Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-21


There was no ice iefe IN the narbors
Of southern Sweden Feb. 20.
The government has decided to sta
ton the Kronoberg regiment at Vaxio.
The government has ordered two
f1rst-class torpedo boats at the Berg
sund iron works.
A society has been organized in
Ystad for the care of the antiquities
of the city and neighborhood.
Sufficient money has been subscribed
for the establishment of a peoples high
school near Tomelilla, Skane.
The Hjuleberg estate in the parish
of Arstad, Halland, has been sold to
tNlels Treschow, Astad, for 100000
The people Of Simrishamn and vicin-
ity are strongly in favor of starting a
line of automobiles between that place
and Kivik and Skillinge.
The Malmo Boat Club and the NAL
mo Gymnastic and Fencing Club have
commenced to raise funds for the erec-
ton of a monument of P. H. Ling, the
famous founder of the system of Swed-
ish gymnastics.
Brick tiles are gradually crOWding
out pine shingles as roofing for new
houses in southern Sweden The mod
ern brick tile is a better and more
durable article than the tile used be-
fore the railroads made it so easy to
obtain pine shingles from great dis
tances.
NORWAY.
Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer,
who accomplished the Northwest pas
sage in his forty-seven-ton Gjoa,
spending nineteen months Of his three
years voyage making observations in
the vicinity of the magnetic pole, has
been ionized in Paris. President Fall
Heres decorated the explorer a COM
mander of the Legion Of Honor
Amundsen delivered lectures before
the various scientific societies and gave
private talk upon his experiences for
the benefit Of Frances "forty immor-
tails" at the residence of Prince Ro-
land Bonaparte, who has recently been
elected to the institute.
"Nansen," says Amundsen, twas al
ways fascinated by the idea of the
Northwest passage, which had been at
tempted so many times and never
found. Yet I saw it opened before my
| ship the first year of my voyage, and
would not take advantage Of the
chance because my program was to
make observations at the magnetic
pole"
The pastor of a congregation in
Fimudeken was struck by the age of
a Lapp woman who came riding on her
skis down the mountain side to at
tend the Sunday services. He walked
| up to her and asked her how old she
| was. "One hundred years." she an
swered without the least hesitation.
The pastor told her that the Laps
who get somewhat aged find it an easy
matter to add enough to make a hun
dred years. But she insisted that she
was right and gave her name and
birth place, which was a neighboring
valley. Some time afterwards the pas
tor happened to pass through that par
| ticular valley, and by examining the
church books he found that the old
Lapp woman was right. He believes
| that a centenarian riding down the
mountains on skis the way she did is
an exceedingly rare phenomenon even
among the Lapps, who often seem to
be grown together with their skis.
The business men Of Hansesund
have invested $4,000, 900 in fishing YES
sells and fishing gear of different kinds
The reformed spelling introduced by
the Norwegian government is far
reaching. It would be useless to dis
cuss the new system in these columns;
but it may be said that its aim from
first to last is to make the spelling Of
each word agree as much as possible
with the most common pronunciation
of it. In very many cases IT" Is put
in place Of 3D." "r'' in place of "g'
and "p" in place Of "b." The reform
is we'll received in Sweden because it
means a movement from the Danish
towards the Swedish spelling. The re-
formers were not influenced by this
consideration; they simply followed the
trend of the Norwegian pronunciation,
which, in many instances, is nearer to
the Swedish than to the Danish.
Some one has proposed the abol-
ishment Of the national day Of prayer,
which is the fourth Friday after East
er Sunday. This matter was referred
to the congregations Of the country ten
years ago, but only surprisingly small
proportion of the congregations were
in favor Of abolishing that holiday, and
1T is claimed by the church people
that the sentiment has not changed
| much since that date.
| Sheriff Norheim, Of Thirne, began to
plant trees twenty years ago, and the
result was so encouraging that he has
planted $4,000 trees since that time
I'm place Of a dreary heath there is a
beautiful forest, and Norheim's ex-
ample has given the cause of forestry
great impetus in that part Of Nor
way.
The revival meetings conducted by
Barratt are still an object Of public
discussion. One Of the latest depart
ures is to have little girls stand and
speak 1 tongues" for hours in sue
cession. The movement is strongest
in Kristiania, Drammen, Skien and
Larvik.
1t is stated in the Norwegian dailies
that 22,239 persons emigrated from
Norway in 1905 as against 21,059 in
1905. This proves at least one thing:
"A king of Norway pure and sinn1e