The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-01-23
NORWAY.
Chrtstiana.


The following item has caused pro-
found interest among Norwegian
women and has caused no end of com.
ment among the women suffrage lead
ers OF the country: 1.-The presence OF
women as members Of the landtdag Of
Finland is watched with interest. No
less than tWenty-seven women have
been appointed as members of commit
tees. Some of them were appointed
either because they are women or on
account of vacancies, and in a few
cases they are evidently unfit for the
positions which they occupy. This
will place the women in an awkward
position and give their opponents a
chance to point to their unfiness for
legislative work. All the bills intro.
duced by women refer to the interest
Of women and children in social, edu.
cational and other problems of an
ethical nature. One of the bills pro.
vides for changing the age Of consent
from fifteen to eighteen years."
Consul Selmer's beautiful country
home, Overvig in the vicinity of
Rauheim, about five English miles
from Trondhjem, was totally destroyed
by lire last week. An old servant
named Karen Snustad was suffocated
by the smoke, and an eleven-year-old
child was saved by being thrown out
of window at the very last moment.
1t was entirely uninjured. The loss
iS 0c,+i +o1 Of oh
crowns. The origin of the fire is I'M
known
The Christiania Morgenposten has
proposed that the Nobel peace prize be
awarded only once in five years and
that the money intended for the other
prizes be used for the establishment of
permanent international court of ar.
bitration III Christiania. This has
aroused general Indignation in Sweden
and it is only the beginning OF a
series Of petty squabbles which will
be inaugurated between the two coun.
tries at no distant date.
Christiania has during the pas,
month entertained a large number of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., who came
home to spend Christmas and New
Years. They have been here in large
numbers and all seem to have enjoyed
their visit. The mail and post money
order receipts from America has also
been unusually heavy this year.
That Ex-Premier Nicholson is held
in great esteem in Norway is evinced
by the fact that the fund which is to
be raised in his memory already
amounts to $4,000. This amount has
been raised in Bergen alone and it is
estimated that Christiania will raise
at least $4,000.
Emperor William has ordered a
number of cottages of peasant design
which he proposes to erect about his
new castle in Schleswig A repre-
sentative of the emperor was recently
in Norway to take the order and make
arrangements for their TRANSFORMATION
to Germany
Statsminister Richter has left q
sealed package of memoirs with or
ders that they should not be published
until after King Oscars death. As
the great Swedish king is now dead
these memoirs will most likely soor
be published.
The first session of the storthine
was held Jan. II. The sitting was
brief and informal, as the ceremonial
opening by King Haakon did not take
place until Jan. IS. NJ. Berner was re-
elected president and NJ. Knudsen vice
president.
Oven Guide, who was recently an.
pointed Norway's minister at Washing
ton to succeed the late Ministe,
Hauge, will assume his duties at til,
American capital April 1.
The Oplandske Credit bank is erect
ing $4,000 crown building in Hamar
which it is expected will be completed
before May l.
The widow of the late Consul Bors
has donated 10000 crowns to Bergen's
new library building.