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separate consular service, is not al
ways as brotherly as could be desired.
Another Prominent Man Dead.
Johan Blackstad, chief prosecuting
attorney for the state (rigsadvokat).
was on the 9th instant IN t.! struck down
car and expired "a few minutes later
in a drugstore. He was born at Ber-
gen Nov. l6,. 1882. He succeeded Mr..
Getz as rigsadvokat in 1901.
Mr.. Blackstad was man Of rare
judicial ability. His decisions were,
fallible, at least in a moral sense. Add
ed to this his solid knowledge, his COM
handing and well-controlled tempera-
ment and winning personality, and
you have picture of the man whose
lot it was within a quarter of a cen
fury to be the leading introducer of
the jury system into the Norwegian
judicial system.
Norwegian Fishermen in America.
A number of fishermen from the Sku-
desnaes district, on the west coast Of
Norway, have for the last nine of ten
years every summer gone to America to
catch bluefsh. They leave their fami-
lies behind and return. with the dollars
even been engaged in this pursuit for
twenty years. They receive fair pay
for their work-$35 month and l cent
for every fish caught. In the first part
of the summer, when the catch is at
it's best, they can make as much as
$40 or $50 a month. The money they
save is sent home. They claim the dol
10 nh far ho
further in Norway than if they should
take their families over to America
and settle there. Their field of opera
lions lies between New York and Cape
Hatteras. They are generally in the
employ of American firms.
The First Snow.
IL After the finest summer and most
beautiful. fall, the winter has come at
last. While it was election day, and
the political storm ragged in America,
the first snowstorm of the season was
skurrying over Christiania and the rest
of old Norway. The air had been some
was, nevertheless, surprise to wake
UP last Tuesday and find the streets
well covered with snow-not that it
came earlier than usual. On the con-
trary, it is the first time in twenty
five years that October has passed
without snowfall in this city, but there
had been no warning. The storm was
Of such a furious character that there
was much delay in steamship traffic,
and from Nordland comes the sad news
that twenty fishermen lost their lives.
Norwegian congressman to Paris.
About a, dozen delegates have been
chosen from the Norwegian storthing
to. represent their country at the inter
nol wi how
Paris. Their trip has been much dis
| cussed by the press and public, and
| many declare that Norway can i'll af-
| ford to spend money for such purposes;
but as Sweden and Denmark sent dele
gates, Norway; thought she must fol-
| low suit.
a.. The American Invasion.
While the importation of American
| products. has been steadily increasing
| for many years, there are things we
get from the far west that most people
| there never think of. You may know
! that we get salmon from Oregon, but
that you may drop into almost any
bookstore and find standard literature
in America and sold here at prices far
below those asked in, America, is not
generally known Shakspere's works
you may buy, nicely bound, at 16 cents
volume, and almost any book you
can name at 81 cents a volume. The
booksellers say that the sale of books
in English is steadily increasing. Books
by Norwegian authors cost from 81 to
81 apiece. Take, for instance, one of
Ibsen s plays, that sells for about S
kroner in Norwegian; you can buy the
same book translated into German for
6 cents. The limited market for .itera-
tnre in the Scandinavian languages is,
of course, the main reason for the high.
prices. -
: Another article that America has
been supplying us with lately is popu-
1 lar songs. =; g Bedelia'' is the latest,
having been introduced by Mrs. Wiehe-
Berehny. 1t caught the public fancy
at once and now you can hear the tune
whistled by almost every other street
arab.
For long while only one brand of
but now you can see clarifying "adso
of several brands of Minnesota -four
or New York baking powder in the
same newspaper.
| What Norway Tries to Sell America.
| Wood pulp and fishery products are
still the chief items of export to Ameri-
ca. Owing to the failure of this year s
| herring fisheries, none of that article is
IN tne market ELMER Iof nome coHSump-
! ton or for report. s.-
i Books, mostly Of religious character,
are quite an item, and amount to
about seventeen thousand dollars an
nually, all being shipped to firms in
Chicago, DEBORAH and Minneapolis.
Norwegian cheese, mainly ''goat
cheese, seems to be gaining in favor
Iamong American consumers.
Exports of Norwegian sHtyttebaer'
| something like cranberries) have also
been tried the last two summers. This
year a single firm at Trondhiem has
sent $4,000 liters GOO barrels) of
tyttebaer" to America, and it is
claimed that still more could have been
exported if frst-class goods could be
had. But the farmers are not care
full enough in handling them, and lead
ing Norwegian papers are speaking
lplainly about their slovenliness in this
1 respect, by which, they deprive them
selves and the country Of money that
could easily be made if they only knew
their own business.
Artificial Cotton
! "Artifcial cotton has been produceq
NOV from oallu1OSe obtained