of the early part of the nine
teenth century.
Over 100000 letters, or II per cent
OF the whole number of domestic let
tiers, were sent through the mails
free of charge during the past year.
Skredsvig's painting, "a Poem
About Death,'' is kept in the cellar
OF Our Saviour's church, Kristiania
1t was given to the church by the
painter, but it looks as though the
authorities will prevent it from being
put up in the church.
The Norway Curb company, a
combine comprising majority of the
stone dressing concerns in the coun-
try, has been dissolved.
There was fine sleighing in Hede-
marken as early as Oct. 20. Much of
the grain was still in the fields.
Erling KNAPP, one of the few Nor
wegians that fought on the side of
the English in the Boer war, distin-
guished himself on several occasions
and advanced to the position of COM
mander on Gen. Kitchener's staff.
About 1000 persons die from cancer
every year in Norway.
The receipts of the post office de-
partment for the past year were ST.
431,OOO, and the government expects
an increase of $4,000 for the coming
year.
H. J. Hiorth;~who served as sheriff
OF Aker for a period of 81 years, died
at the age of 94H years.
The increase of the deposits of the
savings banks of Norway for the past
year was a little over $14,000,OOO.
The farmers of Totem are going to
import 300 carloads of Indian corn for
their stock.
A seventeen-year-old girl at Faa-
seth, near Roros, was cutting chips
with Il big knife when the knife Slip
ped and severed an artery in her thigh
When the doctor arrived she had al
ready bled to death.
A new cigar factory has been start
ed at Solvarn, Sogn. The work is
done by experienced cigar-makers
from Kristiania. The filling of the
cigars consists exclusively of tobacco
raised in Norway.
Recent showers of damp snow did
great damage to the apple trees of
southern Norway. Only part of the
apples had been picked, and the
leaves had not dropped off. Piles of
heavy snow on top of the apples and
the leaves was too much of a load,
and in many instances the branches
snapped clean off.
The constitutional committee is in
favor of giving Hangesund seat in
the storthing, and South Trondhjem
and Smaalenene expect one additional
seat for each.
Lasse Tradal, member of the stor-
thing, and Prof. Gjelsvik received $1o0
for translating the poor laws from
the common Norwegian-Danish into
NorwegianNorwegian. The laws in
question cover only one sheet in the
official publication. Strange as it
may seem, the original is well under
stood by every grown Norwegian,
while tens of thousands of grown
Norwegians will strike many linguis-
tic difficulties in the Norwegian-Nor-
wegian version. The latter was got
ten up for the benefit of the common
people!
These are the words that Kaiser
Wilhelm wired to Capt. Otto Sverd-
rup upon the return of the latter
from the Arctic seas: "From a full
seaman's heart, greetings and a
welcome home. Thanks to God with
you, because He happily carried you,
your ship and your crew back to your
people,
This is the climax of the eulogy
which Sir Clemens Markham, the
president of the British Geographical
society, passed upon Sverdrup's ex-
petition: |'Perhaps we should not
say so, but it is a fact, nevertheless,
that Sverdrup has excelled Kane,
Hayes, Hall, Greeley and Baldwin
combined"
The engineers at the navy yards
are engaged in designing new type
of armored cruisers for defending the
coast. Their ordinance will be very
heavy in proportio" to the vessels
and each vessel will cost about $780,,
OOO
The Liberals are inclined to wig.
gle out of the ante-election position
taken by them in favor of a universal
life insurance law.
The estimated expenditures for the
| army for the coming year aggregate
| $3,624, 480, which is $4,000 below the
expenditures for the, current year.
The percentage of crimes increased
at an alarming rate from 1895 to 1899
but since the latter year there is g
steady decrease. The years fS95-1S9!
were known as typically "good times