Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-10
SWEDEN.

The king has authorized the city of
Malmo to issue bonds for $1,200,00O,
part of which shall be paid in twenty
annual installments, part in forty an
nual installments.
A Stockholm chauffeur tried to
cross the Lidingo bridge while it was
shut off in order to let steamer pass
by. A beam had been placed across
the passage, but this was broken by
Che automobile, which went headlong
into the water. The chauffeur and
his only passenger got out just before
the machine struck the water, which
was good thing for them, the water
being almost one hundred feet deep.
Rosendahl is interested in story
published last December of the rem
nants of a balloon having been found
by Eskimos in the far north. The
Eskimos said that many years before
they had come across two white men
who came down out Of the sky in
white house." These men starved
to death and the natives seized the
balloon, the cordage of which they
converted to their own uses.
j. A. Lagerquist, who was born in
Stockholm in 1918, has lived in that
city all his life, and this is supposed
to entitle him to be stated "the oldest
settler?" There may be still older
people in the city, but no other living
person is supposed to have lived in
the city continually for 80 years. Mr..
Lagerquist used to be a wholesale
merchant. He still takes regular
walk in the open air every day.
OF course, Sweden, like all other
countries, has a good many problems
to solve. Perhaps the most serious
just now are the heavy emigration and
the reluctance with which young peo-
pie enter into matrimony. There are
today fewer marriages in proportion
to the population than in any other
country, and the birth rate is the low
est in Europe next to France. Many
causes have contributed to bring this
about. The education for women is
faulty; too much stress is placed on
culture, and too little attention is paid
to the more practical attachments
which are necessary if she is to make
successful wife and mother. Again,
women have taken mems places in
business, and this has always resulted
disastrously, for it is strictly against
natural law. Lastly, the young people
generally seem TO have developed
more numerous demands, and as the
cost of living has gone up consider
ably, they naturally hesitate to as
sumo the responsibilities of a home"
The attacks on the explorer were
made in connection, with the publ
cation of maps which Hedin asserted
he had made of the interior Asia re-
gion. Strindberg, however, charges
that these maps are not original and
that other explorers covered the same
territory before.
Rosendahl declares his intention of
tracing these rumors to their founda-
ton and following up every clue that
gives any reasonable promise of re-
suits. He will begin his Investigations
in st. Boniface and will probably then
go to Prince Albert and to Hudson's
bay.
August Strindberg, the author, has
been criticising everybody and every
thing during the past few months,
and his most recent attack is directed
against Sven Hedin, the famous Swed-
ish traveller and writer whom Strind.
berg charges with being an "unscrup-
ulous humbug" and of the same caliber
rs DR.. Cook"
The rainfall in East and Central
Sweden was four inches during the
first ten days Of July, and the farmers
did not know what would become of
their crops. The rainfall in the rest
Of the country averaged only about
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