Morris tribune., 1909-01-16
the lumber exports to this country will
soon receive a decided impetus.
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The approaching Holmenk ollen event
is attracting widespread attention.
There will be a large delegation of
sportsmen who will view the great
skee tournament from England, Ger
many, Denmark and Sweden, and
there will be number of participants
in the races who will come from both
Denmark, Finland and Russia. There
will also be number of international
skating contests, in which Canada,
Sweden, Norway and Denmark will
have representatives who will try for
first place. So much has been written
lately about Norwegian winter sports
in both England and German maga-
zines that large number of tourists
and sportsmen will journey to Norway
the year. Both the king and queen
are greatly interested in the event, and
Queen Maud especially had lately be-
come an enthusiastic adherent of the
skee sport,
The temperance workers all over
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when they learned that the govern
ment of France will not permit the
publication on the Paris Bourse of the
latest loan of the Norwegian Hypotek-
bank. This peculiar action on the
part of the French government is
clearly due to the fact that the tenn
perance movement in Norway has ma
terially cut down the imports of
French wines. The temperance lead
ers, however, do not feel at all dis
couraged and claim that they will push
their work as vigorously as ever in
spite of this very apparent setback.
Mrs. Oselia Bjornsen, daughter-in-
law of the great poet, was once a very
popular opera singer, if we are to be-
lieve recent reports published in Nor
wegian papers. A few years ago she
withdrew from the stage because she
thought she was getting too old. A
few nights ago, however, she sang at
concert in Christiania and did so
well that her friends advised her to
return to the stage. 1t is also known
that her distinguished father-in-law is
very much opposed to this and it may
not be possible that she will accept
the advice of her friends in this mat
ter on that account.
A Norwegian newspaper says as fol-
lows: 1T is now explained how it
happened that Selma Lagerlof, the
Swedish woman writer, did not get the
literary Nobel prize. Six members of
the academy voted for her, six voted
for the Englishman, Swinburne, and
only five voted for the German, Euc-
ken. But the Eucken men worked so
hard that they finally came out ahead
although II out of II were against him
at the start. The Swedish academy
was not popular before making this
choice, and now they are going down
in the esteem of the Swedish people"
The Morgenb1adet states that the
monument of N. II. Abel, the great
mathematician, which was put up in
the Christiania suburbs a few weeks
ago, is an extremely peculiar thing.
It is very symbolic, and common peo-
pie unable to grasp the spirit of
the phenomenon think it is very ugly.
This sentiment has gained so much
ground that the monument has given
rise to a brand new epithet of abuse.
Instead of saying, "go home, you ugly
old thing" Christiania boy is very
apt to say, "go home and go to bed
you Abel monument"
An incident which is pathetic in the
extreme happened the other day up in
the vicinity of Nordmark. Two old
men lost their lives on their way to
prayer meeting. They lived at Sill
bodal and started off on kicking bob
sled and later broke through the ice at
the mouth of river. The screams of
the old men attracted people from the
neighbodhood, but the aid came too
late to save their lives.
The year of 1914 is going to be a
very festive one at the Norwegian cap
ital 1t is then proposed to hold an
international exposition in connection
with the celebration of the Tooth an
niversary of the independence of Nor
way.