Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1910-06-03

through a democratic constitution, as
Norway, nominally at least, always
has been Independent and never con.
quered. There is a lesson for Ameri.
cans in the manner in which Norwe-
gians, both in this country and their
homeland, celebrate their great ma
tional holiday. There is no insane
use of firearms, cannon, toy pistols
and other means of noise and human
destruction, such as disgraces our own
national holiday. There is no list of
dead and injured"
By great majority the odelsthing
has voted to grant universal municipal
suffrage to women over twenty-five
years of age The new legislation will
become effective at the next election
and will increase the present women's
vote from 100000 to 100000. The
Odelsthing is the controlling legisla-
tive body of Norway. The general as
sembly of the storthing is elected by
popular vote and upon converting an
nually divides itself into two houses,
the lagthing and the odelsthing. The
former is composed of one-fourth of
the total member of the storthing and
the other the remaining three-fourths.
The revision of the government be-
longs exclusively to the odelsthing, in
which house new legislation must first
be considered. Since 1907 women have
been allowed to vote under the same
conditions as men only when they, or
the husband when the couple have
property in common, have paid an in
come tax of 400 crowns in the town
and 300 crowns in the country dis
trict.
8, few evenings ago two journalists
were enjoying dinner together at the
Grand hotel in Christiania. Both of
them had about two years ago been
employed on a Trondhjem paper, but
one of them had recently been en-
ployed on the "Orebladet" The other
one had been recently employed as a
theatrical critic on the "Verdens
Gang" During the course of the din
ner they engaged in quarrel, result
ing in the ''Verdens Gang" critic
striking his companion blow in the
face which broke the mans spectacles,
causing a piece of glass to lodge in
one of the eyes. The injured man was
taken to a hospital, where it was
learned that he will be blind in his
right eye for life. The matter was re-
ported to the "Verdens Gang" and the
theatrical critic was at once dis
charged. He departed for Trondhjem,
but shortly before reaching Roros the
theatrical critic and journalist had
ended his life by shooting himself in
the head with revolver.
King Haakon and Queen Maud de-
parted for London last week to attend |
the funeral of the late King Edward,
in honor of whom the city of Chris !
tiania was draped in mourning. The |
present queen of Norway is, as is !
well known, the youngest daughter of |
the late King Edward.
The recent sangarfest in Stavanger
was a decided success and Melted the
managers something like $500 crowns.
This money will go as fund for Civ
ing talented and deserving young sing |
ers an opportunity to cultivate their
voices in foreign cities like Stockholm,
Berlin and Paris.
The export of canned fish from Nor
way to America is increasing at
rapid rate Especially is this the case
from StaEanger, from which point
large consignments of canned fish are
being shipped to the large cities in the
United States every day.
General Munthe, who is residing in
China, has sent a collection Of 248
pieces of rare Chinaware to the Ber-
gen Art museum. He has on many
previous occasions donated large and
foreign collections to the
Bergen museum.
Large game is reported very plenti-
ful in Southern Norway. 1t is stated
that last winer in Upper Sirdalen
arge numbers of reindeer came down
INTO the settlements and not for many
years have they been as numerous as
hey are now.
American mining experts are busily
engaged in investigating number of
mining properties at Spitsbergen.
Several deals are reported pending
and it looks az though American CAPT
sal will soon control the entire field
here.
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Brewer Jacobsen, who on many for
ner occasions has made generous do
nations to various charitable institu-