Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-06
SWEDEN.

chickens on many farms.
The stork is expected to pay a visit
to the family of the crown prince of
Sweden almost any day.
Klas Johan Hodell, of Tumba, died
at the age of 90 years. He worked at
the Tumba paper mills for seventy
two years.
The railway department has made
arrangements for running three ex-
press tourist trains week from Stock
holm to the extreme north during the
warm season.
About 100000 barrels of herring was
caught on the southwest coast of Swe-
den during the past season, and the
proceeds were about $750,000. The
catch was little smaller than in 1909,
but the prices were so high during the
past season that the proceeds exceed
ed those of 1909 by $4,000.
Stockholm election Of alder
men here has resulted in the return of
two women, the first in Sweden to re-
ceive the Office. One is DR.. Valfrid
Palmgren, conservative, and the 9th
err Gertrude Mansion, social demo-
crat. Laws recently enacted give wo-
men the franchise in municipal at
fairs.
The prison managers Of Sweden
have figured out that the prohibition
Of the liquor traffic would reduce the
expenses Of the prisons of the country
by more than 100000 a year. But
they are afraid that if the liquor traf-
tic were prohibited the people would
get into the habit of using other slim
ulants.
Diphtheria has been raging at the
barracks of the Skanska dragon regi-
ment at Ystad for several months.
AS many as four new cases have been
reported in one day. Parts of the bar
racks were quarantined without sat-
isfactory results, and so the whole
building was finally shut off from com
munication with the outside world.
John Forsell, Swedish opera sing
er, who was engaged to sing for three
years at the New York Metropolitan
Opera, does not like his job because
the general manager and the admin.
istrative manager are continually
Quarreling about the compositions
which Forsell is to sing. It is a nice
thing to make lots of money, he says,
but his position makes life burden
to him. He finally succeeded in max
ing an arrangement by which he can
leave the Metropolitan at the close of
this season. His troubles have been
aggravated by his wife's sickness.
In correspondence from Monte
Carlo to the Berlin Tag it is stated
that the most beautiful woman at
Monte Carlo this season is Princess
Wilhelm of Sweden. Der Tag says:
1.-THE princess is a pure brunette,
slender as sapling, usually wearing
very plain gray dress, and in beauty
she eclipses even the princess of Ru-
mania, who was once looked upon as
the most beautiful woman of her
time"
The dowager queen is to return to
Sweden about the first of June, and
she will spend the summer at Ulriks-
dial and Eriksberg.
About 400 school teachers and 9th
ers attended the course of scientif'
fc temperance lectures at the univer-
sity of Lund This was The 45th
course given by the CentraX Temper.
ance Union, and lasted five days
The lectures were opened by Governor
Robert de la Gardie, who spoke very
highly of this branch of the temper
ance work. G..- -.
~ A flying machine company has been
organized in Landskrona. The enter
prise will not be q one-sided affair
however. The factory will be equip
per for making and repairing airships
boats. and automohi lies.