Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-15
NORWAY.

Thorvald hammers, the noted barry
tone soloiss. is 20 years old.
The school for house wives at Dram
men has graduated 400 girls.
The damage dOne by the landslide
at Haugsund last Christmas was about
$4,000.
There are so few women In the re-
furmatory at Bergen that they are to
be transferred to Kristiania as a mat
ter OF economy.
Five brothers and sisters of the
Frylund family who were born be-
tween 1926 and 1910 are still living.
and their aggregate age is 1874 years.
About $4,000 has been raised in the
interests of aerial navigation, and as
soon as this amount is doubled an air
ship society will be formally organ
lied.
An unusually large number of foxes
have been killed in the Dovre noun.
tains this winter, and still there is
much more than enough left for breed.
ing purposes.
The population of Hitterdal in
creased from 3,138 to 7,177 in ten
years. The increase was due almost
exclusively to the building of the large
factories at Notodden.
The Cumberland mining company,
an English concern which has it's
headquarters in London, has raised
over million dollars for paying old
debts and starting the work again.
A large number of fishermen lost
their lives in Lofoten last winter. and
$4,000 was raised for the benefit OF
their families, most of the money com.
Ing from other parts of the country.
A native of Nerstrand who lived in
Hull, England, willed about $4,000 to
the poor Of his birthplace, but his rela.
tives contested the will. Now the
courts have decided that the will is
valid.
The first woman in the national leg.
islature of Norway. President Bratlie
is soon going to withdraw as a mem.
Der of the storting, and his seat will
be occupied by Miss Anna Rogstad, his
alternate, who will be the first lady
member of that body.
Mr.. Lodoen, a school teacher, has
set the multiplication to music, and
this music is so beautiful that the
children become fond of the table.
Young as this invention is, it has al.
ready been used as lullaby. The
music has been endorsed by such
high authority as Wendelborg.
The year 1910 was by far the best
one for the canning industries of Nor
way. The increase of the output was
largely due to the increased demand
on foreign markets for canned sprinx
herring and small herring, which goods
so far have had poor reputation.
The sales were almost one hundred
per cent larger in 1910 than in 1908.
They whole number of islands and
skerries rising above high-water along
the coast of Norway is $4,000. If low
er skerries and reefs are added the
number will be swelled to 100000.
Only 46 Of the islands have an area Of
4o English square miles or more.
The population OF Arendal dropped
from 11,155 to 1924 in ten years.
The shipping industries did not pros.
per during the decade, and consider.
able proportion of the people emigrat-
ed to America. It is expected that the
manufacturing industries of the place
will pick up somewhat in the near fu
ture.
Olaf T. Olsen, a sixteen-year-old boy
at Eidsfos, Jarlsberg, risked his own
life in order to save two boys who fell
thru the ice November last, and now
the Norwegian society for saving ship.
wrecked people has awarded him a
i, prize consisting Of silver watch bear,
ing an appropriate Inscription.
The ravages Of tuberculosis is some
thing terrible in Aremark. The per
ccntage Of deaths due to this diseas,
was % in 1909. and the same in 1910
When the disease once gets FOOTING
in house it seems as tho it is bound
to snatch away one inmate after -
other as long as there are any leet