Morris tribune., 1908-12-19
NORWAY.


There is greater interest evinced for
ski running than ever before. Great
plans are now under way to make the
Holmenkollen event 6le OF the great
est in history. AS a Sport Norwegian
ski running reaches its acme in the
jumping contests, which, commencing
early in January, take place every
try successfully, eliminating in the
great event at Holmenkollen on the
mountain overlooking Christiania.
These contests are purely athletic af-
fairs, and not an essential part of the
ski running, but they serve the pur-
pose as a stimulant to maintain inter
est in the exercise. AS picturesque
and exciting exhibitions of athletic
skill they surpass anything else in the
world of sport. One of the sights OF
Christiania is the long and carefully
constructed coast" as Americans
would call it, which winds down from
the hills of ''Frognesater" to the cap
ita1 of Norway On winter Sunday
this is a great slide and scene of
constant life and animation. Sleds
come gliding down in rapid succession.
their occupants shouting the warning
'Look out" The Norwegian record is
held by jump of forty-eight meters,
or nearly 1873 feet, down the slope.
Measuring back on level to the take.
off, the distance covered in this sur
prising fight is hundred and twenty
five feet, with drop of about sixty
five feet.
Norway's queen takes great inter
est in charity work and whenever she
has an opportunity to do some kind
deed she devotes her, entire time to 1t.
There are many poor people in the
Norwegian capital this winter, but
their condition is not foreign to the
good queen. She has already donated
thousand Of crowns to charity institu-
tions and is also taking great deal of
interest in the anti-tuberculosis So
ciety of the country, which is making
such heroic efforts to check the in
roads and ravages of that dreadful dis
ease. Recently she donated 5000
sented the Christiania branch with a
beautiful pair of French vases, which
are valued at several hundred crowns.
King Haakon is equally good hearted
and, although he is not king who is
receiving the greatest royal salary in
the world, he freely subscribes to good
and worthy causes all that his purse
can stand
The anti-leprous congress which con-
vened in Bergen some time ago sub
scribed 5000 crowns for the purpose
of fighting the dread disease. From
individual sources there have been
subscribed something like 10000
crowns. There are number of cases
of leprosy in the country and the
storthing will be asked to take up the
matter of purchasing an island which
will be set aside for such unfortunates.
Judging from latest calculations the
Amundsen expedition in quest of the
north pole will cost in the neighbor-
hood of 10000 crowns. Little Nor
way has spent millions of crowns al
ready and it can be truthfully said of
the country that it is contributing it's
share for scientific research.
Carl Dohns, the young zoologist has
been appointed "conservator" of the
Bergen museum While only young
man, Mr.. Dohns has already distin.
guished himself in his chosen avoca-
tion and everybody thinks that the
right man has been selected for the
place.
King Haakon has donated 10000
crowns to the Eidsvold monument
The Eidsyold monument fund now
amounts to about $4,000 crowns and is
steadily increasing.
DENMARK.
According to latest reports they
have discovered how Alberti was
placed in a condition to conduct such
wholesale swindleries for number of
years. Until the early part of last
week Alberti tenaciously chung to the
statement that he did not have any &C.
complies, but he now admits that he
had He had plenty of help from Eng
land. especially from butter import
ing firm in Manchester, with whom he
had large accounts. The names of the
men who were allied with him in Eng
land in these swindleries have not as
yet been divulged, but their names will
soon be made known to the public An !
other man who was involved in these |
wholesale swindleries was a book
keeper for one of the Alberti banks !
in London. Alberti now maintains
that there are many high Danish dig /
nitaries who were mixed up with him
and rigid investigation will follow i
The reign of terror instituted some |
time ago in the country districts by :
Russian anarchists has stirred the /
country from one end to the other It |
appears that there are not less than
/ 900 Russian anarchists and fugitives /
from justice in Denmark and every |
possible effort is being put forth to
single them out and send them back /
to Russia The difficult part of the
matter is that a large number of the
anarchists are Russian students and