Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-05-14
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS In THE FAIHERLAND,
Principal Events That Have Occurred
in the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
Or So Just Past.

North Sea Within Week
OF So Just Past.
A military authority who writes for
the Kristiania Orebladet has revived
the old plan of joint Swedish-Norwe-
gian maneuvers in the northern part
of the peninsula. The writer main
tains that the general staffs of the
two countries ought to cooperate by
means of combined movements in the
territory traversed by the Transporting
sular railway running from Boden,
Sweden, to Ofoten, Norway. The
strategic importance of this region is
SO great that the military authorities
of both countries ought to be thor
oughly familiar with it's advantages
and disadvantages. The writer would
like to see the operations begun in
the course of the present year.
A very large number of young men
have left Simrishamn and vicinity,
their place Of destination being Amer
lea.
The Russian government is bent on
the development of the butter export
trade, and Siberia is expected to ex-
port twice as much butter this year
as last year. The Swedish and DAN
ish exporters of dairy products are
realizing that Siberia is on the point
of becoming a formidable competitor.
Almost $4,000 has been raised for a
monument to the late Lars Hjerta, q
noted journalist.
The South Sweden Banking COM
pany has procured a monopoly on the
right to carry on business by means
of so-called home banks. A home
bank is a box kept at a residence for
the deposit of small amounts of
money from time to time. A person
representing the banking company
keeps the key to the box and takes it's
contents to the bank on certain dates.
1t is supposed that this method will
be the means of saving good deal
of money which otherwise would be
squandered.
lie Figaro contained a sympathetic
editorial on the occasion of the recent
visit of King Oscar to Paris, empha-
sizing his French extraction and COM
menting on his fondness for Bearn,
the old home of the Bernadotte fam
lily.
Mass meetings in favor of universal
suffrage were held in all the towns or
Sweden. In Stockholm the meeting
was attended with considerable dis
| order. The demonstrators tried to
march to the palace of King Oscar.
They were charged by the police and
several of them were wounded. 9th
ers were arrested.
The servant girl of an Ostgota wlu-
over did not enjoy --er position and
told him that she would have to leave
him. Persuaded her. to stay lit
tie longer, however. But one day he
brought four, gallons of whiskey into
the house, and she told him that she
would depart at once and for good.
Now both the widower and his chill
dren besieged the girl with their en-
treaties that she should stay, and she
y AS1OSu O1NO AAOASS OuO oAA NoIu1IAoA
that he should pour his whiskey into
the gutter, and himself join the Blue
Ribboners. In this peculiar battle be-
tween the girl and the whiskey the
former carried the day. The widower
signed the pledge; the girl poured the
| whisley into the gutter; and last but
not least, a short time ago the two
were united in Hymen's bonds.
A farmer in the parish of Gard,
Skane, whose servants were chopping
wood for the coming season, thought
he observed that the wood piles were
lower in the morning than in the
evening. Actual measurements prov
ed that one pile of wood shrank fully
ten inches in the course of a single
night, and the servants were ordered
to be on guard during the next night.
But as they did not enjoy the idea of
losing a nights sleep they hit upon
notion that never had occurred to
their employer: They bored holes
into a score of sticks of wood, loaded
them with gunpowder and scattered
them on the top of the wood-piles. A
few evenings later a number of young
people were invited to the house of
tenant farmer in the neighborhood.
They had a right Jolly time Of it, and
the serving of coffee and other re-
freshments was to be an important
part Of the program. As the fuel
used did not seem to send the bever-
age up to the boiling point quite fast
enough the lady of the house fetched
them under the pot. But that soon
spoiled the fun. A few moments later
terrific explosion from the fireplace
sent the coffee pot and it's contents up
against the ceiling, scattered ashes
and e-brands in all directions and
shook the very foundations of the
building. But the wood-piles of the
farmer first mentioned do not shrink
any more of nights.
In view of the fact that potatoes do
not yield such large crops in Sweden
as in other countries, the academy of
agriculture has asked for an appro-
priation of $27O for making expert
ments in the line of raising potatoes.
The stockholders of the Gellivare
mining company have resolved to
offer their property for sale to the
state.
Ola Manson of Vranarp, near SIM
rishamn, happened to squirt some
juice from a partly decayed fodder
beet into his eye,. and though he has
been treated by two doctors he will
be permanently blind in that eye.
Hair-pulling watch. N. A. Lidbom