Morris tribune., 1905-10-21

B1OrnSTJorn0 bJOIlSoIl, mem IN
the courageous, the critically genllai
scrutinizer Of humanity; the origknal
Knlt Hamsun, with his bewitch1ngly
sweet poetry; Gunnar Heiberg, WIN
his mysterious situations; the honest
Jonas Lie and the pschycolog1cally
keen Amalie Skram. Then Thomas
P. Krag, J. Boyer, the plucky ana
nationalistic Arne Garborg and ofhers.
Wonderful, this little nation or the
north, this mountain land or GINS
and winterstornls But still Led us
hope that in spite of her new position
with her kindred neighbor she WAL
never forget the words Of our own
Schiller: 'Wir sind Elm enizig folk
Won brudern' Eve are single people
OF bEotheRs).
A Swedish journalist in Paris sent
a report to the Figaro Paris not
long ago to the effect that Fritz Thau-
low, the artist, had closed his atelier
in the French capital to go home to
Norway and help fight the Swedes.
But, as Mr.. Thaulow is pre-eminently
an artist, neither his Norwegian or
Swedish friends believe that even In
the event of war, the eminent arlls1
would have preferred the brush IN
stead of the sword. A Swedish paper
says in comment of the amusing
rr1lnor: with Fritz Thaulow on one
side and Anders Zorn on the other
there would indeed have been some
terrible fighting" Mr.. Zorn, the
Swedish artist, and Thaulow are the
most intimate friends.
In a recent interview Premier
Nicholson states positively that in his
capacity as chief of state he has not
communicated with the Danish royal
house regarding the throne of Norway.
It is also stated on good authority
that the Norwegian government Will
not again approach King Oscar regard
ing the selection of one of his sons for
the Norwegian crown.
The Norwegian storthing has ratified
the Karlstad treaty. There were only
sixteen dissenting votes. Premier
Nicholson closed the special session
Oct. 10, which was called to consider
the draft of the treaty of karlstad,
which was subsequently adopted by
the Norwegian parliament. The reg
ular session of the storthing was
opened Oct II.
Stavanger's new custom house has
now been completed. 1t is an imposing
structure and is the most substantial
building in the city. if not within the
entire country. 1t has frontage OF
70 meters and is built of granite. The
architectural work was done by f.
Setback Bull Of Bergen.
Gustav Thomassen has been en-
gagged as directing manager OF the
National theater in Christiania. Mr..
Thomassen has for number Of years
been connected with the Bergen thea
ter
The first passenger train from Ber>
gen to Vatnehalsen arrived at the lat
ter place Sunday, Sept. 10. There
were about $50 passengers, nearly all
members of the Bergen Tourist club.
Johan Svendsen, the eminent COM
poser, celebrated his Goth birthday
last month. He is in the best of health
and will spend the season in Christi
ania and Copenhagen.
Engineer Tanger has resigned from
his position of leader of the British
Norwegian SpitZbergen expedition and
will be succeeded by his assistant, En-
gineer F. Hovde.
The mackerel fishing in Sondmore
has during the past season melted the
fishermen 25O,OOO crowns. Last sea-
son the fisheries brought about 2OO,OOO
crowns.
A. G. Peterson, of Christiania, has
donated 1900 crowns to the Orkerod
orphan asylum and 1000 crowns to
the Norwegian Book Publishers fund.
More than 10000 souvenir postal
cards were send by tourists from
North Cape during the past summer.