The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-09-25
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The storthing has passed a law low
ering the tariff on sugar, the change
to take effect Jan. 1, 1909.
The reports as to the mackerel fish,
ing are very encouraging. The catch
es in the North sea have been espe-
cially large.
A monument to the memory Of Wal
ter Scott Dahl, the celebrated lay
preacher, will be erected in Romsdal,
where he labored faithfully for many
years.
The lexicon is colossal undertake
ing. embracing 1921 pages. and CIV
ing sketches of over 500 authors. No
pains have been spared to make the
work absolutely authoritative.
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The potato crop will be very large
in Norway this year, but the peasants
complain that On account Of the heavy
export duties soon to be enforced they
will be unable to dispose of their pota-
toes to advantage.
brsndsdalen. The river Sjoa rose to
a greater height than ever before
since 1860 and flooded large tracts, do
ing considerable damage to live stock
and property. Other streams were on
similar rampages, and the loss
throughout the valley is heavy.
1t seems that the apple and pear
crop in Hardanger and Sogn has been
badly injured by insects. The state
entcmoiogist and others are advocat-
ing careful inspection of the infect
ed trees and the use of poison to kill
the eggs OF the pests, so that the
trees will not be molested next year.
A meeting of students of Christian.
ity was recently held at Notodden.
The program included many very in
spring papers and addresses. A
Swedish society of Christian students,
organized in 1896, now has member
ship of 10000, and it is hoped that a
correspondence large society will be
developed in Norway.
Halvorsens "Forfatterlexikon" Uex-
icon of Authors) has been completed,
after twenty-eight years of diligent
work. 1t is named for ]. B. Halvorsen,
a Norwegian writer and scholar of
great learning, who died after laboring
! on the monumental work for twenty
years. Halvdan Koht, Norwegian
Literary scholar of distinction, took up
the work, assisted by P. TIL. Moe, Prof
Ludwig Daae and N. R. Bull, the bu.
reau chief, all competent scholars.
The periodical, Vor It'd, published
an interesting article on the genealogy
of Christian Micelsen, the former pre-
mier. On his fathers side he is de-
scended from peasants of Jaederen.
His parental grandfather went to Ber-
gen in 1900 and engaged in the mer-
camille business. On his mothers
side the distinguished statesman
traces his descent from old and we'll
known families of Christiania, the An
kers and the Collects.
The annual synod of the Free Church
Of Norway was recently held at Moss.
According to the statistics made pub
lie at the meeting, there are 11,l34
members of the Free church and forty
two congregations. The organization
owns fit ychurch edifices worth about
100000 crowns, against which there
is an Indebtedness of 1000 crowns.
The annual receipts of the church are
6S.O73 crowns, and the expenses g.
43O crowns. The church takes very
active interest in missionary work.
and solicits considerable money for
the use of it's missionaries.
The storthing has passed law, by a
vote of 70 to 43, imposing such a
heavy tax on the distilleries that it
is believed that the twenty-four dis
tflleries in Norway will have to close
down, and that all liquor used will be
imported. In Hedemarken and Kris.
tians county there are twenty-one dis.
tiEeries, mostly owned by stock COM
panies, in which the land owners are
the stockholders, and the shutting
down of these concerns will throw a
large number of men out of employ
ment.
SWEDEN.