Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-05-25
SWEDEN.

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SWEDEN.
The government has distributed as
subsidies about $4,000 to thirty agri-
cultural schools.
Later, the former president received
in the legation the Swedish men,
bers of the interparliamentary union.
The rifle clubs of Sweden are max
ing systematic efforts to have volun-
tary target practice introduced in the
public schools of Sweden.
A Lappish witch drum, the most
noted object in LINES photographic
collection, which has been lost for
many years, has at last been found in
Paris museum, where it was taken
in 1883.
A Gothenburg bakery has COM
mence to sell bread by weight, charg-
ing from two and three-quarters to a
trife more than five cents pound for
rye bread, according to the quality of
the goods.
The iron industry of Sweden is in a
prosperous condition. The total ex-
ports for the first quarter of this year
were $4,000 tons, as compared with
$4,000 tons for the corresponding Pc
Rod last year.
The crown prince spent some time
In the former presidents room in the
forenoon and had tea with him in the
afternoon at which also the crown
princess and other members of the
royal family were present.
The riksdag is facing the problem
Of electrifying the railroad running
from the Gellivare and Kiruna mining
camps to the Norwegian boundary
line. There is an abundance of water.
/ power within reach, but it will cost
millions of kronor to build power sta
tons.
A sore throat prevented Ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt from carrying out his
program in Stockholm. He took
lunch with Charles H. Graves, the
American minister to Sweden, at the
legation, and there met Sven Hedin,
the explorer, DR.. Nordenskjold, the an
arctic explorer, Admiral Palander, Pro.
fessor Arrhenius, who is connected
with the Nobel institute, and other sci.
entists and literary persons.
A Swede bought some small boats
In Norway and offered them for sale
In Lysekil. A man came and asked
tor the price. "Twenty dollars"
"Twenty dollars? There is so little to
the craft that I can carry it home.'
IF you can carry it you can have it
for nothing" How far shall carry
it," ITO the market place." The
would-be customer had the boat pulled
out of the water and turned upside
down. Then he crawled under it,
lifted it on his head and shoulders
and started for the market place. He
could not see which way to go, but
the spectators were glad to direct
him, and he finally put down his bur-
den at the market place. The boat
was his.
The last car of a freight train on
the Stockholm and Roslagen railway
was a stock car occupied by horse
and it's owner, E. G. Edlund, farmer
from Stavungen, Almunge parish. Just
after leaving Karsta station the front
wheels of the car jumped the track,
but the hind wheels remained on the
rails. Edlund chung to wall Of the
car, which shook frightfully. Those
who were running the train did not
known what had happened, and the
train did not stop until it came to Ro
station, which is three English miles
from Karsta station. BY this time the
horse had been thrown down on the
floor, and both man and horse were
half dead from the terrible shake-up.
If the hind wheels had been derailed
the chances >are that the occupants
would have been killed. AS it was,
they did not sustain serious injury.
Thu Swedish Employers Association
has Just published an interesting re.
port for the year 1909, the year of the
famous strike. One of the most strik-
ing characteristics of the organization
is the great fidelity with which all
members stick to their agreements.
At the beginning Of this year the total
membership was 1871. The members
employ about 10000 persons, and the
emergency guarantee fund exceeds
$4,500,000.
The representatives of Sweden at
the Vienna chase and tourist exposi-
ton will receive $1,000 as aid from the
Swedish government.
Prof. w. Palmar has invented a new
method of producing dicalcium phos-
phate, and by this method he claims
that it will pay to produce phosphate
from the lean iron ore thrown away at
the iron mines in northern Sweden.
He estimates that the ere thrown away
at Gellivare alone would produce II 900
tens of phosphate.
He intended to make speech at the
national museum before the students
and the massed singing societies, but
gave this up, and instead, bowed from
the balcony Of the legation to the stu.
dentn and singers, who gathered in
the street below and sang selections.