Warren sheaf., 1903-05-21
NORWAY.

A big pavilion in Karlsbad, Aus
tria, has been named after Nansen.'
French capitalists are behind the
offer of 100000 to the Norwegian
government for a portion of Hovedo-
en-, large island in the Kristiania
fjord. The government will natural
ly move carefully in this matter.
Eduard Grieg gave a concert in
Paris and was very generously ap-
plauded.
The seventeenth of May says: ''It
seems to us that Bjornson has re-
Gently written in such a manner as
to thoroughly pave the way for a
Conservative majority. 1t is becom-
ing more and more difficult to see
the difference between Bjornson and
the conservative party"
Mr.. Burgaard, a Fredrikstad dairy
man, has patented an apparatus for
filtering milk. The price of it is
about $500.
Verdens Gang contained an editor
ial the other day in which the Nor
wegians were criticized because
there is no push in them. When
they come to America they generally
succeed as we'll as other people; but
as long as they stay in Norway they
think they are great kids even if
they don't put forth their best ef-
forts. And the result is, that the
country is going to the bow-wows.
The whole article is an impassioned
impeachment of the Norwegian ma
ton.
The municipality of Arendal has
been authorized by the government
to sell bonds to the amount of $780,
900.
Three persons have died from diph-
liberia in Fredrikstad and visinity,
about 100.
SWEDEN.
Mrs. Emile Landgren has donat-
ed $4,000 to the Gothenburg seamen's
society, the money to be used for the
erection of a home for old seamen
of good repute.
The striking harbor laborers Of
Stockholm gathered in such large
plumbers and assumed such threat
ening attitude towards those that re-
mained at work that the police had
to interfere
The congregation of the Koppar-
berg church of Falun was treated to
doze of coal gas during Sunday
service. One person after another
began to feel queer" and before the
situation was fully realized about rs
of them had become unconscious,
and most of the audience were more
or less affected by the poison.
The city of Luetzen, Germany, is
turning the battlefield where King.
Gustaf Adolf fell in the year 1882
into a public park. Upon request
from the city of Luetzen there will
be sent trees to the new park from
the geological gardens of Stockholm
as follows: 200 birch trees, 200 oak
trees, 5 beech trees, $50 pine trees
and 200 spruce trees. The transpor-.
tation expenses will be paid out of
the funds of the geological gardens.
The changing of this battlefield into,
a park SHOWS that the Germans are
still appreciating what the Swedes
accomplished during the thirty years
war. And Sweden's contribution to
the new monument is another in
stance of Sweden making sacrifices
for Germany, small nation helping
a great one.
Bishop II. w. Tottie of Kalmar is
going to marry Miss Hedvig Rappe, a
lady of noble birth.
The king is in receipt of peculiar
memorial which bears the signatures
of 116 persons, most O. whom are re-
sidents of Gothenburg. The signers,
request. the government to stem the
tide of emigration by providing
homes for the workingmen, encour-
aging farming on a small scale, re-
vising the mortgage laws, etc. The
memorial sets forth that the citizens
of Gothenburg are viewing with al
arm that so many able-bodied men
and women are forever lost to the
city.
A new peat factory has been estab-
ished at sionevad, Halland.