Show NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM FROMI I THE OLD HOME Most Important Resume of the Most Important Events In Sweden Swede Norway and De Denmark Denmark- mark mark- Of Interest to to the tho Scandinavians Scandinavian In tn America NORWAY lORWAY A bit of ot the history of ot Norway has just been corrected Everybody In i Norway Is familiar with the statement that Premier wired BJornson BJorn BJorn- son to keep his mouth shut the of June 1905 the date of the dissolution of the union of ot Norway and Swed Sweden by the Norwegian glan The statement statement statement state state- ment worked admirably during that dangerous crisis and the real author did not care to spoil the f story tory by givIng giving giving ing the facts Exactly ten years later the real story was told by Mr Michelet Mich Mich- elet an editor In Bergen His correction correction correction tion Is as follows At 1 o'clock June 7 I took a a. trip uptown to feel teet the pulse of the public v Near the park promenade I met the late Nils Houge an ardent admirer of BJornson He accosted me in the following language language lan lan- guage But isn't he grand Have you seen what BJornson wired from Rome to l Now we have to stick together BJornson had written many many unwise things that year and in a fit of ot IL ii I happened to say Now it is time for him to keep his mouth shut The wit quick ted Nils Houge at once saw the point and proposed that we put the two statements In our our paper Accordingly we sat down to our Inthe in inthe inthe the Grand Cafe Cate garden and prepared the following for the paper Rome June 7 Premier Now w we e have to stick together Bj BJornson June 7 1905 BJ Lu BJornson Rome Rom Now you better keep your four jour mouth shut The whole stunt was intended as a Joke But the Joke proved to be so 80 pat that in spite of all denials and protests fr from m the alleged authors it spread in Norway and foreign countries countries countries coun coun- tries and later in the summer S it became became be came really unpleasant because the Swedish newspapers began to dilate on the shut mouth your policy of ot These These are the plain facts By the death of ot H. 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L Brakstad Norway Norway Norway Nor Nor- way has lost one of her most valuable represent representatives abroad For a great many years he lived in London Landon and by his contributions to the press he introduced the works of th tho th great poets of ot Norway to the he world BJornson used to boast that he himself represented Norway in Europe but it was rarely mentioned mentioned men men- tl ned that this was possible largely through the un untiring ring efforts of Brak stad In later years Edmund Gosse an Englishman an became the recognized authority on Ibsen and BJornson In Inthe inthe inthe the English speaking world but Brakstad Brakstad Brak stad was his teacher and indispensable counsellor e All the textile factories in Chris have been compelled to redu reduce e their output on account account of a general lack of ot dyestuffs Some of them have been closed down altogether Representatives Representatives of the leading firms made appeals to the German permit ermit the exportation of ot dyestuffs to Norway but all in vain Finally the government was induced to take a hand band in the matter and then the German German Ger man government permitted d tho the exportation exportation ex of ot 75 tons of aniline to Norway which will e the cotton and woolen mills to continue their work for another month and a half The tagging of fish has revealed some me remarkable migrations among among the finny finny tribes On July 18 1914 a tag bearing the number was attacked at attached attached tacked to a codfish at Bear Island In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Arctic ocean and Feb 26 1915 1916 the same same fish sh was Vas caught at Bodo Norway Last spring two other otter fishes tagged at the place and date first mentioned were caught still farther south namely one at Rost and one at These migrations Indicate that the codfish spend at least part of 0 the summer on the extensive banks ol of the Arctic ocean 0 Only two persons In both bothof bothof of ot them s now hold retail etall liquor licenses for tor life lite Now it is proposed that th the city buy their rights one oi of them to te receive the other a year for tor life ute Th The Norwegian Brewers Brewers' union hat has offered a a prize of ot for tOl the best malt barley raised in Norway It The peoples people's high school at atthe the the historic farmstead farmstead farm tarm stead was dedicated ted a short time ago ago Invitations had b been n sent to about sixty guests who were received with an address addres's of ot welcome welcom by bythe the principal pal Rasmus St ri President President ent of ot thE Castberg responded on oa on b be be- halt half of Gud Provincial Governor Governor II B. brecht also made an address In which he ho recalled the events which took place at Huntor when Saint Olav was WIlS king of ot Norway years ago There was a a general entertainment in t the e evening ri r |