Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-04

.decaying. 1t is said To- De LIZ Dttee
tree Of ito kind in Scandinavia, meas
uring over forty feet III clrcu1n1ere
near the ground.
The front wheels of an automople
were suddenly buried In the loose eonu
near Solicited, and the machine Was
troWn upside down. The two passen-
gers escaped with their lives Du1 'ne
chauffeur was instantly killed.
A young man who has lost one eye
but whose other eye is in me conu
ton, petitioned the king for the rlent
to serve as surveyor, but MS pe'i'io1A
was declined.
"Consumption hour" is the name IN
vented by the factory hands OF s"euen
to indicate the time when the rooii1s
in which they work are swept
Sofielund, a suburb of Malmo, VIII
soon have gas works OF us OWL sIo
later on public waterworks may 1ol-
low.
Consul Ekman of Gothenburg DO
mated $4,000 to the cathedral congre-
CATION of that city for the benefit OF inc
poor. The occasion was the ce1eora-
ton of his silver wedding.
Two boys who are studying in Stock
holm spent some time with their
father in China while he was a mis-
sionary in that country. While some
Chinese commissioners were stopping
in Stockholm a short while ago those
boys told their friends that they mad
learned to speak Chinese while they
were staying in China. Some OF the
scoo1 boys doubted this statement, and
one of the most energetic doubters
insisted upon introducing the two boys
to a Chinese commissioner, who could
speak only his own language. The
sons of the missionary humored the
doubter, and it did not take him long
to realize that they could converse
with the Chinaman, who, by the way,
praised them for their ability to handle
his difficult language.
Premier Lindman has declared that
the new cabinet will spare no efforts
in preparing franchise bill which is
to base the election of the second
chamber of the riksdag on general SUI
frage and to have both chambers cleo
ted on the principal Of proportional
representation. It is expected that the
government will place complete SUI
frage bill before the next riksdag.
Nothing is known about the real scope
of the bill.
NORWAY.
Last year a few students worked on
farms during the summer vacation.
Upon returning to the university they
told their friends that they were pleas
ed with the new departure, and this
summer many more students will work
on the farms. At the start only needy
students were found in this occupation,
but this summer they will be REIN
forced by young men who are more
comfortably situated from a financial
point of view.
The storting has made radical
change in the electoral system of Nor
way. Formerly the country was di-
vided into electoral districts whose rep
resentation in the storting varied ac-
cording to the population of each dis
trict. Now the country has been divid-
ed up into as many districts as there
are members in the storting, and only
one member is to be elected by each
district. Furthermore, each member
is to be elected directly by the voters,
electors, who in turn elected members
Of the storting. It is obvious that these
changes increase the influence of the
Individual voter.
A kind of worm is doing great dam
age to the birch forests of northern
Norway.
Jacob Bratland, the artist, died at
the age Of At.
A merchant named Ness crossed the
Vel ford on a hunting trip from Vega
to Mosjo. In the middle of the ford
his boat was upset. He and the three
| others who were with him all saved
their lives; but $500 which Mr.. Ness
had in the boat went to the bottom
of the ford.
Bergen, and three of it's occupants
were drowned.
Rev. Chr. Bruun, of Kristiania, still
feels SO sore about Norway cutting
herself loose from the union that he even
gives vent to his feelings from the
pulpit, which irritates the Norwegians
but edifes the Swedes.
Swedish frontier last fall says: zone
morning we were stationed in north
ern Solor, only six hundred yards from
the boundary line, and the Swedes
four hundred yards beyond the line.
Loaded cartridges had been distributed,
and drastic orders had been given.
The first Swede across the line-the
first shot! We were excited. We
could not sleep. The reports from
karlstad were alarming, and we were
prepared for anything. But every
man seemed to be calm. We lay there.
thinking and listening. Silence every
where. Suddenly shot rang through
the woods. It came from a loaded
cartridge. Without word of COM
mand all Of us rushed out No one
seemed to have slept. All were pre-
pared, all FASTENED to the trenches. We
lay there, waiting with bated breath
for the next shot. But it did not come.
1t never came. But our picket guard
brought young man who had been
out hunting black grouse. It was he
who had fired the shot which we took
to be the beginning of the war that
never came.''
A Lappish stone-god, or 'tseide," has
just been transported from Sargovarre.
Kantokeino, to the ethnographical mu-
scum at Kristiania.
Aalesund rebuilt is largely a, city OF
plain brick houses. But it is more
beautiful than before the fire..
The board of directors of the Stock
holm high school elected W. Bjerkness,
Norwegian, to a chair of physics
though he had made no apnlicatton