Willmar tribune., 1908-10-14
SWEDEN.


There are $4,000 Freemasons in
Sweden.
Stockholm expended about $3,OOG,-
900 on public improvements in 1907
The milk -four factory at Eslof had
to be closed on account of overpro-
duction.
A pumpkin weighing IS pounds was
raised by Wilhelm Renner, a Malmo
gardener.
The London Times speaks very
highly of DR.. Sven Hedin's explora.
tions in Tibet.
The traffic on the state railways
was tri1e heavier in July this year
than last year.
OF the 266 Swedish students who
received their degrees so years ago
no less than los are still living.
The steamers of the Gotta canal
company carried 5000 foreign tour
lists last summer. Ten years ago this
line carried only 1000 passengers dur
ing the season.
The work accomplished by the
Swedish expedition which spent the
warm season in surveying Spitzber-
gen is highly creditable to the scien-
lists who were at the head of the
expedition.
A Swedish engineer residing at
Stockholm is at the head of number
of men who intend to make Trond-
hjem the center of the distribution
of fresh Lofoten fish to all parts of
Scandinavia. AS starter he pro-
poses to handle 1000 tons a year.
Prof. N. H. Nilsson, of Svalof, has
been engaged by an agricultural So
ciety in Holland to give a series of
lectures on the work which the
Swedes are doing in the line of i'm.
proving some of the most important
food plants. This work is attracting
much attention in foreign countries.
The Swedish department was the
only one which was perfectly ready
to receive the public at the opening
of the arts and industrial exposition
in ST. Petersburg This gave the
Swedish industries a vast advantage,
for the exhibits themselves were "the
gem of the whole exposition" The
newspapers. willy nilly, had to COM
ment on the Swedish department
from the start because that was the
only one that could be judged with
any show of fairness as long as the
departments of the other nations
were incomplete. And the comments
of the newspapers could not we'll have
been more flattering. The st. Peters
burg Zeitung, the organ of the dip
lomats and of Russian swelldom in
general, points out with emphasis
that the wealthy people of Russia
should look at the industrial products
of Sweden before they furnish their
elegant homes. The Swedish manu-
facturers are, of course, highly elated
over these results.
The landsting Qegislature) Of Hol-
land has appointed a committee to
report on plan to build a tubercu-
losis hospital with 80 beds and at a
cost of $4,000, in Stenhult park.
Harald Funck, an engineer, has do
mated $4,000 to the Stockholm high
school for the establishment of a bio
chemical department in connection
with the organic laboratory.
The revenues of the government
have fallen of about 100000 from the
beginning Of the year as compared
with the figures for the same period
last year.
The Social Democrats kept their
ground remarkably we'll during the
recent elections, and also made some
headway. The party organization
paid the taxes Of hundreds of poor
citizens in order that they might be
entitled to vote.
Swedish singers and musicians are
going to give a number of purely
Swedish concerts In some large Ger.
man cities. QueeA Victoria IL sup.
porting this move.
The armored cruiser Fylgia win
make an extended cruise next win.
ts7. going o. far as Buenos Ayres.