Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-01-31

dlfeu 1IS grievance dBdluSI Iue sugar
manufacturers and the railways by
passing a series of resolutions.
Half a dozen prominent men in
Stockholm have issued a call for the
organization of a society for the pur-
pose of advocating the principle Of
proportional representation.
Axel Key, former professor Of path
illogical anatomy at the Karolinska
Institut, Stockholm, is dead. He was
an international authority on the an
atomy of the nerves and the tissues,
and a member of a large number of
learned societies.
The peole's house in Stockholm
was dedicated with great eclat Dec.
%. Hjalmar Branting, the social dem
ocratic journalist, made the dedica-
tory address. The peoples house, he
said was not an aim but a means of
improving the condition of the work
ingmen. The papers mention no
cheers for the king.
The Blue Ribboners have had sew
eral representatives in the second
chamber of the riksdag, and the first
representative in the first chamber
will be Won Mentzer, of Jonkoping.
It is feared that the winter rye may
rot in the valleys and on low ground
in southern Sweden. The growth was
exceptionally luxuriant last fall.
There was a heavy fall of snow be
fore the ground froze, and beneath
the covering formed by the snow and
the rye straw the roots are very apt
to rot.
Governor Kronlund, Of Haparanda,
is preparing a bill which he intends
to introduce at the next riksdag for
the purpose of having the state as
sumo full control Of the building of
public roads. At present the state
contributes two-thirds of the money
spent for public roads.
August Rohss, a rich wholesale
merchant has donated $4,000 to the
city of Gothenburg for the encourage
ment of manual training.
Labor troubles are impending in the
stone quarries of Blekinge. The labor
unions have notified the operators
that after February first they will not
be bound by the scale of wages agreed
upon last spring. The seriousness of
the situation may be inferred from
the fact that the employees ask for a
raise of 20 per cent, while the en-
ployers are contemplating a reduc-
ton.
NORWAY.
Baron Lagerheim, Swedish minister
of foreign affairs, proposed to the
Norwegian cabinet last fall that a
committee consisting of two Norwe-
gians and two Swedes be appointed to
consider the question of establishing
separate consular services for the two
countries. The negotiations resulting
from this proposition brought out a
difference of opinion in regard to the
scope of the work of the committee.
The Norwegians prefer a complete.
independent service for Norway, while
the Swedes r in favor of two sets
of consuls serving under a common
head. This difficulty blocked the
work from the very start. "This diff.
fculty," says Verdens Gang, Unjust be
overcome. The intention of both par
ties must be. of course, to start the
work on a basis of mutual agreement
and to include all phases touched up
on in the discussion. We are told
too, that it is hoped that in the neal
future the negotiations will lead tc
the appointment of such a committee
Such a contamination will surely be
received with great satisfaction il
both countries. But to us Norwegians
it must be a matter of regret that q
lack of energy and of a definite policy
on the part of the Norwegian govern
ment% to take the first step instead
of our cabinet doing so long ago.. II
that case the union committee could
have completed its work by the time
it is actually begun"
Albert Langen, a German publish
er and a son-in-law of Biornstjern'
Bjornson, has spent almost a yea
with his grandparents in Norway. H
returned to Paris by way of Antwerp
A number of years ago he published
a poem in Simplissimus, on account O
which he was accused of lese majest'
against Kaiser Wilhelm. He left tn,
country, and since that time he ha!
never dared to put his fot on Ger
man soil. The matter is not permit
ted to drop. Once a year the charge
is renewed. sometimes in obscure vii
lagos for the purpose of fooling Mr.
Langan. But he and his friends ar,
on the lookout, and the German pc
lice force is watching for his return
in vain.
The first public bath opened by tn
city government of Kristiana date
from 1862. A second one was added
in 1890. and in 1900 a $4,000 batl
house was opened at sagene. Ten o
the public schools furnish shove
baths for the pupils, and it is pro
posed to open these baths to the pub
lie when the schools are not in SEES
sion. The public baths are crowde.
on Saturdays. This is only proper
for Lordag Saturday. mean ''bath
ing-day." The women do not bath