Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-09-23

by . unanimous vote, to request the
local lecture bureau not to engage
speakers who are known to be hostile
to the Christian religion and national
patriotism.
Baron G. W. Leuhusen of Stock
holm, has celebrated a semi-centen-
NAL jubilee which is supposed to break
all records. On Sept. 10 it was so
years since he was made a member
of the highest court of Sweden. Baron
Leuhusen was born July 80, 1912.
The waves from passing steamer
filled heavily loaded ferry at Skopps-
dal, near Stockholm, with water, and it
sank almost at once A lot of domes-
tic animals easily swan to the shore,
but the passengers were far worse off.
A number of men rOwed to the scene
of the disaster and succeeded in saw
ing all except two brothers, jaime
and Gustaf Jansson, who went to the
bottom almost Immediately after the
accident.
Simla, Sept. 14.-Dr. Sven Hedin.
the explorer, who started in 1906 from
Chinese Turkestan on a journey
through Thibet, and concerning whose
whereabouts there was great anxiety
for many months, has arrived here.
He will be the guest of Lord Mimic,
the viceroy of India, for ten days, when
he will proceed to his home in Stock
holm. The explorer. looks thin and
weather beaten, but he said he never
felt better in his life He did not
suffer a days illness during his two
years travels, and had no occasion
to use medicine. He travelled 1000
miles or more, mainly in Western
Thibit, and Gid not see a white face
until he reached the province of
Pobo. Dr.. Hedin said that he made
valuable discoveries, but that there
was still room in Thibet for future ex-
plOrers.
Among the French journalists who
visited Sweden some time ago was NJ.
Babin. Writing down his impressions.
Mr.. Babin dwells upon the charms of
the Lapp spring and the celebration
of midsummer at Stockholm. He
says: 1--WE must love Sweden very
much as she is grand and gains our
irresistible love. Also because there
is much of likeness between her we'll
cultured people and our own-a spirit
ed, imaginative intelligence, an ad-
mirable capacity to enjoy all the forms
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the masterworks of art. They have
kept undiminished this choice urban
ity which, according to the assertions
OF ill-pleased observers, should tend to
disappear from our own boundaries.
Her people is chivalrOus- is al
most no people in history more so than
this and our own people, who for a
number of centuries have had the
heroic folly to fight without a thought
of their own advantage, for great ideas,
for only pleasure and for the honor"
NORWAY.
Queen Alexandra and Princess Vic
toria have paid a visit to the Nor
wegian court.
The private theological seminary in
Kristiania was formally dedicated
Sept. 8. The dedication address was
made by Premier Church Minister
Chr. Knudsen.
Many Norwegian distillers have de-
cided not to open their distilleries this
year on account of hostile legislation.
Some of them wish the state to take
charge of their business and run it as
government monopoly.
Over 100000 Norwegian copies of
the literary works or the late Jonas
Lie have been sold. Many of his
novels have been translated into near.
ly all the languages Of Europe, and
the total number of copies must ex-
coed one million.
The board of education of Gausdal,
Bjornstjerne Bjornson's home, decided
by unanimous vote to use pure Nor
wegian instead of the Norwegian-Dan-
ish book-language in the schools. AS
soon as Bjornson found out what had
been done he returned home from
Rome, and though he is rs years Olu
he made one of the most powerful
speeches of his life. He defended the
Intentional book-language against the
attempts to ''foist a western dialect
upon the Norwegian people," and he
was vigorously applauded by a very
large audience.
DR.. Konrad Nielsen is writing a
Lappish dictionary. The Lapps of
northern Scandinavia speak several
dialects, and the new dictionary will
contain three typical dialects spoken
in northern Norway. DR.. Nielsen keeps
Lapp boy from Kautoke;no to assist
him, and boys from other localities
will be used in the same manner.
The Lappish words will be translated
into German and Hungarian, and the
dictionary will be published by the
Hungarian academy of sciences at
Budapest. The Hungarian and Fin.
nish languages are closely related to
each other, and Hungarian linguists
are particularly interested in DR.. Mel.
sens work.
The whaling and hunting expedi.
tons to Spitzbergen were generally
successful this year. So many live
white bears were caught that the mar.
ket price has dropped, and live wal.
russes cost only half as much rs they
did few years aga.
Ex-Premier Michelsen's health is i'm.
proving, and many of his friends would
like to have him re-enter politics as a
member of the storting. So far he has
not consented to run.