Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-10-29
NORWAY

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NORWAY.
Johannes Reitan, of Kristiania, has
been connected with the telegraph
service for so years.
Musical entertainments are given
at most of the Kristiana playhouses
during the dreary fall season.
The city council of Kristiania voted
$4,000 to be used in preventing
cholera from entering the city.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson must stay In
bed for about two weeks on account
of inflammation of the blood vessels.
A paper mill at Bon, railway sta
ton not far from Kristiania, was COM
pletely burnt down. 1t was insured
for $156,000 in foreign companies.
Curl Bjornaasen, of Bergen, Viker-
about without aid, and, the strangest
of all, she can read without glasses.
Nils Collet Vogt, perhaps the great
est lyric poet in Norway at the pres
ent time, has written a magnificent
hymn to the month Of September. The
best composers are busy setting it to
music.
The Norwegian newspapers tell the
people that it is still difficult to get
work in America, and that no great
improvement is expected after the
presidential election. Don't go to
American" says great daily in dis
cussing this important question.
Bjornson's 76 years are telling on
him, and he must use a cane even
when he walks only few steps. A
few days ago he spoke at the students
union against the language reformers.
This subject keeps him in fighting
mood, but he kept his seat through
out his long address. I"
A landslide at Gudvangen covered
the shore at the landing place for a
distance of fifty yards. The noise
which the dirt and rocks made in
rushing down the mountain side was
understandable, and the current of air
set in motion was very violent. For
LuudLCly, III pCloOu AuppChCu w w
in the course of the avalanche.
A statute, Of Niels Henrick Abel,
the greatest mathematical genius OF
Scandinavia, was unveiled at, the uni.
versity, Oct. II, in the presence OF
! the king and great number Of other
| prominent men. A special cantata
written by Bjornson and set to music
! by Sinding was performed by a large
! orchestra and chorus, and addresses
were made by Prof. Morgenstierne
and Prof Brogger.
Prof. Oscar jaeger recently gave q
series of lectures on some Of the doc
trines of the orthodox church in the
students union, and the lectures were
printed in full in great daily. The
! orthodox people declared that the lee
lures would pass by without mucl
fuss. But for the time being, they are
eagerly discussed even by the com
| mon people. The author was careful
to quote only recognized authorities
| so that no one has a reason to accuse
him of unfaIness.
A seventy-year-old woman at Sol
berg, Maalselven, Finmarken, me
with terrible death. Her dress
caught fire from the stove, and wher
help arrived her clothing was burn
off her body, excepting a part of one
sleeve. Her body was one single
| burn, and during the two days tina
she lived after the accident she SUI
fered excruciating pain.
Some enterprising business me1
are thinking of making some arrange
ment for transporting fresh fish a
reduced rates from Nordland to Kris
tiania and other southern cities
When there is big catch of codfisi
in Lofoten the price on the fishing
grounds occasionally drops down tt
2-3 cents per fish, and at the same
moment the very same fish Nigh
fetch from 10 to IL cents in the south
| Indeed, there ought to be way o
cutting down this enormous margin
even though the distance by waite
| is almost one thousand English
miles.
An Ibsen document which has neve
been known to the public has jus
been dug up in the universit,
archives. It is an application mad
by him In 1857 for position as lee
turer on Scandinavian literature a
the university. The secretary Of tn
university, the late Chamberlain
Hoist, had written the following
words on the petition to explain it
fate: Ibsen is not matriculated be
cause his standing is pood in Cree
and arithmetic And so the poe
never became a professor.
/ An industrial exposition at Hama
revealed the fact that wood carvin
and other practical arts are in
much more fourishing condition
among the farmers Of northeaster
Norway than outsiders were aware Q
"A new church has been dedicate
at Rolvsoen, Fredrikstad. Bisho
j Bang preached the dedicatory sermon
and eleven ministers were presen
The new church IS built Of brick.