Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-05
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Court Chaplain Herman had an at
tack of heart disease, and he will be
bedriGden for some time.
Some Swedish newspapers have
contained a recipe for remedy for
particular firm was mentioned the
readers looked upon it as the work
of some pure, charitable soul. At the
same time, however, a London firm
offered to sell certain drugs mentioned
in the recipe to the drug stores of the
neighborhood. But the druggists re-
vealed the whole scheme to the pub
lie, and the London firm will have to
invent some new method of coming
money on Swedish credibility.
Alfred Person, an employe at the
Hemsjo electric power station, in
Barbacka, near Kristianstad, came
too close to an electric wire, and a
spark passed from the wire to his
head and from his feet to an iron
beam on which he was standing. The
spark was so large that the room was
lighted by it for a. brief moment, and
the force of the current was esti-
mated at $1,000 volts. Persons head
and feet were badly burned, but he
did not lose his life. which is supposed
to have been due to the fact that
the connection was broken at once by
his fall 1t usually takes only about
5000 volts to kill a grown person.
Several Swedish cities of medium
size have made some interesting ex-
periments in disposing of their garb-
age. The main point of interest is the
utilization of the kitchen offal. AS
soon as load arrives at the garbage
81 alton all parts containing foodstuffs
of any kind are dumped on table,
and everything that may be used as
hog feed is sorted out, particular pains
being taken to remove all bits of
glass and all remains of herring, the
former being apt to cut the intestines
of the hogs, and the latter giving
disasreeable favor to the pork. When
the feed has been sorted out it is all
boiled in large tanks, with plenty of
water added to it. The next step is
to add bran until the mixture attains
the desired consistency, after which
it is fed to the hogs. The city of
Eskilstuna, for instance, which has
about $4,000 inhabitants, always keeps
from $50 to 900 hogs which are fed
largely on city garbage. Hogs fed
on Eskilstuna garbage have the repu-
tation of being strong and healthy,
and pigs sold when they are from
one to two months old, constitute the
most profitable part of the garbage
business. In 1906 the city cleared
$4,000 on hogs raised in this manner,
and half a dozen other cities which are
utilizing their garbage in the same
way are making it a financial success.
In Karlskrona it has been found that
q hog can live on what is thrown
away from the kitchens of so pe-sons.
and it is estimated that the garbage
wasted in Swedish cities and towns
might be turned into more than H.
900, 900 pounds Of pork year.
L. o. Smith, Swedish wholesale
merchant whose name is known far
beyond ssthe confines of Sweden, re-
turned from abroad short while ago,
and now he is very sick man.
It is proposed to add the parish of
Skon, Alnas and Timra to the city of
Sdhdsvall, increasing the population
to more than 10000.
The French government is going to
put up building for the French lega-
ton in Stockholm.
A winter sanatorium at Morseberg
which costs $62, 900 has just been dedi-
Gated.
It has been demonstrated that it
pays to raise sugar beets in Vestergot-
land; but the farmers are so con-
sentative that they do not raise
enough beets to keep the sugar fac
tory at Lidkoping in operation dur
ing the whole season.
A jewish colony in Lund is making
living by peddling contrary to law.
Fines cannot stop their traffic, and
more drastic means may be resorted
to.
Bishop Billing of Lund has again
consented to accept seat in the first
chamber Of the riksdag.