The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-02
NORWAY.


successive industrial promoter in Nor.
way, is planning a new enterprise. He
owns the Sande and Thon farms in
Jarlsberg, and here he is going to
construct garden and greenhouses on
large scale. Fifty acres will be de.
voted to the raising of young trees, rs
acres to vegetables, and II acres to
fruit trees, hothouses and hotbedS
The great aim is to make Norway in.
dependent Of the foreign vegetable
market partly by raising vegetables,
partly by teaching others to raise
them. All the products will be sold
only to wholesalers who pledge them.
selves to retail the goods at reasonable
rates. Among the products mentioned
are asparagus, Strawberries, raspber.
ries and pie plant. All fumbling will
be avoided from the very start, for
Sam Eyde has engaged some of the
ablest gardeners of the country to con-
duct the work. There will also be
few foreign experts among them. The
county gardener, Stem Stenerson, OF
Aarnes, will be the superintendent OF
the plants. Many young men will take,
practical courses in gardening this
spring, so that the rest Of the country
may be benefited by the institution .
year from now.
When Henrik Ibsen was manager Of
the Bergen theater in the fifties Of the
last century he became acquainted
with Miss Rikke Hoist. He was twen-
ty-five and she was eighteen years old.
He became so fond of her that he
immortalized her by his poem, "Wild
Flowers and Potted Plants" Miss
Hoist afterwards married merchant
named Tresselt, and sent the poems
to a lady friend of hers, and they final
~ came into the hands Of I. Rome
a widow, has sued Rome Petersen to
recover the poems, and both lower
court and the supreme court have de-
cided that he must give up the poems.
He must also pay the costs, which
amount to about $40, and fixed fine
for every day that he keeps the poems
in his possession. The value of the
poems has increased a few million
times since they were written about
sixty years ago.
The experience of the Norwegian
steamer Mamma was highly humiliating
and distressing. It came across a dis
abled German submarine IN the North
sea and, in the spirit Of the Good
Samaritan, proceeded to tow it to Ger.
many. Off the coast Of Upland the
hawser broke, and the Mamma signaled
for help. No less than eight German
torpedo boats appeared. The crew OF
the Mama was ordered below decks
and both the Mamma and the subma
rine which she tried to save were
taken to Cuxhaven. It was said that
the Germans refused to conduct the
Mamma through the mined zone. The
Mamma was afterwards taken to Ham
burg. The Norwegian authorities arr
endeavoring to have the ship released
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On February L the norwegian uer
chant marine consisted of 3,4OO vessel!
of 100000 gross tons. This has beer
very materially reduced by the Ger
man submarines since that time.
The value of Norway's fisheries il
1915 was $4OO00,000 as against $40,
100000 in 1914, according TO statistic
prepared by the Norwegian fishing
controllers.
Otto Albert Blehr, one Of the lead
ing statesmen of Norway for quas
ter of century, was seventy years oil
last winter. He entered the storthinl
in 1883, and the next year gave lega
Iadvice in the Impeachment cas-
against the Stang cabinet. For year
he represented Norway in Stockholm
4 and in 1902 he became premier o
Norway, in which position he did
great deal to prepare Norway for tn
dissolution of the union with Sweden
which came In 1905.