Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-11-02
NORWAY.

caught in Norway during the season
up to Oct. IL was less than 40, 900 bar
rels, while the corresponding catch for
last year was 100000 barrels. Mean
while the Dutch fishermen have caught
over 5000 barrels, and the Scotch
fishermen are also doing we'll. About
$4,000 barrels of herring has been inn
ported from Iceland for the Norwegian
canneries. The Norwegians have re-
ceived about 10000 barrels of mackerel
caught in the North Sea, as compared
with 10000 for the corresponding
period of 1903
There were 434 savings banks in
Norway in 1903. The oldest one,
Kristiania Sparebank, dates from 1922,
and rs of them were established before
1856. Twenty-one were established
during the years 19oO-1eo3. At the end
of the past year there were 742, 912 de-
positors, or almost one-third of the en-
tire population. Their deposits aggre-
gated $50, $50, 900, and the increase dur
ing the year was almost $4,000, 900.
Over 80 per cent of the deposits amount
to less than 500 kroner ($135) each,
but the deposits of the remaining 20
per cent amounted to no less than IS
per cent of the total deposits The
average would be SAL SO for each de-
positor, as compared with about $40
the previous year. The banks had
| charge Of about $1O6, 900, 900 and the
assets Of the banks were $11, 500 900.
nj Hvy+ 1o
averaged 4.21 per cent; the interest
charged by the banks, SIS per cent.
The running expenses were trife
more than % per cent of the capital
handled by the banks, and the total
losses aggregated $17s,7oo. OF the
gross receipts, 3.3 per cent was given
away for benevolent purposes It is
somewhat surprising that the Norwe-
gian people managed to increase the
savings banks deposits by almost $4,-
100000 during the ''hard times of 1903.
Prof hansen and family, who spent
the summer in Numedal, have returned
to their home in Lysaler.
Prof Sofus Bugge has made spe-
cial study of the runic letters from the
| Viking ships found at Oseberg and
Gokstad. One inscription was on
kettle, and it may mean, II am spa
cious," and another had been cut into
a stick of wood. The latter inscrip-
ton seems to be only part os SEN
sentence. On the whole, the inscrip-
tions seem to be insignificant. But,
incidentally, they throw light on the
age of the ships, because they are
! written in the same runic letters as
the inscription on the famous "Rok-
stem" in Ostergotland, Sweden.
The city council of Bergen resolved
to close ten of the sixty places where
beer aud wine are retailed. At the
same time the license for retailing
wine was fixed at $27, the maximum
limit permitted by law.
The city council of Aalesund re-
solved to stop the retail sale of beer
and wine at Z o'clock in the evening.
At recent meeting of the Kristi-
ania academy of sciences, Prof Alex
ander Bugge lectured on the Irish and
the Icelandic sagas, and he demon
strated the striking similarities be-
tween the two. He further reasoned
that, inasmuch as the Irish sagas were
the older of the two, the Icelanders
had learned their art from the Irish.
| The governments budget for 1905
calls for an expenditure of $3,2O5, $50
on account of the national debt, which
is an increase of $35, 900, as compared
with the corresponding item for the
current year. The annual expendit-
ures has doubled since 1885,
Sixty Norwegians exhibited fruit at
fruit exposition in Dusseldorf, Ger
many. l. Olsens widow, of Lier, ex-
hibited no less than so varieties of an.
pies. :, \
Some bright SPECTATORS in Kr,sti-
ania have imported large quantities OF
secondhand furniture from GERMANY.
repaired the goods and sold them at
high prices at public auctions -. :.
The records Of the city employment
bureau5sof Kristiania show that for
Ievery 26o persons who applied for work
in September only 100 obtained work.
] AS Il female help the demand exceed
led the supp ).
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