Willmar tribune., 1912-10-30
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Two ladies are taking q regular
course in the theological department
at the university Of Lund.
Additional car ferriss are needed for
the traffic between Trelleborg; Swed'
en-, and Sassnits, Germany.
A COW that managed to get into
fresh clover field in Uppland ate until
she actually and literally bursted.
The medical faculties of the uni
versities of Sweden have decided not
to give instruction in homeopathy.
A swordfsh weighing 800 pounds
was caught at skelderviken. This fish
is exceedingly rare in Swedish waters.
Hanna Sundberg, . seventeen-year-
old girl at Solicited, was accidentally
shot and killed during the Norrland
maneuvers.
An investigation has shown that OF
all the cities of Sweden, Stockholm
has the highest and Umca the lowest
meat prices.
Ostergotland will have the largest
sugar beat crop in it's history. but the
percentage of sugar is one point lower
than last year.
The Skane home for. incurables, at
Lund, has celebrated it's tenth ami
versary The assets of the institution
amount to $65,000.
The Blue Ribboners have asked tho
government to provide for instruction
In temperance at the educational in
stitutions for girls.
The Swedish railway mems union
has bought tho Fredsborg estate at
storebro for the establishment of
recreation home for railway men.
1t is proposed to build q new dry
dock at the Lindholm .shipyards, Goth
enburg. The basin Is to be mined out
Of the solid rock west Of the old dock.
Hjalmar Branting, the Socialist
leader in the riksdag, has demanded
that the government shipyards at
Karlskrona be modernized as speedily
as possible.
At Kiruna, in the extreme north,
there was so much snow on the
ground the second Of October that
sleighs could be used. A few days
later snow fell in the southernmost
part of the country, but it melted as
soon as it reached the ground.
Miss Mathilda Sundvall, the oldest
person in Sodertalje, has celebrated
her 101st birthday anniversary. Her
mental and physical powers are in a
remarkable good condition, and strang-
ers are particularly struck by her
cheerfulness and great talkativeness.
Two boys at Slattakra, Halland.
went out hunting together. They had
only one gun between them. They
could not agree who should use the
gun first, and while they were trying
to settle this by main force the gun
was discharged, killing one of them
Instantly.
The percentage of sugar in tho
sugar beats raised in southern Sweden
decreased somewhat during the first
days of October. It is not known for
certainty whether this deterioration
was due to heavy frost or to other
| causes. It Is known that the frost
did not In any way check the growth
of the beets.
At suggestion made by the water
falls board committee appointed by
| the Swedish academy of sciences
made hydrographical measurements
along tho southwestern shore of Swed-
en- and ascertained that the shoreline
in that part of Sweden is gradually
rising at the rate Of nineteen inches
in a century.
The wide world has no other school
like that on Storbrand island, Lower
Lule Archipelago, Norrland. There
are only two families on the island.
and their seven children are the only
pupils in the school. The heads of the
two families are brothers, and so all
the school children are either brothera
and sisters or cousins
1t has been claimed that moving pic
lures are injurious to the eyes. The
Swedish government has set aside q
sum of money sufficiently large tc
enable DR.. Jakob Billstrom, the med
tcal expert of the biographical bureau
to make comprehensive investiga
ton as to the effects of moving pic
lures upon the eye-sight and the mem
ory.
In view Of the fact that considerable
quantities of dried blueberries are i'm
ported from foreign countries and solo
in Sweden, the medicinal plant export
union Of Sweden, will sell driet
blueberries in tinfoiled bags on which
are to be given the contents and thu
retail price.
The Dalarna insurance association
has insured $4,000 employees. Th<
amount paid out to the insured during
the past eight months was almost $50,
600. The money was paid out under
three heads, namely, to sick persons
to 1ee invalids, and on account Of &
deaths. >
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