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

NORWAY.
The Bank of Norway raised the rate
of discount Nov. 9 from to 6h per
cent.
Rev. E. Swerdrup is going to write
articles on church matters for a lead
ing newspaper.
A boy at Rognan, Saltdal, went out
hunting alone, and as he did not re-
turn it is supposed that he lost his
life.
A newspaper claims that a foreign
iron trust is behind Consul Pehrson,
the Swede who has been permitted to
operate certain iron ore beds in Rust
vangen.
Misses Anna and Augusta Sorensen.
who had millinery store in build
ing which was burned down in the
night in Kristiansund, lost their lives
in the flames. The total damage
caused by the fire was $4,000. -.
When the Gydendal Publishing COM
pany of Copenhagen bought out the
strongest publishing company in Nor.
way many Norwegians were dis
pleased. Now the Gydendal company
is willing to sell out the Norwegian
branch to Norwegians, but the Nor
wegian poets think the present ar
rangement is satisfactory.
o. Banst and wife, nee Vik, of Hor-
ten, celebrated their diamond wed.
ding Nov. 7. Mr.. Banst descended
from German family that immigrated
to Norway in the seventeenth cen.
tury, and he was born at Brularas in
1922. His wife was born one year
later in Trondhjem, and they were
married in Borre church Nov. Z, 1847.
Mr.. Banst worked in machine shops
during his early life, and afterwards
he followed the sea. He has witnessed
collisions and shipwrecks on several
occasions. It is fourteen years since
he withdrew from active life.
A farmer near Stavanger lost steer
in an unaccountable manner. When
several weeks had passed he wrote to
Johan Flottum, the clairvoyant boy
at Singsaas, near Trondhjem, and a
little later he received the following
laconic answer: "Never mind the loss
of the steer, he will soon come back. 3"
And shortly afterwards the steer was
found standing at the stable door as
If nothing had happened.
Vigeland's famous drinking fountain
is to be put up at Eidsvold's Plads, a
public square in Kristiania. The
fountain will cost little over $685.
1o%o in, fc
proper position. About 100000 has
been raised by private subscription,
the Kristiania samlag (retail liquor
company has contributed $4,000, and
the city council has taken steps to
provide for the payment of the bal
ance.
A bran new political party has been
launched in Norway. It's name is "The
Norwegian Church Party" and it's aim
is to protect the Christian faith &C
cording to the Evangelical Lutheran
creed" The language Of the platform
does not clearly indicate what the new
party proposed to do with the state
church. Most of the officers elected
are ministers or school teachers, and
the first chairman of the executive
committee is Dean Hartvig Halvorson
of hristiania. This party may soon
cause a readjustment of the old party
lines, which, however, are not marked
at the present time.
Two students from Kristiania who
have been exploring the Himalaya
& mountains reached an elevation Of
$4,000 feet. At first they made an
attempt to get much higher, but failed
| The second time they were accom-
! panied by 80 coolies, and the above
! record is good one.
! The church department. is consid
ering a proposition to change the
names of the ecclesiastical divisions
| Of the country.
Small Goldfish are abundant in the
!, fjords of southwestern Norway, but II
! Is difficult to catch them.