Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-11-25

that the council threatened to with
hold the minutes from the reporters
if they did not obey the rules laid
down by the council.
A strong man from Unnaryd, not
far from Vernamo, had a grudge
against farmer living at Femsjo,
and he went to the house of the far
mer and picked quarrel. The far
mer was in very bad pinch, and his
wife picked up revolver and fired a
shot Approximately between the heads
of the combatants. The work of the
bullet proved to be of the queerest
kind. Strictly speaking, the strong
man from Unnaryd received four
wounds in his nose, furnishing him
with two extra nostrils.
Paragraph Is of the constitution of
Norway provides that the Norwegian
militia ''shall never be used beyond
the boundaries of Norway Several
members of the storthing are in IA
vor of amending this provision so as
to read thus: the militia "shall never
be used beyond the boundaries of
Norway unless the storthing so de-
cides." This idea is received with
great satisfaction by the Swedes.
The Indian corn raised last sum-
mer at the Sorgenfri nursery, near
Mal1no, became perfectly ripe, though
the weather was by no means favor
able.
A young peoples socialistic club
in Stockholm passed resolution
against all kinds of war, even in case
of Il foreign invasion.
Bengt Person of Jerrestad raised a
beet that weighed II pounds. He
keeps the monster as curiosity.
\ laborer at Skaralid bought small
bottle Of ''Matthew's Medicine" which
the purchaser was made to believe
to be an incompatible panacea. He
paid about $40 for the stuff, which by
chemical analysis proved to be moth
ing but water.
The health of the queen is by no
means satisfactory. Her ailment is
high degree of anemia.
The consistory of Hernosand has
proposed that bishop for the new
diocese of Lule be elected Jan. q.
The potato crop of Sweden is large
enough to supply the demand, hence
no potatoes will be imported during
the next ten months
1t is proposed to construct a large
iron furnace at Karlsvik, Norrland,
for the reduction of iron ore con-
tanning only 40 to As per cent of iron.
Prof. Lundberg, president of the
North Side college, Stockholm, who
has just celebrated his sixtieth birth
day, expressed himself as follows in
an interview on the young people at
tending school: The young people at
tending the higher schools in Sweden
are more humane, but they also at
tain mental maturity much more rap
idly than they did even as recently as
twenty years ago. Public sentiment
is much more strongly developed than
formerly. society life f1ourishes even
among small boys, and at an early age
the young people manifest decided
inclination to embrace certain views
in religious or social matters, the
more liberal the more desirable. One
of my scholars is pronounced follow
err of Hinke Bergegren "a radical
anti-war agitator), and another made
out with considerable sufficiency in
an original composition that there is
lack of lyric fight and poetic senti-
ment in the works of Snoilsky (who is
regarded as one of the leading lyric
poets of Sweden).
G. V. Karlsson, policeman in Vexio,
has invented an apparatus for saw
ing people from the upper stories of
a burning building. 1t is predicted
that the contrivance will be intro
duced in Sweden as we'll as other
countries.
The late Mrs. Anna Nordstrom of
Nora bequeathed $4,000 to the city of
Nora, and smaller amounts to other
parties.
The poor board of Stockholm is in
the habit Of distributing thousands
of pairs of shoes among poor school
children every fall. These shoes for
merly had wooden soles. Those who
wore them did not like this, for
wooden shoes came to be looked upon
as tokens of pauperism by the other
school children. To save the chill
dren from this humiliation two of the
parishes of the city have resolved to
have leather used instead Of wood for
soles.
Archbishop Ekman officiated at the
twenty-five years jubilee of the Swed-
ish congregation in Paris.
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