Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-08-13
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Tho city council Of Trondh1em has
resolved to furnish free text books to
tho pupils OF the public schools. : NJ
The labor conflict in the b ilding
trades in Kristiania has been settled.
About 600 men have been dis.
charged at the Dundroland iron mines,
and it is feared that the British pro-
prietors may close the mines. III.
1t is mentioned as a curiosity that
Kaiser Wilhelm has placed an order
for steam engine and a dynamo for
steamboat with a Norwegian manu-.
facturor. The machines are also 20
ing to be mounted by Norwegian
wOrkmen., - .'-;-} i - -
An English syndicate spent over
100000 in testing the ore of some
mines at Joranrud, and now the whole
plant has been offered to a .Norwe-
gian for $4,000, which demonstrates
that some Englishmen do not get
rich in Norway. =: ~ ~-...s,-
1var 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-D Danish book
language! His admirers go so far as
to call him Norway's greatest living
poet. 1.r' 49, jH .,.:... -
The government bought the tele-
phone system of Drammen and vicin.
ity short while ago. Immediately
the rates were raised, and a great
number Of subscribers have notified
the government that they can no
longer afford to- keep up their tele-
phone conn ections
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. M. 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 day at Tvedestrand He is
80 years old, but he looks 20 years
younger than he really is.
The Norwegian Unitarians of Min
nesOta and Wisconsin have invited
Rev. Carl Konow. of Bergen, to make
a trip to America and to address his
countrymen in some of the large
cities. It will be remembered that
Rev. KonoW, tho Unitarian, is occu-
plying a pulpit in the state church Of
Norway
Norman Isles, Norwegian freight
steamer, which was grounded in the
bay of Alden, and which was practi.
cany 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 67 to SO proposition to
change the constitution SOFAS to pre-
vent the. king from. comforting deco
rations Of honor upon foreign or Nor
wegian citizens. A motion to pass a
law regulating the acceptance of for
eign decorations by Norwegian citi-
zens was also defeated Ia motion to
stop the granting of decorations to
Norwegian citizens was defeated by
81 votes. M 49, 49, Co.
About 900 tons Of kelp II produced
in southwestern Norway every year.
This article. Is, the ashes 81 certain
kind Of seaweed Of the same name.
The commercial value Of the annual
output is about 100000. Experiments
made at the Bergen fisheries station
have led to the discovery of a 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. '"..>'t''- Il: 3'9r';fi
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
a thoro study of the matter. He soon
ascertained that Viking had been
buried there and that tho his ship and
equipment had been burnt at the time
Of tie 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
a gold ring, many shield plates, ar
rows, some bronze and iron vessels,
only parts remaining Some silver
trimmings and a 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 colonist-the son Of
Norwegian father and Bretagpan1aef
mother '>1N2@ H. 2@51i4 3ttj mi
Prof rroof.o Y nsevar N1isssenn ana Prof" Il!
nxandar lRilp1e ,pnres 70 4 III, ~.