Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-10-24
NORWAY.

NOnVVAIs
The people of Stavanger must be
prosperous, for it is much easier to
rent out expensive houses than for
inerly.
Kristian Aasland, farmer near
Sravanger, has been judge of awards
at the agricultural fairs of his district
for twenty-five years.
The proposition of the medical as
sociation to establish a hospital for
inebriates at the Orje fortress, which
was vacated according to the treaty
of Karlstad, has been considered by
the department of justice, and royal
proposition on the question will be
placed before the storthing. Those
who are most interested in the move
ment are in favor of equipping the in
stitution in the course of the next
few months so that it may be ready to
receive patients in the fall of 1908.
Thirty patients will be admitted as a
start. The old barracks will be used
free of charge, and the state will be
asked to contribute a certain amount
each year to the running expenses.
Emil Knudson, clairvoyant, has
been extensively advertised since the
discovery of the Flottum boy at
Singsaas. Knudson has known his
powers for years and has used them
on different occasions. He must be
a very honest man, for he explains
the phenomena just as he finds them.
He says that it generally requires
great exertion to see things at dis
lance, and if he is tired his efforts
are apt to fail completely. The ex-
periments which he has made are too
varied and numerous to have any
doubts as to his being a genuine nat
ural clairvoyant. He complains be-
cause people are always troubling him
so that he cannot have enough time
for rest.
When the schooner Cathrine was
wrecked on Crozat island in the In
dian ocean the ~shipwrecked crew
used the stores placed at a depot on
the island by the British government
27 years ago. The department Of
commerce of the Norwegian govern
ment has made arrangements for re-
placing the stores that were used up
in case of extreme distress. No
meat or meat products will be trans
ported to the island, which is teeming
with game of different kinds. The
main articles to be sent will be two
rifles, 1000 cartridges, 20 pounds of
tea, 80 pounds of coffee, 400 pounds
of bread, 80. pounds of wheat flour,
100 pounds of rice, fshlines, matches,
kitchenware and a stove.
It has been supposed that Norway
cannot compete with other countries
in horticulture. This supposition was
badly shaken at the agricultural expo
sition this fall. The weather had been
too wet and cold for garden plants,
but many gardeners made up their
minds to exhibit their best products
| anyway. Many Danes were also on
the grounds with their fruits, veget-
abies ana flowers, expecting an easy
! victory. But a surprise was in store
| for all parties The Norwegians not
only kept their ground, but in many
cases they easily excelled the Danes,
who had never imagined that Norway
! could produce such fine grapes,
peaches, apricots, pears, plums, toma-
toes, cucumbers, pumpkins, cabbage
and roots as those on exhibition, and
they declared emphatically that Nor
way has better soil than Denmal k
for such products.
Jon Lehman wrote a play called
sThe Monster" which was prohibited
by the censors because it scourged
the corruption in Russian official cir
! cles too mercilessly at time when
the governments of Germany anu Rus
STA were endeavoring to cultivate a
good feeling between the two con-
tries. The author took hold of his
work a second time and cut out the
Objectionable features, and now the
NAV has been endorsed by the cen.
/ sors.
/ Karasjok, settlement in the ex
IRENE north of Norway, was well rep
resented at the national exposition in
Kristiania. The agricultural products
/ we're chiefly turnips, rutabagas and
/ carrots, and several kinds of hay.
Fredrickstad has gone dry by q
vote Of 1888 to 1,400. Fredrikstad is
one Of the most typical manufac
/ turing cities Of Scandinavia, and the
result was surprise to the outside
world.
It is just so years since the Wtese
numbering firm at Fredrikstad was es
] taty'shed