Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-20
NORWAY,

The department of war has prepar-
ed a complete report on the tests
made with different uniforms for the
army. Those in charge of the tests
succeeded in devising a pattern which
satisfies the demands as to comfort
ableness and strategic considerations.
But not so with regard to the cloth
required. The 'mountain gray" uni
forms were found by numerous tests
to be the least conspicuous, and
therefore the most desirable of all
colors. But this particular color has
very poor lasting qualities, in fact so
poor that this pattern had to be dis
carded. Nor is tho cloth itself as du-
rable as the blue cloth used for the
present uniforms. For these reasons
the ''mountain gray" uniforms will
not be introduced in the army. The
experiments will be continued, and
the blue cloth used for the old style
uniforms will be more carefully test
ed. 1t is settled, however, that the
cut of the blue uniforms to be made
in the future will be closely adapted
to the new model.
New life has been fused into the
Spitzbergen coal mining company,
and the work will be pushed until
the stockholders have ascertained
whether Spit1bergen coal can COM
pete with English coal in the Arctic
waters or not.
r. Tveteraas, a man wholly I'M
known to the public, has suddenly
surprised tie Norwegian people by
publishing L volume of poems which
prove him to be a poet of high rank.
The title Of the book is Iron and
Blood"
Andreas Braathen, one of the lead
ing lumbermen of Drammen, is dead.
He was greatly interested in church
! work.
Mayor Eyde of Bergen died sudden
~ as the result of an apoplectic fit.
Several mass meetings at the fisher
mems hamlets around Svolvar have
passed resolutions urging the local
steamship owners to sell no whisky,
beer or wine on their steamers in the
| diocese of Tromso.
About 25 cases of diphtheria were
reported from Tromso and vicinity in
the latter part of March.
The degree of doctor of philosophy
was conferred upon J. F. w
Schencke. While studying in Germany
he was admitted to be we'll versed in
the Semitic languages and in the his
tories of Egypt, Assyria and the Is
raelites.
The storting has grappled energet
ically with the liquor problem, an6
one of the results is, that 65 pei
cent of the surplus of the samlae
| (saloon) traffic shall be turned into
the national treasury. So much pro
hibition talk was 1ndulged in by the
members of the storting that Kristo
fer Randers wrote a poem in which
he prayed to the Greek god of win.
to assist his worshipers against tn,
storting.
1t is just 100 years since a pos
Office was established at Aalesund
and the present postmaster, P. Ton
der, is number seven.
Andreas Hansen and wife of Berg
Enningdal, in the southeastern cor
ner of Norway, celebrated their dia
mond wedding, March rs. The bride
groom was 80, the bride 70 years old
Mr.. Hansen taught school for abou
so years in Enningdal. He breaks
little new ground every year, holding
that ''every farmer should add new
land to the kingdom of Norway ever,
year as long as he is able to do So.
Rev. w. A. Wexelsen died at the az
of 76 years. He served as a ministe
in the state church at differen
places around Trondhjem from 1876
to 1890.