Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-12

pletely benumbed, and the operation
was performed with the greatest ease
The patient felt no pain during the
operation; but when the bone was
Fsawed off he said: 'It sounds just as
though you were saving wood"
DENMARK.
Lady stenographers have been hired
to serve in the landsthing. They re-
celve the same pay as men provided
they perform the same amount of
work.
Danish clergymen to the number of
1877 have petitioned the rigsdag for
new marriage law. They are in ia
Vor of civil marriage, but they protest
against the present law which in GER
tam cases may require a clergyman
to act against his better conviction.
The chimney sweepers' society of
Copenhagen has celebrated the 125th
anniversary of it's organization.
The managers of the Fredricksberg
street railway company have made it
a rule to keep those conductors who
collect the most money, but to put the
less lucky conductors to some other
Lind of work.
The minister of the interior intro
duced bill in the rigsdag for insur-
ing the lives of invalids at the ex-
pense of the government. The bill
was referred to committee o. nine
teen.
NORWAY.
Rasmus Rolfsen of Bergen is dead.
He was engaged in several different
kinds of business, and he always man
aged to succeed. A few miles from
Bergen he cleared marshy tract of
land and turned it into model farm.
AS tree planter on a large scale he
was pioneer. Later in life he oper-
ated maltery, a shipyard and some
grist mills. Mr.. Rolfsen was in the
habit of sleeping in the day and work.
ing at night. His generosity was pro-
verbal, and he willed thousands of
dollars to useful and charitable in
.stitutions. This queer and good man
attained the age of 90 years.
The foundation of the johannes
church, Kristiania, is so poor that the
building has been vacated for repairs.
Seals were very numerous in Tan
en-; but when the whales appeared
among them they soon vanished.
The Styrmoe brewery, Drammen,
has been placed in the hands of re-
ceivers. .a..>
The gunboat Viking will be partly
reconstructed and supplied with larg-
er guns. The changes will cost about
$4,000. d.. .. <,t
The proprietors" of the Kristiania
Morgenposten. have received divi-
dend of per cent.
DR.. G. Sanerwein, German lin
guist who has studied Norwegian so
thoroughly that he can write good
poetry in different Norwegian dia-
lects, has published pamphlet in
which he makes an impassioned APP
peal to the Norwegians and the
Swedes to work for international
peace and arbitration. ...,: ss..... .,
A great snowslide at Sjoa, near Lii.
lehammer, buried four persons. One:
of them was killed instantly, and the
others were more or less injured.
( The city of Kristiania had 225,677
inhabitants at the beginning Of this
year. The increase for 1902 was 76s.
SWEDEN. ~ =, .s~.
It is proposed to restore the Gray
Friars' monastery at Ystad, part of
the necessary funds having, been
promised by private parties. It will
cost $4,000 to put the building in
good shape.
The foreign post office department.
at Malmo transacts all money order
business between the United States
and Sweden. The number of money
orders received from America in De-
cember was 31,524. Over 300 Of them
are still kept at Malmo because the
addresses are not plain enough.
The electric method of producing
steel which was invented by an engi-
neer named Kjellin, at Gysinge, will
be thoroughly tested by the Spanish
department. of war.
Venersborg is supposed to be the
most sober city in Sweden, 1900 per-
sons, or 20 per cent of it's population,
being members of total abstinence or
CARNATIONS. IN lsIt5 .- a.5.3
An American fuel company has ask
ed the American consul at Gothen-
burg how much Swedish peat would
cost per ton in Gothenburg harbor.
The officials of Malmohus Ian au-
thorized the payment of $2,7OO from
the funds of the Malmo children's
home to the Sofelund insane asylum
for new addition; but the courts
found this to be a misrepresentation Of
the funds Of the children's home, and
ordered the $4,000 to be refunded.
The clergy Of Stockholm believe
that said city ought to be made do
cese all by itself,
a thick crust Of ice was formed on
the railway track at storlien, Jent-
land, during snowstorm, and To-
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