Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-06-05
NORWEGIAN BUILDS
CHEAP AEROPLANES
CONSTRUCTS AIR CRAFTS AT $500
THAT WOULD COST
$1,000 ABROAD.
DENMARK SWEDEN FINLAND
Summary Of Weeks Happenings
Terseiy Told in Brief Items
by Special Cores
pondent.
NORWAY.

py Speciai CORES
pendent.
NORWAY.
An engineer named Nielsen has been
engaged in building aeroplanes at Lii
lestrom. One machine will soon be
finished and another may be ready
next summer. Mr.. Nielsen is badly
handicapped in many ways. Some of
the minor parts have to be made with
great exactness either in Kristiania or
at the Kongsberg arms factory. In
order to save money many copies OF
these parts have been made at the
same time for machines that are to be
finished in the future. Only wiring.
propellers, textiles, and motors have
been imported from abroad. Every
thing else has been made in Norway.
Each aeroplane, not including the
motor, will cost about $500, while if
ordered abroad machine of the same
type would cost $4,000.
A new law provides that everybody
shall report his income and capital to
the authorities as a basis for taxation.
The result of this new order of things
is not yet known in Kristiania, as it
will take a long time to schedule the
total results. But in the smaller
places, where the results are known.
the taxable incomes and capital have
increased in a marked degree, all the
way from 20 to rs per cent of the
former tax figures. This shows an
honest tendency in the people. But
it is suspected that the socialists and
officeholders will utilize the new order
Of things for the purpose of squeezing
still larger amocnts out of the pockets
of the people, and it may be under
stood that this is not very desirable in
q community where the taxes are al
ready from 10 to Is per cent Of
mans income.
The Hydro manufacturing company
has patented its method of concen-
trating nitric acid in nearly all coun-
tries. II is used successfully at the
Engene dynamite factory. At the
Rjukan plant concentrated nitric acid
is produced by the new method at
the rate of 10000 pounds year. The
production will be gradually increased,
and in 1916, when Rjukan ii will be
fully developed, the annual output will
be 10000 pounds Of nitric acid of SO
per cent purity. The production pays,
and no curtailment OF this depart
ment is contemplated. There is a
brisk demand for the article, Germany
alone consuming 10000 pounds of
nitric acid year for explosives.
Syvert Fonstelien. of Opdal, cut his
leg badly while working in the woods
about three miles from his home. The
only thing he could do was to start for
home. Then he filed a buckskin
needle until its edges became sharp
and sat down to sew up the cash. He
did not tie a knot for each stitch. as
physicians do, but he pulled the whole
length Of the thread at every stitch.
The first stitch hurt little." he said
afterwards, "but after that ! might
have sewed a whole yard"
A girl who was to be confirmed in
Kristiania could not prove by docu-
mentary evidence that she had been
baptized, and it was suggested that
she be baptized at any rate to be on
the safe side. But she stubbornly re-
fused Finally an old woman testified
that she had seen midwife baptize
the girl at the time of her birth. The
parents of the girl as well as the
midwife were all dead. The test-
mony was accepted, and the girl con-
firmed with her class.
The receipts of the railways of Nor
way for the year 1912 were s7.4l8,600,
which was an increase Of S475,000 in
one year. The number OF passengers
carried was 100000 and the number
of tons OF freight handled was $780,
900. The accidents were very few.
Two passengers and three railway
men we're killed, and one passenger
and nine railway men were injured.
A private organization Is raising
money for a public museum Of archi-
lecture for the country around Trond-
hjem. and now the public will be asked
to take hold of the matter. 1t is pro
posed to locate the institution al
Sverresmyr, way above the city of
Trondhjem. Many buildings are men,
toned as worthy of being preserved
at a museum.
The Seljord commune is going to
buy the Eismark falls for building
public power station. The price
agreed on is $1,000.
The number of tourists visiting
Kristiania last year was about $4,000
and the prospects are equally bright
this year.,
A landslide struck the property Of
the depot agent, Steen. at Aadalen.
Two horses were killed, and build
ing was partly destroyed. Mr.. Steen
was a poor man. and the neighbors
went to work and raised $1,000, which
was presented to him as a gift. They
did not ask for contributions outside
OF the settlement.
The returns of the fisheries were
about $13,250,000 in 1901. in 1911 they
we're up to s25.5O0,OoO. In other
words, they almost doubled in ten
years. This was due largely to i'm
proved methods in catching and hand
ling the fish.
According to mortality statistics for
the city of Bergen by DR.. Klaus Han
sen, the rate of deaths due to tuber-
culosis has been reduced so per cent
in 20 years. Many things have con-
tributed to this reduction. There is
reason to believe, however, that the
systematic work carried on by the
Bergen anti-tuberculosis. committee to
aid those who have suffered from tub
erculosis and to prevent the spread
ing OF the disease, has contributed to
the accomplishment of this satisfac.
tory result.
Emigration ID considerably larger
now than a year ago.