Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-01-20

Lu0mO6rS OF the royal houses OF Den
mark and Sweden and Norway and
was a great favorite Dr. Read re-
fused to accept titles and decorations
and retained his American citizenship
in foreign lands for over forty years.
bounding the Finnish Clergy.
Bobrikoff, the despot who is govern
or general of Finland, demands that
the clergymen who refused to read the
new Finnish military law be prescott
ed. That they will be severely
punished goes without saying, and
many will doubtless be removed un-
less they resign.
Not on the Program.
One of the features of the unwilling
of the statue to Magnus Stenbock at
Stockholm was very amusing when
the Countesses Stenbock mad Won
Schlieffen pulled the cords to release
the drapery and it failed to fall Two
men mounted the statue under the
drapery to mend the fault and when
it was fially released the men found
themselves CONSPICUOUS parts of the
group. They clambered down amid
great laughter.
Wanted for Swedish Railways.
ways of Sweden has submitted to the
king a proposition to appropriate s.
100000 kroner for the,purchase of new
rolling stock The estimates include
thirty-four locomotives and 300 freight
cars, as we'll as thirty passenger
coaches and other stock
Learning Old Morse.
Professor Tinglestad, recently ap-
pointed to the chair or Scandinavian
languages at the University of North
Dakota, is in Copenhagen studying old
Morse and other branches connected
with his department
Authority on Leprosy.
"A recent number of the British Med
ical Journal contains a lengthy bio
graphical sketch of DR.. G. H. A. Han
son, by DR.. H. p. Lee. DR.. Hanson
has achieved a worldwide fame in the
medical world by his attention to
leprosy and it's contagious character
Since 1868, when he was appointed
assistant physician at the Bergen
leprosy hospital, he has devoted him
self to the work. He has written
many interesting and valuable treats
es, beginning with one in 1869, when
he was but % years old His dis
covery of the bacillus of leprosy was
made in 1873, or ten years before DR..
Knah 6icnnunrnd 10 hoa 0f AL,
culosis.
NorWay's Wealth.
From the statistical bureau at
Christiania it is learned that the tax
able property of Norway is placed at
2,097, 800,739, considerably over half
being found in the country The rich
est city is, of course, Christiania, fol
lowed by Bergen, Trondhjem Dram
men and Stavanger in the order
named. The richest province or
country is Akershus and the poorest
is Finmarken.
NOTES.
Stockholm will soon have it's tenth
theater. Folkets' Hus is being re-
modelled into a theater which will seat
about 1000 persons.
Ibsen's Peer Gynt was performed at
the theater de POeuvre, Paris, Dec
1920, but with what success it has
not been announced.
Word has been received in Gothic
borg, Sweden, that Frederick Toy of
that city has been condemned and
shot as a rebel by the British at Coles
burg, south Africa.
The Norwegian storthing is discuss
ing law for the restriction of debate.
The members are not very enthus-
iastic over the measure as unrestrict-
ed debate suits them.
The exports from the custom dis
trict of Christiania, Norway, to the
United States for the year 1901 ag-
gregated 100000, the principal items
being wood pulp and cod liver OIL
Colonel Hans A. G. A. Panther
helm, superintendent Of the Swedish
military academy is dead, at the age
of As years. He was recognized as,
one of the ablest military men in the
country.
The grand prize of $4,000 kroner i'm
the Northern museum was won by a,
farmers son, who lives near Norberg
in Vestmannland. He says that he
will buy an estate with his fortune.
A massive granite block over twelve
feet high will be raised on the grave.
of Arthur Hazelius, founder of Skan-
sen, the most wonderful outdoor mu-
scum in the world and the Northern
museum.
Miss Beata Frunck, Stockholm's
Oldest inhabitant, died recently at the
age of 101 years. Mrs Sofia Selander
born Nov. s, 1902, succeeds to the
honor which venerable Miss Frunck
has relinquished.
Princess Karadja, the leader of the
spiritualistic cult in Sweden, has been