Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-04-15
NEWS OF SCANDINAVIA.
DENMARK,

A new hotel at a cost of $250,000
will be built during the coming sea-
son at Fredericksburg street and Kat
tesund, Copenhagen.
st. Bendt's church at Ringsted has
been altered and repaired, and tho
rededication of it was attended by
the royal family. The tombs of tho
ancient kings and queen of Denmark
are located in this building.
1t is proposed that those who are
employed by the city Of Copenhagen
be compelled to live within the city
limits. There are thousands of such
persons, and If the plan is carried
through in practice, 1t will put tens of
thousands of dollars into the pockets
Of those who own buildings in the
city. Such an arrangement would be
blow to Fredricksberg, q suburb
which would have to give up many
of its present residents.
NORWAY.
The Eidsvold movement committee
has raised $4,000, but needs $4,000
mOI0 lOI Luc uuOVcuCuL.
Roald Amundsen, the Arctic explor-
er, has written to DR.. Harry Edmonds,
manager Of the magnetic observatory
In Sitka, Alaska, accepting his offer to
accompany the projected Fran expe-
dition to the north pole. No Norweg-
ian physician having expressed de-
sire to make the trip, the American
will be given the post of medical off,
Ger. The doctor Eade the acquain-
lance of Mr.. Amundsen in Sitka when
the explorer reached that place after
finishing his journey through the
Northwest passage in 1906.
Thomas Krag, Norwegian author,
has seen fit to criticize his country
men for their alleged narrow-minded-
ness. He says in part: I'm the rest Of
Europe everything bears the stamp of
feverish restlessness, of an intensely
energetic struggle to make progress.
When a person has received impress
sions from this life abroad and re-
turns to Norway he is unfavorably
struck by the idle stress and struggle
in which our people are engaged. Take
this language reform question, for in
stance! People really ought to find
something more useful to busy them
selves with than this digging in old
trunks, this attempt to construct a
language which never lived on hu-
man tongue, this walking around
In foolish dreams about the civiliza-
ton OF by-gone age. And those W.
kings that people are bound to ape.
Bless your soul! Do you suppose that
they stayed at home in Norway patch
ing old clothes? No, indeed, they
went to far-off countries and fetched
home what was beautiful and splen-
did, Suppose we did as they did. I
sometimes wish that the government
could send a bunch of our leading
farmers and business men to foreign
countries where they might see for
themselves and learn something really
useful"
SWEDEN.
Angling on the ice was profitable
on some of the lakes of southern
Sweden last summer.
The city council of Stockholm has
formally resolved to issue bonds to
the amount of $13,5O0,000.
An anonymous person has donated
| $4,000 to the university of Upsala for
| the publication of geological journal
King Gustaf and other members
| Of the royal family have been indulg'
ing in winter sports at Lerdal, Da'
larne. The king can stand pretty
we'll on his skis in steep hill in
spite of his advanced age. Once upon
returning from the ski hills to the
hotel he was pretty we'll covered with
snow, and the first thing that he did
was to shout, Fetch me broom!"
DR.. Sven Hedin told at breakfast
given in his honor by the "Asiatic
| Committee of France" how he ap
preached Alfred Nobel, the great in
ventor and philanthropist, for the first
time. Hedin had not yet distinguished
himself in any manner. But he had
made up his mind to explore Central
Asia, and he asked Nobel for money
| W Hdy IAC CApCuOCOs A\OOOA uA0 WI w
4 that such an undertaking was not
worth while, and at the same time he
advised Hedin to do something else
But in order to see how seriously hi
took the matter he let young Hedir
have a snug sum of money anyway
and this gave the famous explorer a
good start. g..
DR.. Anton Nystrom has actually
written the consistory of Stockholm
with regard to the public statement
made by Rev. N. Hannertz, to the eff
feet, that although a minister of thu
state church he does not believe II
the devil. DR.. Nystrom says in part
Though I do not wish to accuse Rev
Hannertz Of heresy, I take this chance
to send his letter on that subject, ant
I would request the consistory to con
tribute to the solution Of the Chris
tian problem from dogmatic poin
Of view, or partly to express itself OF
| diahO1ism in thA doctrines of thu