The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-11-22
NORWAY.

According to a well known cores
pondent, who writes from Christiania,
Norway is initiating the United States
in raising the cost of the necessaries
of life. He says:
I ".The kind of bread most commonly
used is the 20 ore Is 1.2-cent) loaf
(mixed). There is no standard weight
prescribed by law, but this kind of
bread had an average weight Of 1,146
grammes in 1905. The average weight
Is now but 1856 grammes, while the
price remains the same. According to
samples bought from twenty-five diff
ferent bakers in this city, there is
difference in weight of 81 per cent,
when the largest sample is taken as
unit, between the largest and the
smallest sample. In other words by
going to the baker selling the largest
loaf you get nearly 400 grammes more
of bread for your 20 ore than by buy
ing from his colleague selling the
smallest; loaf.
Cooke costs 20 ore more per hectic.
litre this year than last year. The
price of spool cotton, for instance, has
been raised 20 per cent. House rent
In Christiania has gone up 10 to IL
per cent since last year.
"The poor crops this year are to
great extent the cause of the high
prices of food products. The reports
from some districts are rather discour-
aging. From the district of Elverum
the report is that they will get hardly
any oats and about one-third or one
fourth of the usual yield of potatoes.
This failure of the oat crop will have
an influence on the lumber output, be-
cause large quantities of oats are used
as feed for the horses while working
in the woods during the winter, but
the price of oats is now % ore kilo,
and this fact will make lumber haul
ing Improbable work this winter,
which again is bound to lessen the out
put of forestry products, or else make
them more expensive.
CAS- to berries, will mention only
one example. The Norwegian cram
berries (tyttebaer) generally cost 12
to Is ore per litre. This year the
price is IS to 40 ore, and hardly any
to be had at that.
'The aforementioned difference in
the weight of bread, of the same kind
and at the same selling price, has
caused public clamor for the reform
that bread should be sold by weight
and not, as now, by the piece, and if
the majority of the bakers do not come
together and agree on standard-and
a higher standard as to weight-it is
likely that the weight system will
come into force"
Michael Ager, writing from Christi
ania in October, has the following
about another archaeological discovery
in Norway: - -
"At Jaederen, near Stavanger, some
very interesting relics from the stone
age have been unearthed lately. In
this case it is not a 'gravhaug' (an-
Gent burial place. that has been dis
those pioneer Norsemen as a dwelling
place. When the excavation shall
have been completed, which, however,
will not be before next spring, some
thing new will be learned of the mode
of life Of these people of prehistoric
time. Among the relics some human
bones have been found, and this fact
has led some people to the belief that
the first Norwegians had no objections
to feasting on the fat meat of such of
their neighbors as they happened to
be at outs with. Whether this be so
or not, has not yet been confirmed or
denied by scientists. Further investi-
cation may, however, throw further
light on the subject. The excavation
has been conducted by Mr.. Helliesen,
the conservator at the museum of
Stavanger.
What makes this find so exception
ally interesting is, that it is the first of
it's kind in Norway. What before have
been unearthed have been relics
found in graves, while this last find
consists of articles used in the home
by the living family. In Denmark
similar finds, the so-called 'Kjoekken-
moeddinger,' have been unearthed in
several places, however"
The city of Christiansund is expert
encing a house famine, due to the fact
that, while the population has in
creased the past few years, there have
been no building operations since
1897. During the years 1896 and 1897
the people seemed to be possessed of
a mania for building, SO that there
were more houses than were really
needed, and period of business de-
preston followed, with q consequent
decrease of the population, SO that
many residences stood vacant. The
result was a reaction against building
operations, and although. the hard
times have passed and the population
has of late years increased quite rap
idly, the people have not felt like put
ting up dwellings.
Johan Flottum, the wonderful boy"
gifted with second sight, will soon get
rich. "Nidares" is authority for the
statement that his income is from Is
to 60 crowns day. This money is
paid to him by people who want to