The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-07-11
SWEDEN.


Tjarby, died at the age of seventy
eight. He was not a man WHO put his
stamp on his contemporaries. But this
was due not to lack of natural gifts,
but to unfavorable circumstances.
'"Thumping and whipping, scoIding
and quarreling, distress and starva-
ton made of him an odd person"
Bengtsson was thrift personified. He
used to tell that in all his life he had
wasted only three ore, that is, about
three-quarters of one cent. That event
took place at DahOlm, on natal day,
when he bought a quart Of lean beer.
It is further told that he once bought
a secondhand pair of shoes for $1.90,
and he made them last for 80 years by
mailing tinplate under the soles, and
using them only when necessary that
is to say when he went to church or
attended some highly important func-
ton. He went to church often, but
he was barefooted when the weather
permitted TT. In order to save an extra
penny he once made an agreement with
kthe farmer for whom he worked not
to eat pork for a whole year, on con-
dition that his pay should be $6.75
higher than otherwise. He had a
great reputation for taking good care
of the stock put under his charge. A
few years ago he gave $500 to the poor
people of the community, and on an
other occasion he gave chandelier to
his church.
German submarines and light war
craft, together with Zeppelins, are con-
tinuing their activities in the Gulf OF
Bothnia. Hardly day passes without
one or more Scandinavian vessels be-
ing sunk. The Zeppelins scout regu-
larly along the Swedish coast line, &C.
casionally coming inside the territorial
limits. A Swedish naval patrol drove
away a Zeppelin to the eastward Of
Stockholm. Recently the Swedish tor
pedo boat Castor rescued Denmark
largest sailing vessel, the Per Upland,
from capture.
Both chambers of the riksdag have
Endorsed the proposition of the gov
eminent to the effect that the rule re-
curing the retirement of public school
teachers at the age of sixty should be
enforced only in cases where the To-
cal school authorities find such re-
tirement will be a distinct benefit to
the school work. But exceptions from
the rule shall be permitted oply dur
ing this year and the next.
The government has asked for an ap-
preparation of $4,000 900 for the es-
tablishment Of an asylum for 1000 in
sane people and 200 imbeciles whose
low mentality precludes ordinary edu-
cation.
The city Of Stockholm III going to
buy large tract Of land known as the
Skarpnack property in Brannkyrka
parish. The exact price is not known
but it will run up into millions of
kroner.
| Line udllO1ld1 lOOu
asked the government for $675,OO0 fol
the purchase of butter in Denmark
There is a chance to get 40 tons OF
Danish butter week.
One million salmon fry were set fre<
last spring in the Lagan river al
Ysby.
The railway department has in
dorsed a proposition made in the sec
ond chamber of the riksdag to max
an inquiry with regard to the merg
| ing of the private railways into tn
state railway system. The question
of renting private railways by tn
government is to be considered at tn
same time.
Windmills used to be numerous II
Upland. Now they are passing ava!
one after another. The timber ant
iron used in their construction ars sol,
at high prices.