Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-07
The storthing has voted $50, 900 for
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the construction Of parsonages.
The Norwegians were delighted to
see that the Swedish press as whole
had only kind words to say about
Bjornson on his 10th birthday.
Among the congratulations received
by Bjornson on his 10th birthday was
one from his nurse, who used the fol-
lowing terms: Congratulate you on
the occasion of your seventy-year
birthday, and wish you all good
things for the days of old age. From
Karen Kjolmoen, who carried you in
her arms in your infancy"
SWEDEN.
The fate of Andree's balloon ex-
petition to the North Pole does not
seem to have deferred his countrymen
from travelling in the kingdom of the
air. The most enthusiastic aeronauts
cannot even wait for milder weather.
On December 14th Engineer Fraenc-
KEEL and Lieutenant Enestrom started
from Stockholm with the balloon
Svenske, crossed the Baltic sea and
landed at Novgorod Tschudova, Rus
STA. The trip was highly successful
in every particular, and some valuable
experience was made. The people liv-
ing at the place of landing received
the aeronauts with hospitality and
rendered every assistance within their
means.
The agricultural engineers are un-
able to perform all the work that
ought to be done by them, and the
department of agriculture is in favor
OF appointing an engineer for every
Ian, or province.
More than 100 reindeer have been
killed this winter on the railway
track between Gellivare and the Nor
wegian boundary line.
When Kingston Qake), skane, froze
this winter large numbers of ducks
failed to realize that they were shut
out for good, and stayed around the
lake for days.
The Mariefred labor union of Stock
holm has received rare gift from
King Oscar. It is huge chandelier
which the present king inherited from
King Oscar 1. and which has been
kept at Gripsholm palace. It is to
be used for lighting the new hall Of
said labor organization.
A. E. Brain, Of Ostersund, has sue
ceeded in soldering aluminium, and
has decided to have his invention pat
ented
An eight-year-old girl and a six
year-old boy at Ljungby went out on
the ice of the Lagan river without
leave, and both of them slipped into
IN air-hole and were drowned
Miner" is the name of the new
scientific temperance periodical pub
lished by DR.. J. Bergman. Miner
is the symbol of wisdom and water
in Morse mythology. Over 1,10O per-
sons proposed names for the paper.
fire which destroyed Hombs poor
house, near Tidaholm, caused the
death of one of the inmates, 75-year-
old woman.
P. NJ. Danielsson. who was 80 years
old, was burnt to death in a fire at
Osterholmen, near Vexio.
The proprietors of some of the larg-
est numbering concerns and woodwork
factories in Norrland are contemplat-
ing the organization of a powerful
combine.
August Strindberg has received 4
prize of $500 from the Albert BONNER
fund.
A Masonic lodge at Gothenburg has
celebrated it's 125th anniversary. The
full name of it is, 1.-THE St. Andrew
Scotch Lodge Of the Three United
Crowns"
DR.. Sven Hedin, the explorer of
Central Asia, lectured in Edinburgh,
Scotland, Dec. II, and the royal geo.
graphical society of Scotland awarded
him the Livingstone gold medal, the
greatest badge of honor which a
Scotchman can confer upon anybody
DR.. Hedin is the second recipient of
the Livingstone medal.
The Mas normal school, which has
= worldwide reputation as an educa-
tor of teachers Of manual training,
horticulture, games, etc., has added
a new branch, namely, a school kitch-
en- for the education of instructors in
cooking and housekeeping.
The students of Lund have given
about $1,000 to the famine stricken
people of Norrland.
Hessleholm, Skane, is booming. The
number of school children is growing
so fast that an extra teacher had to be
appointed, and the Good Templars'
hall is to be used to accommodate the
overflow attendance.
Considerable portions of the root
crops of northern Skane are still in
the ground.
A baby two months old was left
in the cradle and a seventeen months
old boy was left walking on the floor
by Stockholm mother who stepped
out of the house for a few minutes.
The little fellow must have come too
close to the stove, setting fire to his
clothes. For when mamma returned
his clothes were gone, his body burnt
black, his life extinct.
The Vjedomosti, great Russian
daily, criticizes the distribution of the
Nobel prizes.
DR.. C. D. at Wirsen, the secretary of
the Swedish academy, pronounced an