Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-10-02
SWEDEN.

0"GOGN.
Miss Sjoberg and Count Posse hav,
completed course at the Berlin flyini
school.
During the first week of the hunt
Ing season 80 moose were killed IN
Vastmanland.
In Vasterbotten Ian the government
has advertised 1,069,23O trees for sale
to the highest bidder.
The Stockholm skating club has 90
cured the use Of the Olympic stadium
for skating contests to be held in con
nection with the Northern games next
winter.
OF the 1900 soldiers of the Hell
SINCE regiment, 40 asked for permis
sion to leave the army and go to the
harvest fields, and in every instance
the request was granted.
The apple, pear and plum crops are
very poor. The figures given are not
based on the percentage system, but
one-half OF an ordinary crop.
Algot Sandberg. the author, did not
spend much time in his hammock last
summer, and the result is six dra'
matte works, three of them transla'
tons and the rest original.
V. ]. Ahlbin, the Swedish represen.
tative at the bathing congress recently
held at Scheveningen, reported that
Sweden ranks among the foremost ma
tions of the world with regard to the
facilities for bathing. Only in certain
respects does the United States excel
Sweden in this respect, and all other
nations are considerably behind the
two mentioned.
A genuine African grasshopper was
caught at Cafe. This animal is very
rare, and only a few samples OF them
were seen In Sweden last summer.
They are about three inches long and
are direct descendants of the grass.
hoppers that ravaged Egypt thousands
of years ago. It is considered very
strange that they should get as far
north as Sweden. The most reason.
! able explanation is that they were
carried by swift storm from Hun.
gary, where they did much damage
last summer.
Horse scared to death. As the
chauffeur of an automobile passing
along the road near Odeshog was go.
ing to meet farmer whose horse was
| evidently afraid of the machine he
| stopped in order to give the farmer a
chance to take the necessary precau-
tions. The farmer unh1tched his horse
and took him away from the road.
But as the auto was passing the place
the horse again was so scared that he
sank down and actually died on the
spot The horse was 10 years old, and
his owner had paid $57 for him a few
days previously.
The church Of the parish of LEX.
vattret, Varmland. has attracted ma
tion-wide attention. The local au-
thorities went to work to have the
interior Of the church building paint
ed with as little fuss as possible. But
the matter was reported to the ma
tional government, and in the course
Of time an order came from the king
himself that the work had to be
stopped at once. White paint had
been used. Now the work must be
done over again, because the national
government has decided that the
walls shall be painted red
Sweden now keeps one missionary
In heather lands for every $4,000 of
the population of Sweden. If all the
native workers at the different for
etgn missions Of Sweden are counted
the number will be one for every g..
800 persons living in Sweden, The
annual budget Of the missions Is $343,-
600. During the year 1911 the Swed-
ish missions sold $1,000 copies of the
Bible and $4,000 tracts were given
away. Seven higher institutions of
learning and 527 other schools were in
operation, the former having an at
| tendance of 185, the latter 1858.
There were also ten industrial schools
that had an attendance of about 400
Over 1000 children were cared for in
Is orphans asylums, the number of
| patients treated at the II hospitals
was 5000, and $4,000 cases were treat.
ed at "a clinics.
"Julstamning,' a Christmas publica.
ton issued at Gothenburg, is a fine il.
lustration of the ability of Sweden to
| turn out periodical literature of the
| highest grade. Outstanding is only
seven years old, but next Christmas il
will be issued in 100000 copies. The
artistic quality of the illustrations
may be inferred from the one fact
that rs different impressions will be
made. The publishers paper mill
will be kept busy for three months tt
produce the necessary paper, and the
entire edition will require 80 ordinar,
Swedish freight cars for transporta
ton. The popularity of the publica
ton is so great that in the past ever,
issue has been sold out before Christ
mas. Anders Zorn, Sweden's fore
most artist, has contributed no les:
than 30 pictures for the next issue.
Sven Abrahamson Of Litstarp, Haks
vik, completed his one hundredth yea1
the other day. Centenarians like sve1
are scarce. His mental capacities arr
In good condition. He can hear hi.
pastors sermon in church. He ia II
the habit of telling what his minis
ter said to him when he was prepar
ing himself for confirmation, in 1928
and his enlistment in the army, IL