Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-31
SWEDEN,

Ine Kara Dathlng establishment In
Stockholm is to be enlarged and i'm.
proved at a. total cost of 100000.
A Stockholm manufacturer has Just
sent four scales to Japan to be used
for weighing cars on the government
railway of that country.
The Stockholm incandescent lamp
factory has received an order for lamps
from firm in Italy, the amount of the
order being about $4,000.
Russian business men are planning
for the establishment of line OF
freight and passenger steamers be-
tween Stockholm and Reval.
The Trelleborg rubber factory has
Just sent consignment of ten tons OF
rubber goods to Japan, where the
factory has a good market.
Some of the automatic temperance
restaurants in Stockholm do not pay
their way, and two of them have been
changed to automatic beer dispensers.
Selma Lagerlof has promised to
speak at the Women's convention in
Stockholm, June 13. The famous au.
thoress is in favor of Womans stuff
rage.
Baron Cederstrom has bought a
Bleriot monoplane of the latest con
struction for about $4,000. The aver
age speed of the flying machine is
80 miles an hour.
At the close of April the snow was
still from four to six feet deep at
Riksgransen, a station on the Gelli,
ware and Ofoten railway at point
close to the Norwegian frontier.
Some Swedish-Americans are going
to start large newspaper in Stock.
holm next year. The chief aim of the
paper will be to serve Swedes in Am.
erica and Swedish-Americansw who have
returned to Sweden. The general make
up Of the publication will be like tina,
Of the great dailies published in Swe
den. -Is... z
When man named Karlsson-F altin
was put in Jail at Umea last fall it was
found that he could neither read moi
write nor figure, tho twenty-five years
old. The chaplain of the jail at once
began to teach the poor fellow, and
so we'll did he apply himself to the
belated schooling that he could be con
firmed the other day.
John Landin, Stockholm chemist
has invented new method of extract
Ing radium from culm. He claims that
his method will make it profitable t
produce radium from culm, which has
not been the case SO far. It should
be mentioned in this connection that II
was Mr.. Landin that first detected thu
presence of radium in said mineral.
The tallest Flagstaff in Sweden was
put up a few days ago at Skansen
Stockholm. It ~ considerably more
than one hundred feet tall, and II
was big Job to put Il en- Everything
went smoothly, however, and when the
biggest flag in Sweden had been hoist
ed to the top Of it the event was cere
brated with a concert given by three
music bands
A young lady appeared in hare,r
skirts the other day on the streets Of
Stockholm. The people no doubt en-
joyed the sight. But there was al
least one spectator who did not fancy
1t. It was her employer, who keeps q
restaurant; and when she returned he
told her in a firm voice that she must
look for a new place, because he had
no more use for her.
| A sarcophagus of Kolmard marble is
to be made for holding the remains Of
King Oscar II. The coffin is to be very
plain, and it's final location will be il
front Of the coffin of King Karl XIV
Johan, in the Bernadotte. Mausoleum
Herr Lindberg, a member of the sc
cond chamber Of the riksdag, wished
to know whether the cabinet intends
to do anything to avert the moral ant
hygienic dangers resulting from tn.
importation OF large numbers of Cali
clan laborers to certain farming com
munities of southern Sweden. Thu
answer Of the cabinet is not known 81
this writing.
The German press has devoted con
siderable space to the introduction O.
third-class passenger cars on the Swe
dish railways. Die Woche gave fin,
illustrations Of such car. and Z full
aeeount Of it's equipment.