Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-24
NORWAY.

The Norwegian newspapers have
raised their advertising rates.
Gold and silver have been found by
a Norwegian American at Sund.
South Berghenbusamt is going to
have an insane asylum Of it's own.
About 10000 ryper (ptarmigans)
We're caught in Sirdalen last winter.
The bequests made to public insti-
tutions in Bergen amount to 100000.
The pecuniary loss caused by the
snowslides at Gieranger was about S.
OO0
Bjornson has donated a bust Of the
late Alexander Kjelland to the city of
Molde.
Kaiser Wilhelm recently invited Ed
ward Grieg, the Norwegian composer,
to luncheon.
The net surplus of the Bergen Sam
lag (retail liquor company for the
year 1906 was 100000.
The Potsgound porcelain factory
gave it's proprietors per cent on their
investments for the year 1906.
A refrigerating plant for freezing
and preserving herring for fish bait
has been finished at Akrehavn.
The examinations for bachelors de-
grees will be taken by $50 persons this
year, as against SGT last year.
The Bergen steamship company is
going to keep three steamers on a
line between Bergen and Holland.
Considerable amounts Of money have
been raised for consumptives on the
Egra property, Flare, near Arendal.
Prof. L. Dietrichson has willed S16,-
900 to the University of Norway for the
advancement of historical research.
About 700 men are employed at
Odda, which means that the place will
have some 1000 inhabitants in few
years.
The king and queen of Norway are
going to make an official call on the
president of France May "a, and theil
stay in Paris will last two or three
days.
A Russian female anarchist entered
Norway in the far north. Two Rus
sion detectives were upon her heels,
but she passed south, through the
whole length Of the country, without
being caught by them.
Prof. Odland is in favor of a private
school for the education Of preachers,
but his more conservative friends hest
tate to take such a decisive step as to
cut loose from the university and es-
tablish an independent theological
seminary.
There is a steady increase in the
shipment of machinery to Kristiania,
which indicates that there is a change
for the better in the industrial life Of
the city. Many of the machines are
installed in old establishments, but
new factories are also opened from
time to time.
Stavanger has passed an ordinance
prohibiting the sale of all kinds Of
liquors on public market days. The
new ordinance was tried for the first
time this sNing. The police were
asked whether they noticed the
change. well, the Jail was empty
because there was no one to put into
it,
Bjornson wants Rev. Carl Konow to
remain in the state church. It may be
remembered that Konow, though a.
preacher in the state church at Bergen,
has announced beliefs which place
him among the Unitarians. Bjornson
thinks that since there is a state
church such a church ought to be
broad enough to comprise people Of
different religious views.
A motion to change the name Of
Kristiania to Oslo was voted down by
the city council of Kristiania, only 7
votes being cast in favor of the change.
Oslo is the ancient name. Early in the
seventeenth century the town was
burned down, and the new town was
named in honor of the king, Christian
Nv Of Denmark and Norway, an an
cestor of the present kings of Norway
and Denmark.
The Aamli scurch caught fire dur
ing a Sunday service, and only some
of the most valuable fixtures and other
objects were saved.
A new agricultural school will be
opened at Tandberg, Ringerike.
A minister who has studied the Bar
raft revivals claims that there is
'much conscious or unconscious hum
bug about the matter. Barratt him.
self, who is an Englishman by birth,
is the least sober of the whole lot.
It is proposed to laugh down. the
movement.
A new methodist church was dedi-
Gated at Porsgrund a short while ago.
The cost of the building was $4,000,
and it has a seating capacity Of $50.
The Frogner church building, KRIS
tiania, is the first edifice of its kind
erected in Norway during the reign
~ King HaakOn VII The inScr;ntions