Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-02-21

The committee on agriculture is in
favor of having the government pur-
chase the farm known as North Cicero,
Helgeland, and turn it into a sheep
farm fort b benefit of northern Nor
way. b
The Fiskum church. near Drammen,
was destroyed by fire one Sunday
forenoon just before the services were
to commence. The altar painting and
the movable furniture were saved.
The Fiskum church was a stone struc-
ture having only one auditorium, and
there are about sixty such churches
left in the country.
The residence of the keeper of the
Helleso light house was struck by
lightning and burnt to the ground.
The twenty persons living. in the
house had ~to3transfer their headquar-
tiers to the lighthouse for the time
being.
Three children. the oldest of which
was eight years of age, were burnt to.
death in S~atersdalen. Four older chill
dren were saved out of the burning
house, but they were slightly injured
by the flames. The youngest chiMi
was saved without sustaining the.
slightest injury.
The new church building at Rena,
Aamot, was dedicatedSb by Bishop Hille
Jan. II. The building is a frame
structure. and cost &c., 200. A ban
quet was given to 100 prominent men
in the afternoon.
A number of teachers of physical
culture have requested the govern
ment to adopt measures for the adj
vancement of the cause of physical
culture in the public schools. The pc
titioners admit that the movement
ought to have been started among the
people, but the people aer too slow to
grasp the Importance of proper ply
steal training. NY y
The Russian government has placed
a tariff on sailed or picked herring,
while fresh herring is admitted free.
a Russian importer is taking advan-
tage of this difference in a new way.
At Stromstad, for instance, he scat
tered the herring that he bought on
the ice and left them there until they
froze solid. Then he packed them in
boxes and shipped them to Russia,
where, it is claimed, that he gets
from&12 to IA cents a piece for them.
Aron Heidengren, the founder5of the
Heidengren Manual Training School
in Helsingborg, is on his way to Cuba,
having been engaged to teach manual
training in Havana. He$iss to receive
a salary of $125 a month for the first
year and more later on. The position
was secured for; him by an American
who once had been his pupil at the
Mas Sloyd Seminary.
It has been repeatedly stated in
these columns that the 100000 do
mated to King Oscar on tile occasion
of his quadri-centennial jubilee was
devoted wholly to the establishment
of three sanitarium for consumptives,
The s%anitariums have been in opera
ton for some time. Now his majesty
has decided that the institutions shall
be managed by boards appointed .es.
pecially for that purpose.
A telegram from Lahore states that
Dr.. Sven Hedin has arrived at that
place.
Some of the engineers of the naval
department are engaged in preparing
plans for a new submarine boat.
J The speech from the throne was
read by the king himself at the open
: ing of the riksdag.
A committee appointed last year il
the interest of temperance has pro
, posed that the, maximum proportion
of alcohol in liquors sold for bever
age purposes be put at 40 per- cent
: and that the practice of sending
liquor peddlers through the rural dis
: tricts be stopped.
!. Some boys accidentally discovered
!, that the Aker lake at Trollhattan de
: velopes inflammable gas. The lake j!
covered with ice. When a hole is GU
n through this, especially over a big
bubble, the rising gas may be Lighted
i with a match, and a flame is main
r tanned until the supply is exhausted
9 at that spot. The lake is shallow ant
has a muddy bottom.
The budget of receipts and expenses
I for the coming year was presented t
the riksdag shortly after it's opening
d 1T is estimated that the total receipts
will be SAG, ala. Among the ex
d penditures may be mentioned a littl
over. three million dollars for interes
e on, and the reduction of, the nationa
debt. two million dollars for new bar
racks, and almost 100000 for tn
workingmen's insurance fund.
Two Russian saw filers were appre
hended by the sheriff Of Varmdon
tried and ordered to leave the coun
o try. They left, for Russia with tn
next steamer.
n "A seven-month-old elk has beel
v trained to pull a sled at Sveg, Skana
and he a easily convey a load Q
n three men with a speed equal to tina
of a swift horse.
Adolf Heden, the veteran rigsdag
le man from Stockholm; paid a touchin'
tribute to the memory of the lat
le Sofus Hogsbro, the Danish Statesman
n .Hogsbro."' he said. "sbelieved in Jus