Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-09-19

Two Norwegian companies have
commenced whaling on the Shetland
islands, and they are doing remark
ably we'll. The Inhabitants of the
islands are particularly fond of tho
Norwegians because they know that
they are of the same stock as them
selves.
4 A vegetarian union has been Or
gained in Kristiania.
= The Teterud forest, West Totem,
has been sold to Cesar Landaasen,
Biri, for $4,000.
A school teacher named Fasting and
an engineer have returned from Spitz-
bergen, where they have been digging
for coal. They report that the frost
reaches to depth of about $50 feet,
and below that they struck splendid
coal.
SWEDEN.
A representative of Swedish daily
recently visited Bjornstjerne Bjorn-
son at Aulestad, his world-famed
country home, and the poet expressed
himself as follows on certain social
and political conditions prevailing in
the Scandinavian countries: I am
emphatically opposed to the tendency
towards Emancipation from the idea
of nationality" which characterizes
the Social Democracy of Sweden to
no small degree. I am inclined to
believe that the Swedish employers
are partly to blame for this tendency,
for they have acted harshly and self
ishly in their dealing with their en-
ployes; but when the workmen are
Indifferent to the interests of their
country, they do not know what they
are doing. Momentous times are in
store for the peoples of the North,
and it will not do for any class or
any party to keep aloof from the ma
tional unification. And the different
Scandinavian countries must stand by
each other in opposing the common
danger. They must form a combina-
ton among themselves, and also agi-
tate for an alliance with others, chief
ly their German kinsmen. I have
thought of making trip to Sweden
and also to Denmark to speak on this
matter, the great Importance Of
which seems clear to me.
A young recruit who rode on tho
train from Hoor to his home at Full
tofta, Skane. had more luck than
sense. While he was standing on the
platform of his car, the train running
at full speed, his hat blew off. With
out stopping to think of the danger
he jumped off, and the other passen-
gers saw him take several somer-
saults. When tho train arrived at the
next station q man was ordered to
take a hand-car and look for the
jumper. The latter was found to have
received only few scratches as the
result of his escapade.
Two works on anthropology by
Prof. Gustaf Retzius of Stockholm
were highly praised by Prof. Ranke
of Munchen at the anthropological
congress held at Worms. Prof. Ret
zins, by measuring a great number
of skulls dating from the stone age
and later dates, has shown that Swed-
en- has been inhabited by Germannic
races from the earlies times. He has
also treated the modern Swedes from
an apthropological point of view, the
material at his disposal for this work
having been careful measurements OF
$4,000 Swedish conscripts. No purer
types of the Germannic race than the
Swedes can be found anywhere. The
Swedes have been subjected to more
careful and thorough anthropologica]
inquiries than any other people in
the world.
The eel fisheries of southeastern
Skane have given fairly good returns
The provincial government of Nal.
mohus granted new family names to
eight different parties at one time
The former names of seven of them
had the same ending, namely, "son,'
of course. Not one of the new ones
ends in "son."
The Swedish division of the North.
ern Bible Society holds that the new
translation of the Old Testament
"goes too far in the direction of Bible
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drawn up for the purpose of prevent
ing its introduction in the state
church congregations until it shall
have been endorsed by the consist.
cries and the theological faculties.
It will be remembered that from
time to time Russian saw-filers have
been operating in different parts Of
Sweden-and sometimes in Norway
They have been looked upon as spies
sent out by the Russian government
Dr.. T. Egraus, Swedish physician
residing in Baku, Russia, has writ.
ten letters to some of his relatives
near Visby, Gotland, throwing an en-
tirely new light in this somewhat
obscure subject. He explains that the
recent strikes in Russia brought ia
light the fact that several of the lead,
ers of the strikers had been travelling
as laborers, saw-filers, etc., in the
Scandinavian countries and Germany
for the purpose of studying the con-
ditions of the workingmen in those