Willmar tribune., 1908-01-22
SCANDINAVIAN NJ rs


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Queen Victoria had to go to south:
ern Europe on account Of bronchitis.
For eighteen years she has been suf-
fering from troubles in the respiratory
organs. and southern climate is the
only thing that gives her relief.
It is stated on the best Of authori-
ties that the coronation of King Gus
taf would have cost at least 100000.
But the Stockholm Dagblad points to
another fact. The father Of the pres
ent king was crowned king of Nor
way In the name of the Almighty,
and afterwards deposed. A short
while ago the Norwegians crowned
another man as their king at the
same place and in the same manner,
making sort Of {, parody out of the
ceremony.
The Socialists have just suffered a
significant defeat in the Luggude riks-
dag district, Skane, which consists of
a farming community in which there
are several manufacturing and mining
towns. At the previous election the
Socialists carried the district by a
vote of 80, while the combined; op-
position cast only 373 votes. and the
dominant party carried on .sys-
tematic and vigorous campaign in
order to keep their ground. But they
lost the district. their vote being only
SIG against the 1898 votes of the
opposition. This remarkable change
was due in a large measure to the
farm laborers' strike, which took place
in that community last summer. This
strike in some cases made it impos-
sible to have the COWS MIXED at reg
ular hours, and the consequent suffer
ing to the animals caused general dis.
gust with the strike leaders, who are
already leaders of the Socialist party.
NORWAY.
Four hundred tons of hay has been
exported from Trondhjem, mostly to
England.
A guano factory will be started
next spring about a mile and half
south of Haugesund 49,:
To haul the grain from the fields on
sleds is not pleasant task. But this
is what many Norwegian farmers
have been doing. What makes the
situation still more gloomy is the fact
that in many cases the crop is not
worth threshing. Not even the cattle
relish the stuff.
A KriStiania preacher must know
more than ordinary people do about
the nature of angels. He claims that
they are subject to the laws of gravita-
tion. Hence, the good ones are soar.
ing about in heaven, while the bad
ones, being heavier, are dragged
down to the earth.
Many farms have been sold lately
in Gudbrandsdalen, one of the most
noted mountain valleys of Norway. In
most cases the buyers are spectators.
whose aim is to get rich by stripping
the land Of its timber. This sort of
traffic is looked upon with dismay
by the residents of the community.
A post mortem examination showed
that Minister Hauge, who died from
heart failure while out skiing all alone
in the woods above Kristiania, had
been suffering from Qualification Of
the arteries and that his heart had
been attacked so that death would
have come at an early, date at any
rate.
In Stavanger amt committee has
been appointed to propose means of
averting the danger which threatens
the sheep raising industry. There is
a tendency to turn the mountain pas
lures into hunting grounds, which re-
duces the chances for the sheep farm
ers and increases the number of
beasts of prey.
Rev. Carl Konow, the much dis
cussed preacher who is holding on to
a position as assistant pastor of a
state congregation in Bergen, though
he is Unitarian, has received sup.
port from unexpected quarters. Rev.
J. I. ANDERSEN, who was once pro-
posed for a theological professorship
at the university, and who has served
the Ofoten parish for about forty
years, has written newspaper article
in defense of Konow. The article has
stirred up much bad feeling, but the
writer enjoys such splendid reputa-
ton that no prominent public man has
deemed it expedient to make public
attack on him.
Skredsvig's painting, "A Poem
About DEATH" has found home at
last. Years ago it was proposed to
have it installed in a noted church In
Kristiania, but after an animated con-
trOversy it was excluded on the.
ground of being unsuitable for place
of religious devotion. 1t consists of
two parts, one representing father
and a mother mourning at the fresh
grave of their child, the other part
showing Jesus seated on his throne
and the New Jerusalem in the back
ground, while the departed child is
led up to Him. The painting has been
placed in the Frogner church, which
is located in the most fashionable por-
tion of the Norwegian capital.
An English company which owns
the Birtavarre mines, near Tronso,
has rented out the property to a
Swedish company for one year. The
latter is going to employ 200 men