Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-23
NORWAY.

Kristian Aasland, a farmer near
Stavanger, has been judge of awards
at the agricultural fairs of his district
for twenty-five years.
The proposition of the medical as
ISOLATION to establish 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 a 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
start. The old barracks will be used
free of charge, and the state will be
asked to contribute certain amount
each year to the running expenses.
Emil Knudson, a 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
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 a 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 Crozet island in the In
dian ocean the shipwrecked crew
used the stores placed at depot on
the island by the British government
81 years ago. The department of
commerce of the Norwegian govern
ment has made arrangements for re-
| placing the stores that were used up
in a case of extreme distress. No
meat or meat products will be trans
ported to the island, which is teeminA
with game of different kinds. Tho
rifles, 1000 cartridges, 20 pounds OF
tea, 80 pounds of coffee, 400 pounds
of bread, 80 pounds of wheat -four.
100 pounds of rice, fishlines, matches,
kitchenware and a stove.
1t has been supposed that Norway
cannot compete with other countries
in horticulture. This superstition 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-
ables and flowers, expecting an easy
victory. But 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,
toes, cucumbers, pumpkins, cabbage
and roots as those on exhibition, and
they declared emphatically that Nor.
way has a better soil than Denmark"
for such products.
Karasjok, a settlement in the ex-
IRENE north of Norway, was well rep.
resented at the national exposition in
Kristiania. The agricultural products
were chiefly turnips, rutabagas and
carrots, and several kinds of hay.
Fredrickstad has gone dry by a
vote of 1888 to 1,4O0. Fredrikstad is
one of the most typical manufac.
turing cities of Scandinavia, and the
result was surprise to the outside
world
1t is just so years since the Wiese
numbering firm at Fredrikstad was es
tablished.
At Mellemrogden, a small neighbor
hood at Finskog, southeastern Nor
way, are four women whose ages
range from 80 to 81 years, havins
been born in 1910, 1912, 1915 and
1917, respectively.
/ The late Anders T. Jangvat willet
his estate in CYL, Tngvold commune
Nordmore, to the poor people Of the
neighborhood, who receive no publ.
aid. The bequest is IS, 900.
I. Gloersen, wine merchant, dice
J from heart failure during Sunda,
service in Our Saviour's church, Kris
tiania.
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