Willmar tribune., 1907-11-27
NORWAY.


Kristiania has 7O,024 legal voters.
Hardly more than fifty automobiles
are in use in Norway.
Work has commenced on the new
Johannes churches in Stavanger.
A large canning factory is in pro-
cess of construction in Hangesund.
Norway imported ia 900 barrels of
herrings from Iceland during the past
year.
Erling Bjornson, son of the poet,
and Miss Jensen of Aalborg were mar
ried few days ago.
Forestry products is the largest
item on Norway's export list and
amounts to more than twenty million
dollars annually, and still but one
fifth of the country's lumber produc-
tion is exported.
Of dairy products Norway now ex'
ports about $2,500,000 worth annually,
while not further back than 1885 the
country not only did not export any
such products, but had to import con-
siderable of them.
A great landslide shook the cOun.
try around Fosmark, Hogsfjord, but
the place was uninhabited, so that
the damage was very small. The
huge rocks that were split loose from
the mountain slide were pretty we'll
broken up before they came to rest.
M. Doblung and wife. of Kristiania,
have donated $2,700 towards Michel
sens Fund" and the gift is accom-
Nicholson to suggest some way of u.s.
ing the proposed fund for the develop
ment of the natural resources of Nor
way.
Fifty years ago, while Bjornson was
still young man, he wrote the play
Between the Battles" 1t has now
for the first time been played at the
Kristiania National theater, and the
venerable author and his wife came
to the city from their home at Aule-
stad to witness the first performance.
Jaderen is the name of a low tract
of land in southwestern Norway. Some
enthusiast has claimed that this ter
ritory properly cultivated would sup
ply the whole nation with grain. Now
a sober man of figures has proven be-
yond a doubt that even at the very
best Jaderen cannot, for any length
of time, produce more than one-tenth
of the grain consumed in Norway.
In an address which Bjornson made
in the students union he pleaded Wig
orously for the establishment of re-
ligious instruction in the public
schools He closed mainly as follows:
Many claim that 1 want to destroy
Christianity. Yes, admit that would
be glad to see people get above and
beyond it, But I am too much of a
psychologist not to see that Chris
tianity is Indispensable to us for many.
many years to come. We must have
it, and as citizen wish that it may
| be a seed to usefulness. And there
fore, I ask you to assist me in this
| endeavor when you enter upon your
life-work.
Bagging a fox. Two small boys in
Espedal, West Gansdal, Gudbrands
dalen, saw dog chasing fox, and
each of them picked up stick and
joined the chase. BY running hard
they reached the animals. But as they
tried to strike the fox they hit the
dog so that he gave up the chase. The
fox crawled into a hole, but that die
not save him very long. The hole
was rather short, and one of the boys
held the fox by the tail while the 9th
er boy went home for a bag, afte1
which the two put the animal into the
bag They took care of the fox, ant
he soon became so tame that the,
could lead him around by rope.
A Christian 1aborers' meeting a
Stavanger passed strong resolution
against a religious sect because it Il
in the habit of administering th'
Lords supper without the assistance
of an ordained clergyman.
The Paris Journal des Debats say
it is significant fact that Norway sue
ceeded in uniting Russia, England
France and Germany in support OF th'
Norwegian treaty of neutrality.
During the recent fall market II
Stavanger the 'lid' was placed tigh
on all retail liquor establishments, an
drinks were more scarce than evel
According to an ordinance of Jan
7, 1741, those who wished to partak
of the Lords Supper had to hand II
their names to the sexton at leas
two days previously. This ordinanc
has been changed so that the name
may be handed in just before or eve
Just after the celebration of the Lord
Supper. r.
Honefos and Tvedestrand wen
dry" at the fall elections; but tn
majorities were small in both cases.
Steps have been taken to organic
the first clergymen's total abstinenc
society in Norway. .-. ...~-