Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-10-15
DENMARK.


showing some one how the boy walk
ed to the roof of the cage.
DENMARK.
Queen Alexandra was expected to
arrive in Copenhagen Sept. %.
Automobile is long word, and the
lanes did not care to spend so much
Tune on the pronunciation of it. Pol
ltlken, Copenhagen daily, proposed
bll' pronounced beeD, and now
THIS word is used for automobile all
over the country.
The Great Northern Telegraph COM
Pany is constantly extending it's con-
nectlons in the far East. Some of the
lines which have been controlled by
russia and China will soon pass into
the hands of the Danes, and the day
is not, far distant when the Great
Northern will control continuous
line from Japan through China, Sibe-
ria, Russia and Sweden to the great
commercial centers of northern Eu-
rope.
Lieutenant Selchau Hansen recently
rode on horseback from Paris to Co.
penhagen. He rested every night and
eight half-days during the journey,
which lasted thirty days.
The cork factory Scandal in Copen-
hagen was destroyed by fire. The
loss was $4,000.
The Danish elections have sounded
the death knell of the Estrup sys-
tenn. The main characteristic of this
system was that the government u.s.
ed public money in violation of the
constitution of Denmark. This is 4
fearless funeral.
There are five smallpox patients in
the hospital at Thorshavn, Farce
islands; but the disease is stamped
out among the people at large, and
the schools are open as usual.
Some business men in northern Jyl-
land have advertised in local papers
that they will have nothing to do
with agents who use automobiles al
q means of conveyance.
Paul Verrier, a French linguist, has
learned Danish so we'll that he can
write original Danish poems, half a
dozen of which have been published
in book form.
While Danish squadron was stop
ping at Karlskrona, Sweden, a num-
Der of its officers were entertained by
Swedish officers in the city. They
started on their return at 3 o'clock in
the morning. One of them, bulky
oh IN, %ho
this made it capsize, throwing the
men into the water. Three of them
were drowned, but the rest of them
saved their lives by swimming. The
accident has caused deep depression
in the Danish navy.
The following story is not exactly
new, but it is the more interesting
The first child born in Kiruna, a min
ing town in northern Sweden, attract
ed the attention of the mining COM
pany, and the manager said he would
give the parents 100 kronor ($27),
provided the baby girl was named XII
runa. Her father, Norwegian,
thought the name might do well
enough for Finnish imp, but scarce
ly for Norsk Christian girl. The Of
fer proved too tempting, however, and
Kiruna she was baptized. It has
poetical sound and is the Finnish
name for mountain ptarmigan, the
shy, snow-white bird of the dreary
mountain plateaus of Scandinavia.
Stockholm, Sept. 14.-So far 1873
members of the second chamber Of
the riksdag have been elected. The
liberal fusion party has gained 20
seats and lost five, and the conserva-
tives have lost 20 seats and gained
four.
STAINING, the official organ of the
Skane district lodge of the I. o. G. T.,
has been sold to a stock company
which will publish it as political
temperance paper.
The railroads were taxed to such an
extent during the recent maneuvers
in southern Sweden Is regular
freight trains had to be cancelled.
The city council of Gothenburg has
elected a committee of five members
to report on proposition to sepa-
rate the city from the province and
have a stakeholder appointed as it's
chief executive. So far Stockholm is
the only Swedish city governed by a
stakeholder.
A foot of snow fell Sept. IL at Jock
mock, and strong crust was formed
on it the next day.
The city council of Anal has re-
solved to construct public water
works at cost of $65,00O and to erect
a city hotel at cost of $4,000.
The work of repairing the royal
palace at Stockholm, which was COM
menced in 1897, has just been COM
pleted. The expenses seem to have
been kept within the limits of the
appropriation, which was $135,ooo.
The stone for the original building,
[ as we'll as for the repairs, came from
q QUARRY on the island of Cortland.
when a young student had eaten
his dinner at a temperance hotel in
I the neighborhood of Sundsvall he
asked the landlady with a lofty ex-
!. preston in his face, "'Where is the
I bottle?" She stepped into the next
s room and soon returned with a suck
ing-bottle, which was properly filled
with the proper beverage.
Adolf Wessman, of Kristianstad,
has invented what he calls water
yelocipede., It consists OF two long
sheet iron tubes on which the rider
and the machinery rest, and it is pro-
relied by means Of stern paddle