Willmar tribune., 1909-01-06
sWE9EN.

Denmark.
sWE9EN.
DR.. Sven Hedin does no: expect to
reach Stockholm until some time tp
January.
Germany and France have agreed
on Governor Hammarskjo;d Of Upsala
as umpire in the Casablanca affair.
A hospital for tuberculous children
is being built in Tjarnan, Dalarne, at
the expense of Crown Princess Mar
garet.
G. A. Westergren, a GothenbI1g
merchant, is sarying dinners to $50
poor children every day without
charge.
1t is stated by Swedish newspapers
that the emigration to America will
be heavier after the Christmas holi-
days than it las been since Oct ober,
1907.
The health of Queen Dowager Sofie
is not good. Since the latter part OF
September she has been suffering from
Intestinal catarrh, and size has to stay
in bed most of the time. She stayed
at Ulriksdal during the fall, but just
before Christmas she was to move to
Stockholm.
Two old men lost their lives on
their way to a prayer meeting at
Vasterfalen, Nordmark. They lived
at ~Silbodal, and started off on a Pc
culiar Swedish sled (sparkstolt!ng, or
kicking bobsled), and they later broke
through the ice at the mouth of Sill
bodal river. Their screams attracted
people from the neighborhooa, but
the aid came too late to save their
lives.
The society of sciences has caused
an investigation to be made in the
tomb Of Svedenborg at Upsala to as
certain whether the Uranium which
is claimed to have belonged to him is
genuine. The committee in charge
of the work has reported that the gen.
uineness of the Uranium has not been
proved with absolute certainty, but
that all the circumstances point in that
direction.
An organ and piano factory in
Stockholm has commenced to turn out
organs which have no bellows but are
made for being attached to the city
water mains. To run an organ by
means of water power" of this kind
costs about two cents an hoClr. The
required pressure is only about one
half atmosphere, and this can be OBJ
tatned even in the top stories of the
tallesy buildings In Stockholm.
Fer years past an artillery school
has been In operation at Roaersberg,
and the roise produced by the fire.
kr1ns during the warm season has left
the Rosersberg palace vacant. Now
It is proposed to remove the school
to some other place, and as soon as
ali end is put to the cracking of mus
kerry members of the royal family
will no doubt spend part of The warm
season in the palace. The equipment
Of the palace has not been disturbed,
aud the elegant furniture seems to
have been waiting for royal occupants
from year to yeaf.
Systematic efforts are made to in
duce Swedish farmers to e1nigrate to
Australia. Blu. the Swedish consul
in Sidney, Count Birger Moraer, warns
his countrymen not to go to Australia
or New Zealand.
The national society for the ad-
vancemeut of the Swedish language
and Swedish culture in foreign coun-
tries was organized a few days ago
in Gothenburg.
The Swedish export trace with Ja-
pan is steadily increasing. the main
articles of export being paper and
fine steel.
Greedy seals are numerous along
the coasts OF southern Sweden, and
they do great deal Of damage to the
fishermen by eating fish from hooks
and nets and occasionally tearing the
nets to pieces.
The Parting*on Lumber company,
an English firm, is going TO cut 120,-
900 trees in it8 forests in Varmland
this winter, and the logs will be sawed
at Edsville, Dejs and Skare.
The influx Of Swedish-Americans De-
fore tke Christmas holidays was much
smaller this time than it lad been for
manv vAana