The Bottineau courant., 1907-12-06
DENMARK,

DENMARK.
An eighteen month-old stallion
raised in Denmark was recently sold
for about $4,000.
The Frankfurter Zeitung states that
Danish business men are going to
boycott the Germans in case the use
of the Danish language at meetings in
Germany is prohibited.
The Danish steamer Thor came
very near being struck by the ex-
plosion of the German schoolship
Blucher. If the explosion had oc-
Cured two minutes earlier everything
above the deck on board the Thor
would have been destroyed.
Copenhagen, Nov. 23.-America may
soon have the honor of the visit OF
the young Prince Erik, son of Prince
and Princess Valdemar, who wants to
visit the big farms of Minnesota, Da-
kOta and California, where so many
of his countrymen have settled. The
prince himself wishes to become
farmer in Denmark, and his parents,
who are very democratic in their
ideas, are only encouraging his per-
sonal inclinations.
The brewers of Copenhagen have
had a prosperous year. The execu-
tive committee of the United Brew
cries has proposed to the stockhold-
ers' meeting that $14S,500 of the
profits for the past year be added
to the reserve fund, that $4,000 be
contributed to the aid and pension
fund of the employees, and that the
stockholders receive 8 per cent as
dividends.
FINLAND.
At the expense of the Russian gov.
eminent the Countess Cronhjelm of
Helsingfors, Finland, who is govern
ment inspector of all the life-saving
stations in Finland, will visit America
to see the life-saving stations along
the Atlantic coast. The countess, who
for some time has been at Skagen,
Denmark, to watch the practice of the
life-savers, goes to Holland, Belgium,
France and England, where she will
take passage for the United States.
SWEDEN.
Several large business firms have
failed this fall.
A number of business concerns
failed during the early part of No
vember on account of the tightness
of the money market.
The national government of Swe'
den has bought the waterfalls at Hjuls'
mas, Flobo.la and Traheryd in Laga
river, Southern Sweden, for about
100000.
The Swedish press is still discus
sing the Norwegian treaty Of integ
rity which the great powers signed
The Swedes generally maintain that
the Norwegians did not act with prop
er tact in this matter, and some for
eign newspapers agree with them.
Stockholm, Nov. 24.-The Nobel
prize for chemistry will be awarded
to Sir William Crookes of London
Sir William Crookes discovered thalli
um, an element in 1861 and invented
the raiometer in 1874. He was knight
ed in 1897 and has been closely iden
titled with many Of the most import
ant advances in science. Prof
Crookes recently discovered a pro
cess of extracting nitric acid from
the atmosphere, which it was an
nounced, will soon be available fol
commercial, industrial and agricultural
purposes and will revolutionze the
nitrate industry and the worlds fooe
! problem. Rudyard Kipling has beer
designated for the literary prize.
The public high schools for boys
have received $36O,OO0 as donations
since 1876. The proceeds from these
! donations have been given to the stu
kGents exclusively as fellowships, prizes
and other forms of aid.
The master tailors' union of Swe
den was refused admission to tn
Swedish. employers union because th'
laws of the latter exclude persons ant
J firms employing less than ten per
sons.
The ITO porcelain factory recent,
sent consignment weighing thre
hundred tons to Japan.