Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-12
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The city council of Trondhjem has
resolved to furnish free text books to
the pupils of the public schools.
1t is mentioned as a curiosity that
Kaiser Wilhelm has placed an order
for steam engine and a dynamo for
a steamboat with a Norwegian manu-.
facturer. The machines are also 60
ing to be mounted by Norwegian
WOrkmen.
An English syndicate spent over
100000 in testing the ore of some
mines at JOranrud, and now the whole
plant has been offered to Norwe-
gian for $62,100. which demonstrates
that some Englishmen do not get
rich in Norway.
Ivar Mortenson is rapidly coming to
the front as dramatic writer And
he uses pure" Norwegian, squirming
and wriggling to get away from the
traditional Norwegian-Danish book
language. His admirers go so far as
to call him Norway's greatest living
poet.
The government bought the tele
phone system OF Drammen and vicin.
ity short while ago. Immediately
the rates We're raised, and great
number of subscribers have notified
the government that they can no
longer afford to keep up their tele-
phone connections.
The community of Barum has pass
ed drastic ordinances for preventing
boys from smoking. No child below
the age of Is is allowed to buy to-
bacco in any form, and public officials
shall seize tobacco, cigars or cigar.
cites found in the possession of chill
dren at public places.
A. NJ. Feragen's arithmetic was used
in the public schools all over Norway
40 years ago. This is a we'll known
fact. But it is not so we'll known
that the man is still teaching two
hours q day at Tvedestrand He is
80 years old, but he looks 20 years
younger than he really is.
Norman Isles, a Norwegian freight
steamer, which was grounded in the
bay Of Alden, and which was practi-
cally without any means of defense
except one revolver, was boarded by
thousands of Somali negroes, who
carried away about $500 tons of val,
ualble goods. The captain and the
crew were not injured The maraud-
ers are subjects of Italy,
The Norwegian storting rejected by
a vote of 81 to So a proposition to
change the constitution so as to pre-
vent the king from comforting deco
rations of honor upon foreign or Nor.
wegian citizens. A motion to pass
law regulating the acceptance of for
eign decorations by Norwegian citi-
zens was also defeated. A motion to
stop the granting of decorations to
Norwegian citizens was defeated by
Ga votes
About 1000 tons of kelp is produced
in southwestern Norway every year.
This article is the ashes of certain
kind of seaweed of the same name.
The commercial value of the annual
output is about $4,000. Experiments
made at the Bergen fisheries station
have led to the discovery of new
method of burning the kelp by which
a certain amount of seaweeds will
produce more than twice as much kelp
as the old method.
A burial mound found in Bretagne,
France. was supposed to date from
the Viking age, and Prof. Gabriel Gus
tafsOn was sent down there to make
thoro study Of the matter. He soon
ascertained that a Viking had been
buried there and that tho his ship and
equipment had been burnt at the time
of the burial many objects had resist
ed the efforts of the sacred fire, and
remains of the ship and the man
were found under the mound. The
most interesting objects found were
gold ring, many shield plates, ar
rows, some bronze and iron vessels,
only parts remaining. Some silver
trimmings and number of damaged
articles puzzled the experts. The
most remarkable objects are some
blacksmiths' tools. The collection is
an unprecedentedly large one. Two
persons seem to have been burnt.
The find is supposed to date from the
ninth century. It is barely possible
that the man who was buried there
had been a colonist-the son of a
Norwegian father and a Bretagne
mother.
Prof. Yngvar Nissen and Prof. AL
exander Bugge represented Norway
at the worlds historical congress in
Berlin. Both of them made addresses.
So many bottles are smashed after
their contents have been drunk in the
vicinity of Kristiania that the habit
has become real nuisance.
1t is IS years since Vadso received
its charter as town. The town has
about 1000 inhabitants, of whom 1,1OO
are Norwegians and 900 Laplanders.
Large contracts have been let for
granite which is to be exported from
Smaalenene to England.
The sealing vessels which have re-
turned from the Arctic ocean made a
big haul. A vessel from Aalesund
brought back four live white bears
and one live walrus.
The storting has appropriated ST.
900 for the establishment of a normal
school for persons who wish to teach
cooking in the public schools.
The strawberry crop was q large
one. and strawberries were retailed at