Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-08-13
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS In THE FAIHERLAND.
principal Events That Have Occurred
IN the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.

1EA0c1pa1 Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.
SO far the CONSUMPTION laws impos-
ed upon Finland have been an I'M
qualified failure, only small per-
centage of the fresh recruits having
obeyed the summons to report for
examination.
~ new Swedish daily will soon be
established in Helsingfors.
Governor General Bobnikoff has in
spected the lighthouses at Kvarken,
the narrow channel leading into the
northern portion of the Gulf of Both
mia. The Swedes are afraid that Rus
STA may intend to build Notifications
at this point.
DENMARK.
DIR. George Brandes, the great in
tellectual colossus of Scandinavia,
cannot believe in personal God be-
cause such conception is illogical.
10 this. Prof. ]. p. Kristensen-R RAN
ders, of the Ollerup peoples high
school, makes the remark that some
men have believed in living, person.
al God though they were supposed to
be fairly we'll equipped intellectually,
and of such men he mentions V. Ryd-
berg, S. Kierkegaard, Kant, Newton
and Socrates.
lady who was about to board an
electric street car in Copenhagen
slipped and fell down. But in the
fail one of her feet was caught in the
steps, and she was dragged along the
street for a considerable distance.
When the car stopped she was ex-
pected to be badly injured, if not
killed. But to the surprise of the
spectators she had not received even
a scratch worth mentioning.
Every eighth person in Iceland is
a good templar.
Three of the largest match manu-
featuring companies of Copenhagen
have been merged into one concern
ito cut down the running expenses
and to avoid destructive COMPETE
ton"
A twelve-foot spiral track runs up
the Round Tower in Copenhagen to
a height of ninety feet. A few morn
ings ago three men rode up the entire
distance in an automobile and back
again. This reminds us of the his
toric fact that Peter the Great of
Russia made the same trip in a wag-
on drawn by four horses in the year
1716.
A nation in arms. The growth of
the membership of the volunteer rifle
clubs is truly enormous. The clubs
had 92,793 members at the beginning
of this year, and considerably more
than one-half of them joined the
movement in 1901. The government
has just appropriated $1,000 for
grounds for target practice in differ
ent parts of the country.
The Skane "sugar barons'' have
managed to keep the price of sugar
so high that this commodity, for the
first time in fifteen years, has been
imported in considera BILE quantities.
Those cracks in the walls of the
new riksdag building. The much
discussed cracks in the new riksdag
building have been carefully exam
ined by three experts appointed by
the building committee, and their re-
port is public property. The cracks
are by no means serious, and they
are not due to an uneven settling of
the foundation. They may have been
caused by an uneven temperature in
different parts of the immense struc-
ture, and the committee holds that
there is no reason for anxiety as to
the so]idity of the walls.
And so Uncle Sam gets them. The
consul general of Sweden and Nor
way at Valparaiso warns his country
men against coming to Chile, South
America. The government is honest
ly endeavoring to aid Scandinavian
emigrants, but the officials whose du-
ty it is to effectuate it's policy care
more for their own interests than for
those of foreign emigrants. Indirect
ly, this warning swells the current of
emigrants to the United States.
A fire destroyed sixteen residences
and outhouses and damaged five 9th
ers in Leksand's Noret, near Falun.
The fruit trees in Vestergotland
have been stripped of their leaves by
worms, and in some localities even the
trees in the parks have been attacked
by the pest. The berry bushes have
generally been spared.
Lovisa Charlotte Kokeritz, the old
est inhabitant of Westerns, completed
her 102d year June 30. Her mental
as well as physical powers are in a
comparatively vigorous condition.
The ecclesiastical authorities of
Gothenburg have resolved to erect a
new church building in that part of
the city which is known as Vasasta-
den. The style is to be romanesque,
and the estimated cost is about $685.
900.
The first division of the army will
be engaged in series of movements
on both sides of the boundary line
of the provinces of Malmohus and
Kristianstad, beginning July "a and
closing Aug. 2. All of the different
arms will be represented at the man.
euvers.
The crown prince attended review
of the Indian troops in London, which
presented magnificent spectacle.
The crown prince wore Norwegian
generals uniform on the occasion.
The Hoganes Coal Mining company
has declared dividend of per cent
for the past year. :.~~-....