Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-31
SWEDEN.

countries Of northern Europe whose
rulers are taller than their wives.
Gustaf Slackig, of Filipstad, be-
queathed $4,000 to the sewing depart
ment Of the public schools of this
city.
J. Bryntesson, of Gothenburg, has
donated $2,100 to the Swedish Mission
Covenant to be devoted to the China
and Alaska missions.
The Skane infantry regiment is to
be stationed at Lund, not at Karls
krona, but the latter place will have
a battalion of Skane hussars.
Copenhagen, July 1S.-Fourteen per-
sons are reported to have been
drowned at Marstrand, Sweden, by the
capsizing of a sailboat Only one of
the party escaped.
The tourist trains running from
Stockholm to northern Sweden and
finally to Narvik, Norway, are crowd
ed this summer, and occasionally ex-
| ira cars must be used
Two Stockholm banks, Skandina-
viska Kreditaktiebolage and Industri-
| kreditaktiebolaget have been consoli-
dated into one, and the new bank will
| have eight offices in Stockholm
The German agricultural society has
published an illustrated account of the
Svalof nursery, and it will be printed
in the leading agricultural journals of
| Germany. This arrangement clearly
| indicates the standing of the foremost
| seed-raising establishment, of Scandi-
navia.
Two letters were sent from SkanOr
to SWedes in Mexico July p, 1876.
But on account of political troubles in
Mexico the letters never reached the
addresses, and they were returned to
the writer's, who received them in the
| early part of July, 1907-almost thir-
ty-one years afterwards.
Some young Socialists went to a
farm in Ostergotland to do a little
work for their propaganda among the
farm laborers. They met a bull in
red badges he became furious so that
they had to run for their lives After
the battle they concealed their badges
and the bull let them pass without
making any more fuss.
A few representative Swedes at
tended the agricultural exposition in
Kristiania, but they were there as
private persons, not as Swedish rep
resentatives. One of them, Prof.
Juhlin-Dannfelt, was interviewed for
Norwegian daily, and he made a
comparison between Sweden and Nor
way with regard to farming. But the
Swedish press states in plain language
that the Swedish nation does not en-
dorse everything said by. the professor
in his interview.
An interesting antiquarian find has
been made which seems to prove the
truth of a legend which has been kept
alive in Offerdal, Jemtland, for about
800 years. About three feet under the
surface close to a lake shore, a we'll
preserved canoe was found. Accord
ing to the legend a man living at
Skarlslogden had sunk a copper ket-
tie containing his valuables and also
a canoe in the lake where the canoe
was found. Time and again people
have searched for the treasures, and
the story never passed out of the
minds of the people of the locality.
Now that the canoe has been found
fresh search will no doubt be start
ed for the recovery of the copper ket-
tie and it's precious contents.
Almost one third of the factory
hands of Sweden are women. They are
most numerous in the textile indus
tries, where there are two women for
every man. Almost Is per cent of
all the women employed in factories
are less than IS years old.
The 2OOth anniversary Of the estab-
lishment of the Ramlosa watering
place, near Helsingborg, was celebrated
July 20. Many prominent men, in
GLIDING the Duke of Skane. were pres
| ent.
The clover fields of southern Swe-
den gave a rich crop, but other kinds
of grass are rather below the aver
age.
DR.. Juhlin, member of the cabinet,
is visiting the great railway stations
in Germany for the purpose of gath
ering information which may be Of
value in the construction of new rail-
way buildings in several of the larg-
est cities of Sweden.
The farm laborers' unions are about
to join the Social Democratic labor
union, and as soon as this conso!ida-
ton is effected it is feared that strikes
will be started in the rural districts.
Wedin & Ramstedt, Stockholm, ship
owners, are engaged in organizing a
steamship line between Sweden and
Iceland, the first steps having been
IN ken Inv the IcelanderS