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Show NORWAY. The oldest man of Sondmor ts saia . to be Ola Eidem of Grevstaddalen, Sokelven. He Is over one hundred years old. Until very recently he was puttering with some kind of work every ev-ery day, but now he stays in bed most o the time. In his palmiest days he was a man of tremendous strength. He could pick up a barrel of herring and lug it away with ease. But his greatest experience was the way he once assisted in killing a "Christmas hog." It was a great big lobster, which would not stand still so that the stunning blow could be landed on his forehead. Then it was that Ola took hold of the hog by the ears and held him tight by sheer force. But not long enough. The hog broke loose just as the man with the ax was ready for business. The hog ran away. But Ola held a hog's ear In each hand ! This happened long ago. Now Ola feels that he has had his share of this world, and he would be glad to move on to the next. Prof. Johan Storm, who was connected con-nected with the University of Norway from 1874 to 1912, has completed his eightieth year. As a linguist he emphasized em-phasized the importance of phonetics, and by means of this emphasis he almost al-most revolutionized the study of languages lan-guages In Norway. He was an enthusiastic en-thusiastic language reformer, that Is, he was an advocate of pure Norwegian Norwe-gian as distinguished from the ordinary ordi-nary Norwegian-Danish book-language. But he was not so fanaticnl as many of the leading language reformers are. On the whole, Professor Storm was i man who took nctive part In solving solv-ing the problems of everyday life. The food commission of Kristianla has fixed the maximum price of butter at 53 cents a pound. The Ask estate, Ringerike, has been sold to City Engineer Vibe of Horten for $270,000. The new owner Intends to build a sawmill and a factory for a new kind of cement. The motive pow-ir pow-ir will be furnished by the Sorgefoss water falls. The present garden will be greatly enlarged. The new Improvements Im-provements are expected to cost about $150,000. The commune of Modum has hired a dentist to take enre of the teeth of the children of the commune. His salary Is to be S1.0S0 a year. |
