Warren sheaf., 1903-04-30

Mr.. Thhygesen, the oldest men,
pleted his 97th year.
A majority of the landsting has
voted in favor of an income tax and
a property tax. The vote was 33 to 2
and % refrained from voting.
SWEDEN.
The assets of the Malmo working
mems building association amount to
$50,000, and the receipts for the past
year were $4,000.
Strikes and lockouts are reported
from several cities in Norrland,
Cafe being the center of the trouble.
The leaders of the different in
dependent religious denominations
of Sweden are discussing the advisa-
bility of holding joint convention
next fall.
The beet growers around the Roma
sugar factory, Gotland, will reduce
the area devoted to sugar beets about
$500 acres.
The aeronautic society has resolv-
ed to order a new balloon in place of
''Svenske," which blew away Feb.
IS. Captain Unge is willing to try
his luck once more.
The worst snowstorm of the sea-
son occurred April 4 at the Norwe-
gian boundary line on the Gellivare
and OfoteD railway. Both the Swed-
ish and the Norwegian train got
stuck in the snowdrifts and had to
be shoveled out T. Nilsson, an ex-
ira watchman, was killed at a curve
by a train of empty cars.
Georg Schuldheis, the inspector of
the insane asylum of the country,
has visited all those institutions, and
reports that improvements in many
ways are highly desirable or even
necessary.
The committee which has charge
of the royal proposition of dividing
the diocese of Hernosand into two
dioceses and of uniting the diocese of
Kalmar and VeXio into one, is in fa-
vor Of the proposition.
1t is proposed to establish a new
forestry school in Norrland.
NORWAY.
Bishop Won Scheele of Gotland,
Sweden, writes about work on
NORWAY in the Nineteenth Century"
by Sare: ''The first and last thing
that fascinates me in this book is the
Norwegian people itself with it's in
comparably youthful spontaneity,
which seems to have sprung out Of
the titanic character of the country.
Here is youth and health, courage
and strength. It is felt that this peo-
pie has a future, a great future, if
God only is permitted to add his
blessing."
The warm weather in March was
followed by snow-storms and wintry
weather in general during the first
ten days of April.
The actors of the Kristiania ma
tional theater are going to give eight
performances in Stockholm. A ma
jority of the plays to be presented
were written by Ibsen and Bjornson.
The emigrants carried $sOO,OOO in
cash out of Norway last year.
The fisheries department reports
that 19,2oo,ooo Goldfish were caught in
Norway up to April 4, while the
corresponding number for 1902 was
27,9OO,O0O.
A man was shot and killed by a
paper wad at Larvik last Christmas.
Six men fred blank shots at him,
and the authorities are busy trying
to find out who fired the fatal shot.
It is hardly needed to add that the
men were only having fun. .
Wooden buckets, spoons, rolling
pins, moulds, tec., which were made
in America are sold in Norway; and
the Norwegians go to America-t
make just such articles, perhaps.
''You have distinguished yourself
as king in cheating and lying"
These were the words spoken by a
Kristiania teacher to boy in his
class. The parents of the boy .sgot
hot" and sued the teacher; but the
courts acquitted the teacher and
made the parents pay the expenses.