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Show SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP. PENINGS IN FAR OFF NORTHLAND. ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME. Resume of the Most Important Events in Sweden, Norway and Denmark Of Interest to the Scandinavians in America. NORWAY. A farmer at Uof lost three roosters, a fox being the guilty party. One morning as the farmer went to feed his pigs he was by no means unhappy when he could plainly hear that a dog was chasing a fox in a neighboring grove. As he listened a fox came-across came-across the field towards the house. The door of the pighouse was standing stand-ing open, and the fox ran in to get out of the way of the dog. The farmer dropped the pig feed and managed to close the door just as the fox was about to get out again. But now the man was in a quandary. lie had no weapon, and if he left the door It would fly open of its own accord. The best thing he could do was to yell for his wife. She heard him and came to his assistance. He picked up a stick, and when both of them crowded into the doorway he managed to get in without letting the fox slip out. Once in the pighouse he found it an easy matter to punish the fox for stealing steal-ing the three roosters. Thus at last the farmer got the better end of the-bargain. the-bargain. The German government transmitted transmit-ted to United States Ambassador Gerard a note justifying the sinking of the Norwegian steamship Tripel by a German submarine. The note says: "As stated by the German naval au- thorities, the Norwegian steamer Tripel, on November 10, 1010, was stopped by a German submarine and captured after it had been made certain cer-tain that the cargo was of steel, and under Italian war command, with Genoa as her port of destination. Since it was impossible in the prevailing pre-vailing circumstances to bring the steamer into a German port, the ship was sunk. Before this, sufficient time was left to the crew to leave the steamer. steam-er. The weather was very good and the Spanish coast was hardly ten miles away, so that full guaranty was given for the rescue of the crew." The roof of the stable of the Kjellbak farm, near Elverura, caught fire when only the children were at home. Six-year-old Asbjorn, the oldest of the four, proved himself a hero, and as wise as he was brave. The first thing he did was to run into the stable and untie the cow so that she could get out. Then he took an ax and broke a hole in the sheep-pen so that the sheep could save themselves. Then he ran two miles to Ostby for aid. Before leaving he ordered the smaller children chil-dren to stay away from the burning building, and they obeyed. They were huddled on the steps of the house when some men came to fight the fire. A letter from Vardo says : "Large flocks of reindeer from North Varanger have passed down to the coast districts and destroyed the wild hay. Partly in order to cover the damages and vindicate vin-dicate their rights, partly to demonstrate demon-strate the need of statutory remedies, a number of farmers went into the country and shot 30 deer, which they afterwards sold in Vardo. King Haakon In his speech from the throne at the reopening of the storthing, stor-thing, says a Reuter's dispatch from Christiania, referred to the constantly constant-ly increasing difficulties neutrals are experiencing owing to the war. He said the Norwegian government had endeavored to observe a strict neutrality neu-trality towards all belligerents. "God is all fools' guardian," said Captain Home when he went to take care of a marine mine which two men had picked up at Jaderen and rolled several hundred yards up from the place where it struck the shore. Oscar Holte, a noted skater in Trondhjem, has been urged to go to St. Morltz, Switzerland, to manage the Skating rink connected with Grand hotel ho-tel at that Place. Mr. Holte held that position once before. |