Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-30
NORWAY.

southern Sweden this spring.
NORWAY.
The alting of Iceland, which consists
OF forty members, will go through Nor
way on their way home from their
trip to Denmark next summer.
The import duty on sugar nets the
government about $2.250,OOO a year.
Feeble attempts are being made to find
out whether it will pay to raise sugar
beets for the production Of sugar in
Norway, and the government is watch
ing those attempts closely in order to
be ready to put a tax on homemade
sugar, if such an article is produced.
Seventeen convicts from the Trond-
ljem prison Will be employed in plant
ing $4,000 trees on the ground laid
waste in Verdalen by the great land
slide of 1893
A Norwegian has invented an ap-
paratus for lighting and putting out
the gas automatically, and it is said to
be only a question of time when the
apparatus will be used for lighting the
street lamps of Kristiania. The ap-
paratus is placed just below the burn
er. BY slight increase of the pres
sure at the gas works the lamps are
lighted, and few seconds later the
pressure is reduced 10 the normal.
When the pressure is increased the
next time the gas is automatically shut
off, SO, that the light is extinguished
The invention is we'll protected by
patents.
1t is estimated that the Norwegians
carry about $20,000,000 of insurance in
foreign life insurance companies The
main reason why SO many people in
sure in foreign companies is, that the
great foreign companies are supposed
to be stronger than the small Norwe-
gian companies because they are doing
business on such an immense scale.
1t is gradually realized however, that
the best Norwegian life insurance
companies are as safe as any in the
world, and as their rates are consid-
erably cheaper than those of the great
foreign companies the latter are not
apt to increase their business very
much in Norway after this. It may
fittingly be mentioned that the Norwe-
gian insurance companies are using a
very effective argument against foreign
companies: last year some of the
strongest Swedish life insurance COM
panies gave their Swedish policy hold
ers permission to retain their rights
While going to war provided they paid
a reasonable extra premium, while the
Norwegian policy holders in the same
companies would have forfeited all
rights if they had gone to war. Final
~, the tremendous storm of patriotism
which struck Norway last year is apt
to turn the tide Of the life insurance
business in favor of the home con-
Germs.
The U. S. minister to France has
bought a painting by Frits Thaulow,
Winter Evening in Gudbrandsdalen,' -
for an art gallery in Philadelphia.
Henrik 1bsen died peacefully at $3.50
O'CLOCK May %. His literary activity
ceased some years ago on account Of
an apoplectic fit. From time to time
lately fresh apoplectic attacks came
upon him and it became obvious, es-
pecially in view of his advanced years,
that his death could not be far dis
tant. Tuesday night another seizure
left him completely unconscious, and
his physician, DR.. Bull, announced that
he had only few hours to live. At 2
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon the pa
TENTS respiration weakened and the
nurse in attendance summoned Mad
anne 1bsen, Sigurd Ibser. his son, and
the latter's wife, who remained at the
bedside till the end. The poet died
without a struggle. He was IS years
of age. King Haakon immediately
upon receipt of the news of Ibsen's
death transmitted to the widow his
own and Queen Maud's sympathy and
condolences. The storthing and other
public bodies formally recorded the
national grief at the loss of this fig
ure in the literary life Of the nation
All the theaters We're closed in the
evening. The authors union placed a
wreath on the Ibsen monument outside
the national theater. 1t is understood
that the funeral will be state func-
ton.
About one hundred seats will be re-
served for the representatives of the
press at the coronation of King Haa-
kon, in Trondl1jem. More than two
thirds of these seats will be occupied
by foreigners.
The Foldal mining company is &C.
ing to build a railway from Melhus
station down to the mouth of Gula
river, where large docks will be built
for the export of galena from the
Foldal mines. The localities men,
toned are few miles south Of Trond-
hjem.
Edward Grieg gave two concerts in
Amsterdam, and the local papers are
bubbling over with praise.
The board of education of Stavanger
number of years ago discharged a
teacher because she was married and
had child, no objection being made
to her work. She sued the city, and
the supreme court settled the case in
her favor. She will be reinstated in
her former position, and the total
amount which the city will have to pay
her in salaries which she might have
earned is S1,647.
1t is twenty years since the melting
of the snow in the spring gave so
little water to the streams Of southern
Norway as this year. Unless heavy
rains set in, Kristiania may have a
water famine before the end of the
year. Es. 5.s.. ; = II :.