Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-01-20
IL broken and that ne CANNOT hope to /

live very long. Partisan papers take
great deal of interest in Bjornson, ve
ferring to him as the Norwegian
Hugo" and publish daily bulletins
regarding his condition. During his
Illness. however, he is showing aston
fishing luciGity of mind and cheerful
ness of disposition. Il, is prone to
make many little jokes on subjects OF
daily life, but Is forbidden by his ply.
eicians TO talk politics and discuss
social questions
There died in Christiania the other
/ day very benevolent woman, who
during life gave away thousands and
thousands of dollars to deserving poor
When she died she left will
which decreed that her entire fortune,
which amounted to over 10000 crowns
should be devoted to charitable pur.
poses. or this sum she donated 300
\ 900 crowns to merchants who had
failed in business in Christiania, The
other 100000 crowns will go to various
charities which will be of direct bene.
fit to the poor.
Secretary Rygg of the Norwegian
statistical bureau in recent issue Of
the "Morgonbladet" makes a compar.
ison between Norway's and Denmark's
net Indebtedness to foreign countries.
According to Danish official statistics,
Denmark has stationary net indebt.
edness of 526,000,000 and $4,000 900
crowns of debts. which are kept in cir.
culation. The stationary debt of Nor.
way amounts to about 100000, 900
crowns. So far as the moving
debts are concerned, Norway Is thus a
little better off than Denmark.
The church people of Norway are
at present especially agitated over the
separation OF the church from the state.
II seems. there are three parties:
Those who wish to retain the State
church; those who would only nave a
free church, and those who would
have both and allow each person 10 Sc
lect which he prefers
The great Holmenkollen Ski turna.
ment will take place Feb. II, to Fl.
Great preparations are being made for
the event as representatives from sew
eral foreign nations are expected to at.
tend. 1t is the great carnival Of the
winter season and people from che
country flock into Christiania and out
to EIolmenkolen TO see the sport.
\ The school children OF Arendahl
years placed a sum of 10000 crowns
in the savings bank of that little city.
This shows what even children can do
when they are taught to cultivate the
spirit of saving the pennies"
Bishop Boeckman has been appoint
ed to fill the vacancy of the diocese OF
I Trondhjem caused by the death OF
Bishop Wexelsen. Bishop Boeckman
is the son Of clergyman, and had fin
ished his theological course at the age
of twenty-five years.
About 16, 900 kilos of reindeer meat
was shipped from the Thurman coast
to Vardo recently. II finds ready
market and it was not many hours be-
fore It all had been picked up by the
wholesale buyers
Bjorn Biornson. son OF the cele'
brated author, was recently married
to Madame Einar Bendix.
DENMARK.
A recent Copenhagen dispatch says:
Popular anger has been excited here
} by an apparently authenticated state
/. ment that one of the university pro-
/ fessors was aware, before DR.. Cook
. was honored here for his alleged dis
! covery of the north pole, that Cook
/ had been detected swindling In money
matters I'm Greenland as early as in
, 1894. The professor IL said TO have
|, kept the matter secret so as not TO pre-
] vent the university from comforting 3
! degree on Cook The university's
! committee is still investigating Cooks
original notebooks. II Is stated they
have been found to contain suspicion
] recent corrections. The question Is
discussed whether the committee will
! investigate Commander Peary's pa
{ pers. Professor Salomonsen says the
question has no practical interest. as
, Peary is not likely to submit his
/ papers to tn committee, fearing the re-
6 suit Professor Stroemgren, on thu
: contrary, expects the papers to be sub
mitted TO the committee.
U In the country districts people are
$ cooperating In buying feed stuffs ant
. In marketing eggs for export. anf
there are at present thirty co-opera-
{ tive bacon factories; but in the line o
{ cooperative stores everything Is con
! centrated in the cities. There arr
1900 cooperative stores In the couD
/ try. with 10000 members, but onl!
b two per cent of them are outside th'
: cities and towns. They do an aggre
gate business Of $13, 100000 year. II
r Denmark the first cooperative dalr.
businessl began in 1882, and now Their
are LOSS in the kingdom. with 1871
s members and an annual production o
u 176.000,00 pounds of butter. TIL,
S milk supply of the cooperative diaries
y amounts to IS per cent Of Denmark
total.
: A century ago. the Danish peopl
e were among the poorest people Of En-
y rope According to one Of the news
paper correspondents, their per capt.
IS wealth exceeds that OF France, Ho
rs land, Norway. Sweden or any othe
e country on the continent. This grea
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