Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25
NORWAY.

Hans Dahl, the Norwegian artist who
has become famous as painter of
-womens faces beaming with a peculiar
smile of their own, is branching out as
| an inventor, having invented a register
OF colonel glass showing the speed Of
automobiles. The invention was highly
praised at the International automobile
exposition held in Berlin some time
ago.
Bjornson is fighting valiantly for
cutting the church loose from the state
government. His Language reminds
us of a young man just entering the
battle Of life. A few sentences are sub
mitted as samples: what shame on
us, that it is still read In our constitu-
| ton that We still have state religion,
| and that his religion shall be Lutheran!
What comedy that the documents
embodying our creed, which all of us
must endorse, are unknown to more
than half of us, and that most of those
who are acquainted with them do not
care for them at all! What a mockery,
that almost every soul of us is put
up in records as a Lutheran Christian,
and scarcely one-half of us go to church
except when we are bound to do SO,
and thousands upon thousands Of us no
longer believe the doctrines of the
church!" Bjornson would make the
public schools secular but he would
let the children attend private parochial
schools Sundays and Thursdays.
It is proposed that the forts at Orje.
] which have been dismantled according
| to the Karlstad treaty., be turned into
a hospital, reformatory for women,
Kelley cure establishment or some
other useful institution.
The Kristiania turner's hall has been
| sold at public auction to the Depart
| ment Of war for 1910. This depart
| ment had invested $4,000 In the <bui1d-
| ing, and the total Indebtedness was
about 100000. The original cost Of
| the building was 100000.
The Norwegian government building
in Stockholm has been sold for about
$275,000 to A. Burman, who intends to
| divide up the building into family
rooms. ,
Kristiania employed 1927 persons at
| the beginning of the year 1906 and
| 1888 at the close, the increase for the
year being 73l. But the motive power
| used by the factories decreased very
materially uuAAA6 lAC year.
The printing office of Trondhjem
Adresseavis> was destroyed by fire in
the middle Of the day. The loss was
$4,000.
The storting resolved by a unanimous
vote that the state shall pay the ex-
penses connected with the funeral of
| Ex-Premier Johannes! Steen. The mo-
ton to that effect was made by Presi-
dent Berner and seconded by Premier
Nicholson.
ordered by a steamship company in
Finland has just been launched at the
Fevig shipyards, Arendals The. same
shipbuilders are constructing a second
steamer for the same company. -
Prof. Odland,: who resigned from the
theological faculty because the other
members were not orthodox enough, is
travelling through the country, agitating
against the heresies OF the rulers Of the
state church. In the southwestern part
Of Norway Prof. Odland is strong, but
his popularity wained as he passed
northward, and in Trondhjem he was
received with indi Inference. To make his
position still more unpleasant the
theological students have shown by
their vote that they do not side with
him III: S. 81; u .s
s.E The cabinet has appointed DR.. Sigurd
Ibsen# and Prof. III. .. IA orst. to repre-
sent Norway at the next Hague com;
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