Morris tribune., 1912-09-27

work. She is the daughter of the late
minister of state, ]. A. Bonnevil, and
was born in 1872. In 1900 she was
appointed conservator at the zoolog-
ical museum, where she has since con-
Quoted the laboratory instructions
with great ability. She took her de.
gree as doctor of philosophy IN 1906
and last year was elected member
of the Society of Sciences. By this
latter academic appointment Norway
has outdistanced Denmark, where
there are as yet no women professors,
although there are several women
who have gained the degree of doctor
of philosophy. These, however, so far
have attained to no higher position at
the Copenhagen university than that
of lecturer
i. !. +
1t has been computed on good au-
thority that there are $4,000 Norwe-
| gian farmers in Minnesota whose land
is worth about $6O0,O0O,00O. In North
Dakota Norwegian farmers own $780,
100000 worth of land. Add to this
! what the SWedes and the Danes own
| In these two states (where the two
| combined are not nearly as strong as
the Norwegians) and the wealth of
these sturdy descendants OF the VII
kings is not much below two billion
dollars, says the Lutheran, an Eastern
church paper, and it adds editorially:
| THE Scandinavians were not afraid
of soiling their hands and they be-
| lieVed that tilling the soil was one Of
the very noblest and most useful voca-
lions to engage in"
X i. j.
Professor McVey, president of the
University of North Dakota at Grand
Forks, is at present enjoying a visit
in Norway and on invitation delivered
lectures in Christiania, Sept. and 5,
at the university on "The Evolution
of America" and on Recent Social
and Industrial Tendencies in the Unit
ed States" The University of North
Dakota has 800 students, more than
half of whom are Norwegian born or
the sons or daughters of Norwegian
emigrants. Professor McVey has
been royalty entertained during his
visit in the Norwegian capital and
was given an audience by the king
and queen.
Captain Road Amundsen. the dis
coverer of the South pole, is too busy
a man to feast and has served notice
to this effect. He was so feted and
banqueted on his return to Christiania
that it grew to be too much of a good
thing and he has kindly but firmly in
formed his many friends and admirers
that he is too busy to feast. The fact
of the matter is Amundsen is getting
) ready for another long exploration
trip and this time he will be bound
for the North pole and expects to be
; gone at least three years.
, j. \ :.
The Christiania Odd Fellows order,
: which has it's head lodge in Christi
ania has recently completed build
ing of it's own. It is a pretentious
structure in appearance and has all
, of the modern equipments. 1t was
: dedicated about two weeks ago, when
5 a large number of Odd Fellows from
all over the country were in attend
t ance, among them being 100 Danish
: Odd Fellows, who had come from
t Copenhagen to participate in the fes-
: tivities.
X X :.
3 DR.. Henry Goddard Leach, son of
E DR.. Alonzo Leach of Cape May, N. J.,
e has been appointed secretary and
managing director of the American
Scandinavian foundation, an organiza-
q ton to promote cultural relations be-
8 tween America and Scandinavia. DR..
, Leach is instructor in Scandinavian
6 languages in Harvard university. He
was graduated from Princeton uni
9 versity in 1908. The foundation has
! an endowment fund of 100000.
: i. :. !.
J. Finn Koren, the Norwegian consul
i in Montreal, in his last consular re-
s port suggests that the silver fox be
:. introduced into Norway, as we'll as a
number of other species of Canadian
= furbearing wild animals Consul Kor.
J en- states that first class silver fox
!, skin brings a price of not less than
: $1,000 in the Canadian and American
markets.
!. i. + + !. + i. + i. i. !. !: !. 4 !. ]. !
g i DENMARK. !
n j. i j. + + + i. !: !. + i. i !. X !. i !
> A report from Copenhagen says
: that Prince Knud, the second son Of
King Christian. has obtained the per