Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-10-03
DENMARK.

been in the past.
DENMARK.
The fuel problem has become SO
important that the authorities have
collected materials for ascertalnlng
the volume of peat in the boys of
Denmark. A general estimate puts
the area of the boys at 100000 acres
and the peat that may be used for
fuel at 3OO,O00,000 tons. This is equal
to about 150,00O,000 tons of coal. If
Denmark reduces her coal import to
one-half, and uses peat in place OF the
other half, her peat boys will last
SO years. More exact investigations
will soon be made.
Cooperation (Samvirke) is the
name of new society which has
for it's aim to make the common peo-
pie understand that farming and man.
ufacture, the city and the rural pop
ulation are mutually dependent upon
each other, and that it is for the ben
eft of both to try to work in har'
mony.
There are 1892 church buildings in
Denmark, one-seventh of that number
have been built since 1860. In Copen-
hagen IS new churches have been
built since 1860, and three more are
in course of construction.
SWEDEN.
No less than 244 German physicians
visited Stockholm in body.
The national museum has bought
three of Bruno Liljefors' paintings for
$500.
Eugene Won Rosen of Orbyhus has
been made a knight of the Prussian
order of st. John by Kaiser Wilhelm.
Inquiries are said to have disproved
the statement that Russian spies have
been operating at the Boden fortifl-
cations.
The government has been requested
to mediate between the striking farm
laborers and their employers in south
ern Sweden.
Work will soon be started on the
Hoganas and Molle railway, and it is
calculated that it will take only six
months to complete the whole line.
The medical director of Norway has
proposed the establishment of an asy-
lum for iralr:ates in the barracks va
Gated at t'.a former Notifications at
Orje.
The Swedish press has sounded a
note of warning against pamphlet
published in Swedish by the state OF
Louisiana for the purpose of attract
ing Swedish emigralts.
Frof. Edward Brown of Reading,
England, the worlds foremost author
ity on poultry raising, was so i'm
pressed with the results obtained by
the egg producers of southern Sweden
that he spent a week among the lead
ing poultry breeders of that part
of the country.
Sergeant Under proved to be re-
markably agile horseman at the Ystad
horse races. Sergeant Ahmfelt was
thrown from his horse, but his horse
kept on running. Sergeant Linder's
orse was getting tired and dull, aid
quick as an arrow he jumped from his
own horse onto Ahmfelt's horse and
reached the goal as number three. He
did not claim any prize on accoun,
of the unusual circumstances, but ne
will surely be rewarded in some way
for his unusual feat.
A gasoline stove tipped over or
board the school marine ship Najade1
u the middle of a stormy night, ant
in an instant the floor of the gun room
was partly covered with burning
gasoline. An energetic fight wa:
started. For time the flames made
such Roadway that the commands
VAS thinking of running the vesse
| asHor. to save the lives of the men
b, the flames were finally subduet
I out any great damage to the yes
-
Countess de Casa Miranda (Kris
IRA Wilsson) has been sick abed a
).cr birthplace, Gardsby. Her hear
= affected.
G.. A. LARSON and J. E. Johnson
were so terribly burned by steam
from a bursting pipe at the Domnar
ircn works, Falun, that they died a.
most instantly, and three others Wer
badly scalded.
Seamen are so scarce in Stockholm
that the ship owners experience grea
difficulty in manning their ships. Thl
is partly due to the high wages pre-
vailing in the different trades.
No less than 1872 young men apple
for admission to the Malmo hlg
school of technology, while there ar
accommodations for only 125.