Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-08-01

ISOLATION held it's thirteenth annual
meeting at Copenhagen. One of the
subjects discussed was a proposition
to establish a legal load-line. The
speakers were strongly opposed to
such a measure on the ground that
it would destroy the Scandinavian
shipping trade. A resolution was
passed in favor of cooperation with
foreign shipowners' unions.
DENMARK.
President Loubet, after his return to
France, spoke in the most enthusiastic
terms about the hospitality and cordi-
ality of the people in Copenhagen, and
the only feature about the visit which
he did not enjoy was that he could
not stay much longer than he did.
A student was expelled from a
school at Haderslev, South Upland,
because by his "anti-German senti-
ment he had repeatedly wounded the
patriotic feelings of his comrades
most profoundly, and by the influence
which he exerted upon kindred minds
he jeopardized the discipline of the
school," The real trouble was that
the boy refused to cheer for Bis
marck as the benefactor of North Sles-
Wig.
A Greenland molder of public opin-
ion has gone to his rest. Lars Noel
Ter, the first journalist in Greenland.
is dead. He was a native Eskimo, and
ha hQ1orno r0toI oe n 1yo1,@l1@ ~1-o
Der of Nordenskiold's north pole ex-
petition. His was the work of a
pioneer indeed. When he started his
paper not a single one of his fellow
countrymen could read, and as a prac-
teal man he began by printing only
pictures. In the course of time he be-
gan to print letters and words, and
SO successful were Lars Moeller's eff
forts as a journalist that nearly all
his c%ountrymen could read when
death took their great teacher away
from them.
It is proposed to make a thorough
revision of the Latin school system,
and advantage will no doubt be taken
of the experience of Norwegian edu-
Gators since the storthing of Norway
gave such a great blow to the cIassi-
cal languages as a study.
SWEDEN.
Baron Won Otter, who has lust re-
signed as premier of Sweden, has en-
tered upon his 10th year, and his
family doctor has declared over his
own signature that the veteran states
mans health is feeble on account of
old age. He has been granted a PEN
sion for life.
Shortly before the great political
strike the employees at the govern
ment railway shops in Ostersund and
Bollnas were told that they would find
it very profitable to pay no attention
to the movement. They needed the
advice and remained at work during
the strike. Their reward has already
come. A few days ago they were in
formed that their wages would be
raised, the increase ranging from 3
to 8 cents a day.
The postmaster at Laxa has been
burning peet in a heating stove for
some length of time, the aim of the
experiment being to ascertain the ex-
act commercial value of this kind of
fuel. Taking hard wood as a basis
for his calculations, he found that
peat could not be used to advantage
unless it could be obtained at S4.46
a ton. The peat that he used for the
experiment had been bought at $2.70
a ton. But the charges for hauling it
to the place, by rail and wagon, raised
the price to $12.04. The peat was
found to be satisfactory as fuel in
every respect. 1t gave a steady and
comfortable heat, emitted no unpleas-
ant odor and did not seem to iniure
the stove in which it was burned.
A temporary.sanitarium for scrofu-
lous children has been opened at the
harbor of Engelholm, and a score of
children are being cared for at the
institution.
King Oscar sent a telegram of sym
pathy to Queen Alexandra on the oc-
casion of the dangerous sickness OF
King Edward VII.
A Swede wrote from Berlin one OF
the last days of June: "In the cafes
and along the central thoroughfares
of the city of Berlin one may hear
Swedish spoken so often that he may
suppose himself to be in his own
country. 1t is evident that Berlin has
come much closer to Sweden during
the last few years, so that Berlin, as
far as southern Sweden is concerned
is not much more distant than Copen.
hagen"