Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-04-17
NORWAY.

The German steamer, Peravia, car.
rying a cargo of iron ore from Mar
wick, Norway, to Rotterdam, Holland,
must have been lost with all on board.
Only a few scraps of the ship drifted
ashore at Warndalen. The ship had
a crew OF 80 men.
The copper mines in Grong, Nam
dalen, are to be worked on a large
scale. French capital is invested in
the enterprise. The distance to the
nearest country road is 20 miles, and
100 miles to the nearest seaport, Nam
SOS. About 200 men are to spend a
year in building roads to the mines
Two automobiles are to run regularly
from Namsos to the end of the road
leading to the range.
The house rent is exorbitant in
nearly all of the large cities in Nor.
way. The building laws are blamed
for the house famine. The city gov,
eminent of Trondhjem has made an
urgent appeal to the labor department
to change the laws and bring relief
The walls are to be made so thick
and the stairways and the outside
surface have to be made so expensive
that the rent has to be put so high
as to be almost prohibitive.. Many
citizens move out into the country
to get some sort of housing.
A sensational lawsuit has just been
settled by the municipal court OF
Kristiania Sven Aarrestad, the most
prominent temperance agitator and
governor of Bratsberg, was accused
of grossly immoral conduct by the
daily Verdens gang. He tried to in
duce the paper to retract, but when
he failed in this attempt he sued the
paper for libel. Many witnesses were
heard, but the charges fell fiat to the
ground. In the eyes of the law the
editor, Mr.. NJ. Mjelde, was the respons
ible party, and he was sentenced to
Imprisonment for three months. He
will also have to pay costs amounting
to $500. The paper will have to pub
lish the decision in full or pay a fine
OF IS a day indefinitely.
The old Norsemen were supposed to
have tremendous appetites, and yet II
is an actual fact that the consumption
Of food has increased every year since
their time. For instance. where three
bushels of grain per individual sufficed
in the eighteenth century, no less than
eight bushels per individual had to
be imported last year. Similarly
each inhabitant got along very vel
on a little more than two pounds Of
sugar a hundred years ago. Now he
must have thirty-two pounds. Coffee
followed sugar faithfully for a while
but gave up the race when 1t reached
thirteen pounds per individual. The
only item on the list Of imports which
has gone down is that of tobacco
During the last thirty years alone
it has decreased from 2.6 pounds tC
IA pounds per individual.
In proportion to the population Of
the country, the commerce and ship
ping of Norway is the greatest in the
world. The estimated carrying power
| of its mercantile marine per 1000 in
habitants is very nearly 1900 tons
while that of England, ranked as mum
| Der one among the powers of the ship
ping world, amounts to a little more
than 600 tons per 1000 population.
AS nine young men were rowing tc
their ship in the harbor at Fredriks
hald the boat capsized and seven OF
them were drowned. One Of those
that were saved swan to the shore
the other to his ship.
More than 5000 vessels carry the
Norwegian flag, and represent nearly
2,5O0,0 tons, thus placing Norway
fourth on the shipping list of the
world, next to the United States. At
the present time the Norwegian mer-
camille marine performs about ten
times as much work as 1t did half
century ago.
Hausesurd has exported $4,000
boxes ~ herring to GermanyNapd Eng.
land. The proceeds were about $780,
900.
At ski run in Ribas, Spain, the
Norwegihns won the first and the
second frize and Swede the third.