Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-06-01
NORWAY,

bJOrnSOn has expressed himself in
favor of granting ''illegitimate" chill
dren the same rights of inheritance
| as others; but he is afraid that radical
laws on the subject might work in
justice.
There is no rush about distributing
the aid fund among the fire sufferers
of Aalesund. TO relieve immediate
Distress, $3.50 has been distributed
to every grown person and $50 to
every child among those who are to
receive aid at all. Persons who are
worth at least $2,7OO or whose income
and those who did not lose heavily
at the fire are also barred out 1t is
proposed to appoint a committee of
nine to distribute the balance of the
aid fund.
The corvette Ellida, the only sailing
vessel in the Norwegian navy, may be
sold to Haiti, the price mentioned
being $4,000.
Attempts to raise Indian corn will
be made this summer at the agricul-
tural college. The seed was raised in
North Dakota.
Kaiser Wilhelm has given two free
tickets to Norway to every public
high school in Germany, so that one
instructor and one scholar may visit
Norway free of charge this summer.
The excursionists will leave Hamburg
in body Aug. IS.
h0 -
ployed on the government land in
Ferdalen this summer will be sixteen,
and they will be selected from the
county Jail at Trondhiem. Their
chief work will be to dig bitches and
plant abuot $4,000 trees. The land
is the beds of the great landslide of
1893, when over one hundred persons
persisted in sea of clay. This is
the first experiment of it's kind made
with Norwegian convicts. The idea
was borrowed directly from Denmark,
where convicts have been used for
several years in improving wild land.
The new Norwegian translation of
the New Testament is finished by the
committee appointed for the purpose,
and Bishop Bang of Kristiania, the
chairman of the committee, has pre-
sented the work to the central COM
mittee of the Bible society. A res
olution was passed to have the new
version printed at once. This new
translation of the Old Testament has
been in use for several years, and it
is far superior to the old one. In
few weeks Norwegian readers will
have a chance to procure a new ver-
sion of the whole Bible. There we're
many minor inaccuracies in the old
version. and it's language in many
instances was unnecessarily crude.
The high school of Technology"
which is to be established in Trondh-
jem will in fact be a university of
practical arts, while theology, philos-
ophy, philology, ETC., will be cared for
at the old university in Kristiania.
OF the metal from the Aalesund
church bell souvenirs are being made
for Kaiser Wilhelm and Adiutant
Grumme and wife.
Quakers are about as scarce as hens
teeth in Norway on account of the
law that compels every ablebodied
young man to serve in the army.
They 'go west"
Captain Amundson, who in company
with seven other men, went in search
of the magnetic pole last year, was
seen at Dalrymple dock by Exishsen's
Danish expedition to West Greenland.
All the members of the Norwegian
expedition were doing well.
A committee appointed in 1899 to
revise the tax laws of Norway has
completed it's task. The committee
proposes that all persons having an
income of at least $4O5 shall be COM
PEELED to report their income to the
assessor, and that the limit of the
income tax shall be 10 per cent.
The $27O,0OO raised for the Nansen
fund means that Norway will have
an academy of sciences which will be
independent, which is not the case
with the university as long as it is
under obligation to be responsible
for the education of the public Off
Gals of the country. r ..z..:ss3 I. F.