Morris tribune., 1911-05-05

prince has been appointed t ssume
the reins of government. re king
will be gone about two months.
Andrew Carnegie has established
hero fund in Sweden. This will be
the sixth big fund of this order that
he has esta blished.
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I'm the death of Professor sven Of
tedahl, which occurred on March 30,
the Norwegian Lutheran Free church
Of America has lost it's leader" says
the Lutheran. CAS- professor in the
| Augsburg seminary for man. years
! and as the moving spirit in body of
Norwegians about 10000 strong he
welded strong influence. lie was
| remarkably gifted as inguist, haV-
! ing performed the feat of III ing &C
quaintance with a strange lar r-age in
probably no Lutheran scholar N the
| country who has a speaking a-:d other
/ acquaintance with so many tongues
| as he. There was much AIT his
| personality that was unique. :Le was
| Norseman of the Viking t, free
| and Independent, and represented the
extreme tendency to Lutheran ldivid-
| ualism and congregationalisr} He
rallied around him the IT'S past@rs and
375 congregations of the Free church
with remarkable effectiveness
Lauritz S. Swenson of A.:2~esota
has been nominated by PresiG~.:l Taft
to be minister to Norway. H : now
United States minister to Switzerland.
This is the first time in the / cry of
the United States diplomatic -ervice
+ that an American citizen, w..cae par
ents are foreign born citizens, has
been appointed to diplomatic post in
the land of his forefathers. Nj. Sven
sons home is in Albert Lea Id he
was born and educated in >.coIlet
county, Mimi. He speaks the Nor
In late years one of the burning
questions in Norway has been the
ownership of parsonages. |, vas a
question whether they were C"Ged by
the parish in which they were located,
or by the government. The matter
was carried to the courts and the SUI
preme court decided that the belong
to the state. We must remember that
III many European countries he pas
tors home is not simply a house, but
often very valuable piece OF land is
connected with it which makes a nice
sized farm.
Tolstoi's anna Karenina' has been
rendered to "a full house at the Ma
tional theater in Christiania thirty
seven times. The play is intensely
dramatic and has held Christ.7nia au-
diences perfectly spellbound and
scores of people have gone to see it a
second time.
Professor Henderson, who holds the
chair of English language ard litera-
ture at the University of North Caro-
lima, recently paid visit to the Chris
tiania, university to gather some i'm
portant data for new and important
biography of Henrik Ibsen.
Tolstoi's Anna Karenina" has re-
Gently been translated into the Nor
wegian language by Professor Olaf
Brooch of the University Of Christiania
and will be published by Aschehoug
& Co.
The Christiania high school band
will give a series of concerts this sum-
mer in the larger cities of the country
and will also appear in Copenhagen
and other Danish cities.
The Norwegian journalists pension
fund now amounts to $4,000 crowns.
During the past year or so it was in
creased to the amount of over 72,300
crowns.
At Stenskjaer a society of Lap
landers was recently organized. The
organization already numbers about
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