Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-04-18
SWEDEN.

A company has been formed for car
rying on automobile traffic in Helsing-
borg and vicinity
The "honk' of the wild goose was
heard as early as March IS in Southern
Sweden, and the birds bravely plowed
the air northward.
The historical museum of Lund has
just acquired valuable collection Of
antiquities, including the paper scis-
sors of Esaias Tegneer, a cane that
once belonged to Wilhelm Won Braun,
and the oldest and rudest bicycle to
be found in Sweden. rim ~~ -
The Ringsjo lake, near Malmo, was
frozen for three and a half months
last winter. This was the longest
closed season for about a quarter Of
a century.
Two men were burnt to death in a
house at the Naset f1shermen's hamlet,
near Smogen. In another house which
was not touched by the fire seventy
five-year-ol woman was so badly
scared that she died at the same time.
The corrected emigration statistics
for the year 1905 show that the total
number of SWedes who left their coun-
try in that year was 24046. The fig
ures for the year 1906 are expected to
show an increase of at least one thou
sand.
Major Renvall has constructed a
rifle on which the trigger is a button
to be pressed by the thumb. The
change is claimed to be of advantage
in cold weather and the invention will
be thoroly tested by the Norbotten
regiment.
Thousands Of volumes Of government
records in one of the old rooms of the
national banks at Stockholm have been
attacked by kind Of worm, and it
will be necessary to remove the books
to other quarters in order to save them
from the pest.
of the Skane bank were occupying so
much room that the officials of the
bank decided TO get rid of them and
business of the office for thirty years,
were hauled out into field and burnt
up.
The crown prince and a number Of
the other leading men Of Sweden have
issued a call for subscriptions to a
fund for the erection Of a monument
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poet and composer. It is proposed to
unveil the monument at Upsala Oct.
2, 1907, his Goth birthday anniversary.
About 300 members Of the largest
lumber dealers union in Germany are
going to charter a steamer for a trip
to Sweden next summer. They are
going to study the numbering industry
and the management of the forests of
Sweden, combining business with
pleasure on the trip.
Anders IsraelsSon Harselet, Ramsele
parish, Angermanland, died short
while ago. At his death he was sup
posed to be the Oldest person in Swed-
en-, having been born July 10, 1902. He
was blind and bedridden for some time
before his death. But his courage
never forsook him, and he was in the
habit Of saying: II was just a fool in
going to bed this way, for now I am
growing too lazy to get up again"
The women who are working in the
government railway Offices have petit
. toned the government to pay them as
much as the men employed. in similar
positions. The men are receiving from
. 20 to 80 per cent higher wages than
the women for a certain amount of
work. " . w
About f5 boys at the military school
at :Sllo' =" had a severe attack OF
t. hoif ever, caused by the use of
r,'1; f. in the Forsby cooperative
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+ . and feed the prices Of live stock
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b. Z han ever before. ff.'4s
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