The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-12-23

ana sketches of plots and morals O.,
slDsen,s plays, as we'll as the text OF
the plays as first completed, the last
showing the great Importance 1bsen at
trlouted to careful planning of his
plays in advance, and the thorough re
VISION OF them. The collection is ma
turally counted among the rarest il
modern literature and will be trans
lated into five different languages.
Business conditions all over the
country are rather dull at present, anG
from many sections comes much com
plant. There are hundreds of mer
out OF employment in Christiania ana
while they have not had any large in
dustrial strike as in Sweden, there is,
nevertheless, a characteristic, unrest
IN all labor circles. There has only
peen an average crop, and the fact
that so many people are emigrating
only goes to show there is something
radically wrong with Industrial and
business affairs generally in Norway
at present.
There were recently great festivities
IN Bergen, in connection with the for.
mai dedication of the Bergen railway.
A Sunday dinner was given at the Der.
gen theater and among others who
were present was King Haakon The
Bergens Tidende was, however, very
much wrought up over the whole af.
fair and claims that instead of serv.
ing dinner for only about 100 invited
guests from out of town, there should
nave been .'folkefest" in which all
the people of the town and surround.
Ing community could have partici.
pated.
A gentleman who was eating oysters
the other day at one of the leading
hotels in Christiania, found not less
than ten pearls in one of the oysters
Set before him. One of them at
least is regarded as being very val,l.
able and one can readily imagine his
JOY when he found so valuable a thine
while eating. In other words he was
making money at that very time.
The Christiana police have forbid.
den wrestling matches at Tivoli. During
the past few months there have been
not less than twenty sensational wrest-
ling matches and the people of Chris
tlania thought it was too much of a
good thing so that they put stop TO
it.
An important real estate deal took
place in Christiania the other day.
when A. Beck Hansen and John Tor
censor purchased Holmen's Gade No.
6, for a consideration of 125 900 crowns.
1t was one of the largest real estate
deals on record this season.
Bijorn and Eniar Bjornson and 81
gurd 1bsen, were suddenly called t.
Paris the other day, owing to the i'll.
ness of Bjornstjerne Bjornson. Bjorn.
sons wife and daughter. Mrs. Sigurd
1bsen are continually at the bed side of
the dying author.
The mines in Meraker have been
temporarily closed and about 300 men
were thus thrown out of employment.
About three million crowns have been
expended on these mines, but recent
~ it is learned that they have been On.
Grated at loss.
The committee having charge of the
Nansen Fund will contribute 10000
crowns from the aforementioned fund
for Road Amundsens oceanographic
researches on the Atlantic.
AS early as Nov. l there was excel.
lent sleighing in Kristianssand and vi.
cinity. In Christiania it has been diff.
ferent, but there has been zero wealth.
er for a number Of days.
The Norwegian Club" in London
held its annual dinner at Hotel Cecil,
Nov. "a Sir Henry Seton, president
of the club, acted as POSTMASTER for
the evening
Grand Hotel" a popular tourist
hostelry at Otta, was destroyed by fire
during the latter part of last month.
The tariff on Norwegian salt-peter
has in Sweden been increased to ff-
teen per cent.