The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-11
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The Emperor Williams Act Of Friendships Warning to Rus
sia?-The Nobel Prizes Distributed

verses. He lost his fortune,-forgotten by
all and shattered in health, he has spent
long years in an asylum in Switzerland
until now he has been rescued from I'M
merited oblivion and has received fully
merited recognition by the award of the
Nobel prize
F. Passy is Frenchman by birth, an
extensive writer and prominent lecturer
on economic subjects, the founder and
president of the International Peace
League, the originator of the inter-par-
llamentary Peace and Arbitration League,
and the patriarch of the movement for
universal peace.
The public award of the great 'peace
PRICE," given to these two gentlemen,
took place Dec. 10 in the great hall Of
parliament, and was made the occasion
Of very impressive ceremonies witnessed
by invited guests, the members of par
lament, H. r. H. Prince Charles and con-
sort, Princess Ingeborg, with suite, the
Swedish minister for foreign affairs, mem
bers of the Norwegian government and the
members of the Nobel committee, the poet
Bjornstjerne Bjornson in the number.
Addresses were made by the speaker Of
the Norwegian parliament and by the
chairman of the Nobel committee. On the
same day at Stockholm, in the presence
OF the crown prince, Prince Eugene and
large and distinguished audience, the
four great prizes were publicly awarded
to the famous Professor W. X. Roentgen,
the discoverer of the x rays; T. H. Want
Hoff, professor of chemistry in the Uni
versity of Berlin, and Professor E. Beh-
ring of the University of Halle, the dis
coverer of the serum treatment of diph-
liberia. The literary prize was awarded
to M. Sully Prudhomme, a French poet of
some note-a choice which was met with
loud and universal surprise, and has al
DIV nall nrth i1o6i nj in,
some quarters.
Henceforth these awards of Nobel
prizes will be regular occurrence every
year, and will undoubtedly serve to slim
ulate scientific and literary activity all
over the world in no small degree, and
will also tend to turn the eyes of the CIV
ilized world upon the institutions of Swe-
den and Norway, to whom has been con-
fded by the noble founder the manage
ment of this great agency of progress.
Pageantry in Christiania.
The present month has seen a good deal
of pomp and pageantry in Christiania.
One Of the first days of the month King
Oscar, with the queen, Prince Charles,
Princess Ingeborg and large retinue
arrived and met with an enthusiastic re-
sception. The king is going to spend
Christmas in his Norwegian capital, and
in few days the royal family at present
mere Will De joined Dy the crown prince
and Prince Eugene. The UNIV &nted pres
ence of the court is, of courJ }, attended
with good deal of stir and hustle among
the upper tendon Of the capital; court
receptions and balls are given and mem
bers of the royal family attend high So
ciety functions, go shopping and mingle
quite freely with the common throng.
Royalty would have been much more
popular among the Norwegians if they
had had a chance of seeing more Of it in
times past. AS it is, the king has always
been stranger among his Norwegian
subjects, only paying short visits at long
intervals. Oscar is a noble old king and
always charms those who have chance
Of getting acquainted with him, and the
crown prince, who a few years ago was
quite universally detested in Norway, now,
is In a fair way of becoming a very popu-.
lar man. With all their intense democra
cy, the Norwegians are not necessarily
king haters; in fact, they can get along
amazingly with a king who has the knack
Of humoripg their little peculiartties The
royal VISIT this time has acquired addi-
tionaI luster from the visit Of a magnifi-
cent German feet of war vessels. dis,
patched by Emperor William to pay his