Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-07-02
NORWAY.

name, and no one else being heard
from.
NORWAY.
A recent conflagration destroyed the
venerable church at Tune near Sarps-
borg. The fire occurred in the night
and was probably caused by tramps
Tune church was one of the old land
marks, originally built in 1880, and
rebuilt in 1864.
Mr.. Navelsaker, manager Of Totes
Gave, the reform school for boys.
which was partly burned down by the
boys short time ago, was often cruel
to the boys, and prominent man
once called him the incarnation Of
corporal punishment"
For the first time Norway is to take
part in the great Cowes yacht race. A
new boat is being built, men Of
means having come to the front with
contributions. While the sport has
been developed to a considerable ex-
tent, measured by national or even
Scandinavian standards, it remains to
be seen how Norwegians will stand in
a match of such Importance as this.
At least, everything is being done to
show that the Norwegians now, as for
centuries, know how to handle boat
as we'll as anybody else-if not better.
A landslide occurred in Norangda-
len, Sondmore, about three weeks ago.
A mass of rocks and earth slipped
down from Mount Kjeipen and formed
a sort of causeway across the valley.
The depth of the mass is 1875 feet at
the bottom of the valley, and its width
Is 1000 feet at the foot. The dust
raised by the landslide spread like a
fog over the surrounding country The
river was damned up, and a lake is
forming above the landslide. Many
pasture huts are under water The
water will back up about mile before
1t rises high enough to flow over the
embankment. The tourist road thru
the valley must be changed on account
of the rising water.
The resolve of the Norwegian stor-
thing to create commission to con-
slider the separation of church and
state is a momentous move. The
storthing is to name five of it's own
members and the king is to name
four others. Since 1887 the Lutheran
church in Norway has been part of
the state: 1t is administered thru a
department of the ministry, which
also has educational matters IN
charge. The bishops and priests are
paid partly by the government and
partly from tithes and ground rents
on former church property. Almost
all the people of Norway are, at least
nominally, members of the state
church. The tendency of recent
years has been to put the churches on
a self-supporting basis. The storthing
now means to see whether a divorce
can be safely accomplished.
M. Hansen, Norwegian scholar,
has attracted worldwide attention by
an effort to throw light on the pre-
historic inhabitants of Europe and
their connection with the Europeans
of our day. It struck him that so
many names of lakes, rivers and
mountains in northern Europe have
baffled all attempts at an etymologi-
cal explanation, and further that the
language of the ancient Etrurians of
Italy seems to be isolated from all
other languages. He commenced to
work on new theory, namely, that a
prehistoric race had been partly ex-
terminated, partly crowded out by the
Mongols (Finns), Celts and Teutons at
a very remote period-the race which
he assumed would most naturally
have been crowded eastward through
northern Russian and Siberia. While
looking around for proof of his theory
he actually found a small, isolated
tribe in Siberia, which he exploits
with the aim of proving that it's an
cestors inhabited northern Europe and
gave the present names not only to
places, lakes, rivers, etc, but also to
very many objects connected with or
binary life. The comparisons which
he makes to show the similarity be
tween Germanic words and words
used by the Etrurians and the tribe
found by him in Siberia, are ingenious
but to the ordinary reader they really
seem to be too far-fetched to consti
tute a proof Of his theory. 4
Fran, the well-known ship which
was built for Fridtjof Nanson's NORTH
pole expedition, and which Capt. Otto
Sverdrup used for his trip to the re
gion west Of Greenland, may possibly
be used for a third expedition. Capt
Roald Amundsen is now staying a
Horton, where the Fran is kept. i
he thinks the ship can stand thu
strain he is going to use it for the new
polar expedition for which he il max
ing preparations. 3s
Kristiania had . population Of 5281,
687 Feb. i, 1908, 90 against 229, 1874 On,
year previously.