Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-04-29
NORWAY.

The new church at Notodden was
dedicated April 4.
. Krtstiaaia Consumed about 80, 900
eSSs during the Easter holidays.
The board of education ana tho
teachers Of AL, HAlknsdRl, have
managed to adopt s~ch a mixture OF
languages in the publie schools that
outsiders fail to see the underlying
principles.
Curl Bjornaasen, IN Dramnen, IL 100
years old. She can hear fairly we'll
and can read without glasses. She
was born IN AL, \. Alnnsdal. Her old
est daughter Is 80 years old, and aHtG
tive years ago she tesk care OF thirty
cows. TIE lattsr's daughter is a
srandnoth herself Gun Bjoraaa-
sen, therefore, has four generations Of
descendants.
Almost 5000 fishing boats have bssh
engaged on the Lofoten fishing
grounds this spring, and over s,0ee,
oo3 goldfish were caught tn one week,
Tho total catch Of Goldfish to April /
wes about $1,000, 600 ash. About 40o,-
900 tubfuls Of spring herring was
caught at the same time. More than
helf OF the herring was iced and pat
on the market fresh, and only 100000
barrels was sailed down.
Norway will open her first ersma-
tory May /. 1t IS located at Vsstro
Gravlund, Kr1stiania. The regulations
for funerals at this institution require
so much red tape and such large e.
penses that common people cannot
make use of it. The property Is
owned by a private company, but tho
city donated the site and gave bonus
on condition that the management Of
the crematory shall be turned over to
the city In case of an epidemic.
Peat has been used for fuel for
some time past on the Solor railway,
Rustad bog. near Kongsvinger. The
result was not satisfactory, tho main
trouble being that the peat az used
on this occasion was too bulky in pyo-
portion to tho tuel which It contained.
But it would pay to use it If It could
be pressed into bricks by some cheap
method. At the stations It will De
used In the future wherever the raw
material can be obtained in the neigh
borhood, and special stoves have been
ordered for this purpose.
SWEDEN.
The late Rev. Herman, court chap
lain in Stockholm, will be succeeded
by Rev. A. J. Kallander of Upsala.
Thanks to the Indifference OF the
labor unions, the frst-of-May labor
demonstration is falling into "innoc-
uous desuetude" in Stockholm.
Count Tarebe. former Swedish min
lister to Berlin. has been appointed
Swedish minister of foreign affairs.
He is a very able and broadminded
man.
The consistory of Stockholm dis
posed of DR.. Anton Nystrom's diabol-
istic difficulties in a surprising man
ner. 1t will be remembered that DR..
Nystrom sent a communication to the
consistory, calling attention to the
fact.
Stockholms-T idningen contained a
serious April joke signed "Parpignol."
1t is stated in the article that a certain
inmate of the Konradsberg insane
asylum is not insane, and that GER
tain physician is responsible for the
mistake of sending sane man to
such an institution. Inasmuch as the
names of the patient and the doctor
are given, the matter will be taken
seriously by the parties thus put be-
fore the public in an unfavorable light.
The following chips of Swedish gov
eminent railway statistics ought to be
interesting reading matter to those
who clamor for the naturalization of
the American railways: The Swedish
government borrowed $93,960,00O to
build her state railways. In 1906 the
railway traffic gave a surplus of s4,-
671,000. The interest on the $93,96O,-
900 being $3,105, 900, the government
cleared $1,566,000. Then came a uni
versal demand from the employees for
higher wages, and a conservative raise
was granted. This increased the ex-
penses so that the surplus was only
just about equal to the interest on the
bonded Indebtedness in 1907. But in
1908 the surplus was reduced to ST.
100000, or $1,S36,OOV less than the
interest, and the government of
course had to pay the latter amount
out of receipts from other sources. It
must be added that the railways of
Sweden are carefully managed.
The socialists in the riksdag do not
want to let the state sell parcels of
ground to small farmers, but simply
to rent out the land to such farmers,
the state remaining the owner.
While some boys were playing in a
gravel pit at Kungsbacka one, of them,
Erik OLSON, was hit by rock rolling
down from the precipice and was
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