Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-12-30


and sketches OF plots and morals o
JIbsen's plays, as we'll as the text o
the plays as first completed, the las
showing the great Importance Ibsen Z
tributed' to careful planning of his
plays in advance, aud the thorough re
vision or them. The collection is ma
turally counted among the rarest i.
modern literature and will be trans
lated into five different languages.
Business conditions all over tn,
country are rather dull at present. and
from many sections comes much com
plant. There are hundreds of mer
out of employment in Christiania and
while they have not had any large in
dustrial strike as In Sweden, there is
nevertheless. characteristic unres,
in all labor circles. There has only
been an average crop. and the fact
that so many people are emigratine
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
NAL 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
have been a ''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 az one of the leading
hotels in Christiania, found not less
than ten pears in one of the oysters
set before him. One of them at
least is regarded as being very valu.
able and one can readily imagine his
Joy when he found so valuable thing
while eating. In other words he was
making mCrey 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.
tiania thought II was too much of a
good thing so that they put a stop 20
It.
An important real estate deal took
place in Christiania the other day,
when A. Beck Hansen and John Tor
genson purchased Holmen's Gade No.
8. for consideration of 125 900 crowns
It was one of the largest real estate
deals on record this season.
Bijorn and Eniar Bjornson and 81
gurd Ibsen, were suddenly called II
Paris the other day, owing to the III
ness of Bjornstjerne Bjornson. Bjorn-
sons wife and daughter. Mrs. Sisurd
Ibsen are continually at the bed side of
the dying author.
The mines In Meraker have been
temporarily closed and about 800 men
were thus thrown out of employment.
About three million crowns have been
expended on these mines, but recent
ly it is learned that they have been or
Grated at a loss.
The committee having charge of the
hansen Fund will contribute 10000
crowns from the aforementioned fund
for Road Amundsen's oceanographic
researches on the Atlantic.
As early as Nov. there was excel
lent sleighing In Kristianssand and vi
cinity. In Christiania 1t 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 IF
teen per cent