Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-12-24

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and sketches of plots and morals o.
Ibsen's plays. as well as the text OF
the plays as first completed, the last
showing the great Importance Ibsen ct,
tributed to careful planning of his
plays in advance, and the thorough re-
vision of them. The collection Is ma
turally counted among the rarest In
modern literature and win be trans.
lated into five different languages.
business conditions all over the
country are rather dull at present, and
from many sections comes much com
plant. There are hundreds Of men
out of employment in Christiania and
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
been 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
NAL dedication Of the Bergen railway
A Sunday dinner was given at the Der
gen theater and among others whc
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 "folkefest" in which al
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 al
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 wai
making money at that very time.
The Christiana police have forbid
den wrestling matches at Tivoli. During
the past few months there have beer
not less than twenty sensational wrest
ling matches and the people of Chris
tiania thought it was too much of a
good thing so that they put stop tc
1t.
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 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 Ibsen, 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 800 men
were thus thrown out of employment
About three million crowns have been
CApOAuCu Ou LuCSt1, ullI0S, UuI TOC0uC
" it is learned that they have been op
Grated at loss.
The committee having charge of the
hansen Fund will contribute 10000
crowns from the aforementioned fund
for Road Amundsen's oceanographit
researches on the Atlantic.
AS early as Nov. 1 there was excel
lent sleighing in Kristianssand and vi
cfnity. In Christiania it has been diff
ferent, but there has been zero wealth
er for 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 fol-
the evening.
Grand Hotel" a popular tourist
hosiery at Otta, was destroyed by fire
during the latter part of last month.
The tariff on Norwegian salt-pete1
has in Sweden been increased to ff.
teen per cent.
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