Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-05-06
IN FAR N0RTHlAIVD.
Important Events in Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
interesting Items From the Three
Great Kingdoms Of the North Sc.
iected for scandlnavians and
Their Descendants.
BY MARTIN w. ODLAND.
Norway.

BY MARTIN w. oDLAND.
Norway.
According to press dispatch from
Bergen, an invention of great impor-
lance to the fishing industry has re-
Gently been made by Henrik Bull,
chemist at the Bergen experiment sta
ton. The invention has to do with
a new process of freezing fish for
transportation in fresh condition. In
the past the usual method pursued has
been to freeze the fish in water. The
new process freezes the fish in frame
enclosed by wire netting and suspend
ded in solution of ice and salt, the
process occupying three or four hours.
BY the new process up to 20 per cent
of space may be saved in packing,
which will immensely reduce trans
portation charges.
Albert Gran, the Nerwegian-Ameri-
can actor, celebrated his twenty-fifth
anniversary as an actor. Gran is a
native of Bergen, Norway, and ap-
peared for the first time on the stage
In that city. Some years later he
went to London, where he attracted
the attention of Sir Henry Irving, Eng.
lands greatest actor, and began play
ing parts in English plays. He spent
seven years In Australia and of late
has acted in the United States. He
has played with such famous Ameri-
can actors as Richard Mansfield,
Fanny Davenport and Mrs. Fiske, and
has made an enviable name in the
theatrical world.
Miss Molla Bjurstedt, who holds the
tennis championship of Norway, and
who now works as nurse in New
York city, has won the indoor tennis
championship of the United States.
She competed at the last Olympic
tournament winning third place. Some
of the leading newspapers of America
have devoted columns of space in
their Sunday editions to this remark
able girl athlete, and she has become
one Of Norway's most celebrated
daughters.
Shakespeare's Much Ado About
Nothing was recently presented at
the National theater of Christiania
with great success. 1t was received
with marked approval, the actors be-
Ing called out at the end of each act.
Mrs. Dybwad, in particular, came in
for high praise. That Shakespeare
would so captivate and charm a Morse
audience rather indicates a reaction
against the modern realistic drama in
Norway.
Sandefjord recently experienced the
most destructive fire that has raw
aged it since the year 1900, when
half the city was laid in ashes. In
the recent fire two lives were lost,
thirteen families were made home
less, and sixteen business buildings
burned down. The property loss is
placed at a quarter of a million dol
lars.
Dispatches from Copenhagen and
elsewhere report the presence of many
warships off the coast of Norway. An
Anglo-French fleet was sighted north
OF Stavanger, it is reported, and a
herman squadron in the North sea,
not many miles from the Morse coast.
Christiania has been a prosperous
and growing city for several genera
uons, but seems to have suffered a
setback. In February, 1914, the city's
population was 251,446. while in Feb
ruary, 1915, it was only 250,732.
Inc value of German money in Nor
way has declined, while that of Eng
hsh money has gone up. The Ger
man mark Is now only SO ore; the
English pound is worth 1851 crowns;
the American dollar, ATT crowns.
quite a number of horses are be-
ing shipped out of Norway on account
OF the war, and the prices are about
as high as they were last fall-S00
crowns on an average.
The whaling society, Hector" has
hhished its catch at South Shetland |
1or this season, and has been more
successful than ever before.
Inc fishing at Lofoten islands was |
not particularly profitable the last sea-
SON The catches were not large, and |
the bait was unusually high.
A new public school building will |
oe erected at cost of 507 900 crowns
N the eastern portion of the city of
stavanger.
Wrong.
binx-Somebody has misinformed |