Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-25
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The Larvik Savings Bank is going
to invest $4,000 in the Laagen Val
ley railway.
The post Office department of Nor
way sold postage stamps for $685.
600 during the past fiscal year.
The Bryde Mexico Steamship Com
pany has ordered 5000 ton steel
steamship at the Fevig iron works.
The government of Norway has or
dered a submarine boat to be built at
the Krupp iron works, Germany. The
craft is to cost about S250,000.
The brig Jolund was visited by eight
carrier pigeons on it's voyage from
England to Tornsberg Four of them
rested a while and then departed,
but the others found life on board the
ship too agreeable and remained there.
A new Liberal paper has been
started in Kristiania, Den frie
Presse' (The Free Press). The pro-
prietors of the new organ are scat
tered over the whole country. The
capital stock is $4,000, of which
Premier Nicholson has furnished a
large part.
A boat carrying nine persons from
Gjessingen to Skjorn, FROZEN, near
Trondhjem, must have met with
terrible calamity. Nothing has been
heard from the people in the boat.
But their fate may be surmised from
the fact that two chests and parts
of the outfit of the boat have been
thrown upon the shore.
Berlin, Sept ia telegram from
Advent Bay by way of Hammerfest
states that nothing has been heard
from the William Bruce expedition,
which left the base of supply almost
one month ago with the intention of
returning on August %. Mr.. Bruce,
with whom were Captain Boag-
son, a former companion of the
Prince of Monaco, and Captain John
son, a former companion of DR.. Nan
sen, took provisions for two weeks
only, and as no game can be found
along the coast, it is feared that the
cross Prince Charles Bay
The professors of the University of
| Norway agree that there is an over.
| production in certain professions. If
the number of graduates from the
| law department keeps on increasing
as it has done in the past the con-
| dition will be deplorable,'' says one
authority A prominent banker says
that lawyers are not success as
business men, because they are too
slow. AS to physicians, Prof. Holm
! DO says: IAN increased supply in
this profession must be discouraged"
The demand for preachers is just
about large enough to absorb the sup
| ply. There has been a great rush to
the philosophical faculty during the
| past few years, and 1.-The prospects of
those who graduate from this depart
ment are very dark" says Prof.
Kristiansen. Prof. Vogt says: Il dare
say that a considerable percentage
of the prospective mining engineers
must be prepared to migrate" But
most significant of all is the follow
ing utterance by Prof. Brogger, the
| present president of the university:
Il am firmly of the opinion that un-
less the young student is especially
| fond of studies there is no sense
in having him continue his studies
| Rather let him take up some kind of
practical work at once.'
The parish of LON, Gundbrandsdal,
| has received several hundred dollars
as a gift from natives of the parish
who are now living in America. The
money is to 60 towards the purchase
of an organ for the church.
The nitrogen manufacturing COM
| pany is constructing two plants in
TelemarkeA, and they will be fin
ished in three and six years, respec-
lively. About $500 men are employed
! all the time.
The Norwegian whaling steamers
operating along the coasts of Iceland
have had very successful season.
Two ladies and gentleman were
thrown into the water by the capsiz.
| ing of boat in the Kristiania ford,
and man who was in a cutter a few
yards away tried to save them, but
| they were all drowned.
"Kritiken" is the name of a new
paper just started in Kristiania. It
is edited by a student named HAZEL,
who has proved himself to be an able
| journalist.
The beautiful Otium, an estate near
Kristiania, has been sold to Consul
General Olsen at st. Petersburg for
| $4,000. u ~..z