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Show . r . Ciirious enough, tlie sho makers' strike only lasted five -days, at the bosses agreed to the demands wade by their journeymen. In Frederickshald the tailor have struck for higher wages. A NOBLE LABORER'S LAST WILL. I-ately the last will ol Taikel Albert son, or Aske. who died in Stavnger about 25 vears at;o, came the needy in that citv to good account, when 35,000-crowns 35,000-crowns were distributed for various benevolent ben-evolent purposes. At his death he left but a few thousand crowns, and these he had saved Irom his hard earned wages as a common laborer. ' By his last will, this amount had drawn interest, and during a qnaiter of a century, had swelled to the large sum oi money, that by this noble disposition will long keep his name in rememberance in Ibe Community Com-munity where he lived, labored and saved for the benefit o4 others. , ;( I. ' BOOM IN HAR DANGER, ' the old home of . President Canute Peterson. Every where are seen preparations prep-arations going on to attract the thousands thou-sands of tourists that annually visit these rornanticscenes, but this year especially are expected in much greater ttumbeis. The old fashioned farm buildings are either giving way altogether for large coin xjiuiu modern hotels, or else the-are the-are so remodeled, that they would hardly be recognized by their former owners of a generation back. SWEDISH EMIGRANTS FOR KAZIL. ' A company, numbering 130 persons, mostly farmers and mechanics, have lately emigrated from their native laud to found a colony in the province Rio Grand d.) Sul, in Brazil. The most of them hailed from Scone, . and the ; Biazilian government, bears the expenses ex-penses and fiii nislies each family about j lilty acres of land when the emigrants j airive and settle down, Our Scandinavian Columns. . j C. C. A. Christensen, Translator. Great Swindle in Denmark. Suicide Among the Military in Copenhagen. Nowegian Carts for India. Boom in the Birthplace of j; Prest. PeterBon. Sweedish Emigrants Going to BraziUEtc. , Tramlaled tor lh KscnTIK. " About ten years n "Insurance Company" was organized in Copeu hagen, principally with the working people, and with a certain Mr. P. V Teener as chief, director, cashier, cletk, treausrer, and auditor. (Among other inducements held out to the poor people was this that tiiey could get insuied even if they were over seventy years old which no other msiiutioii of a similar kind could aff..d to do As beioie staled. Mr. Tesner was the sole trustee and office-holder, and made all regulations and bylaws to. suit his owu purposes; and 'hus had the power to turn uut any member of the organization, that in any wav should become obnoxious obnox-ious to him. Thougli the press in general gen-eral warned the people, yet this old bilk succeeded in getting quite a number num-ber of people to insure themselves and pay their hardeanied money to him; but when any one to.'k sick, and applied fur relief, thev were generally, either put off with talk, or else tinned -out all together. to-gether. Tnus the institution had at last THE CROWN PRINCB of Sweden is still lying very tick from lung catarrh, in Nizza in Southern France, , , been reaucea to twelve, nietnoeis; itiiu the police, who for some time, had kept an eye on these proceedings, now took an active part in the matter and arrested Sir. Tegner. ' During the preliminary; investigation, it was assrrtained, that the gtand swindler thus during ten years had robbed ttie laboring people of about 50,1x10 crowns, Xa ciown is-equal to 27 cents) and that ton, right under the very, riose of the police-atilltoi ities in 1 he , Capital ol I'enniarU. 1 ' ' ''"-'wAllUArtLE MRT1I DAY PRFSFNT. ' The crown princess il-uuPse of Denmark, Den-mark, lately tiiade thei governess and tutor ol her young children a birtli-day present in the shape of a S&i crown bill neatly folded in the shupe ,'of a lady's fan; Said Irtdv had evidently expressed express-ed B desire fof a new fas, but among the various presents brought her trom the royal cbildien, she in vaiii locked for the deted fah, till at last: he opened a .small; paper box, piaikvd "from' Louise," when she was liappdy stiipiised by the above silent ioned intinificeut gift. Tins iucideut brings ta-tajr minds a similar tiausaciion peifotmed by the late popular King ot J-teuiiiark. Kred--rick the 7th.! CAs a Ne'w ;Yca Gift he once piesented his aSwayst financially embarassed uncle, Piinca Ferdinand wall a volume, the leaves of which consisted"! con-sisted"! 6ve dollar notes, tTlie Piiuce received the inuinliceutj gift with thanks butsent word to the;royaj giver, that' he would be pleased td recejive the succeeding suc-ceeding volumes, The king shortly after sent hm another one, marked' "and and last volume.'..' j . - , -( TMB CZAR TO VlSlt DENMARK. . ' The Czar pi Russia With his family is again expected to spend a part of the summer in Fredensburg, with his wife's paierits i ihe king and queen of Oemnark. Tnese occasional visits to the little kingd mi, sesm tobe the only really happy days of the mighty "Ruler bver all ihe Russians." Rus-sians." In these days,' when public at tenlion has been turned towards Rusr sia on account oi its treatment towards political offenders, it might perhaps be interesting to some, to get a glimpse of this, ' seemingly most woderful of human beings, as he appears when in Denmark as the son-in-law of one of the weakest of crowned heads in Europe. In personal appearance he is a large well proportioned man, light haired iih a full heard and large blue eyes His "countenance shdws no signs ol cruelty, but rathet of a good natured jovial sort of a leliow, that tries to enjoy lifd.'-Often he has been witlout attendants atten-dants walking the street in Copem liifeen --of sometimes tiding iu a common com-mon bired"hack. but ol late he. has been more carefully guaided by detectives, on account of nihilistic attempts against his life, and even wheh he isjaway from homey though none has as yet been known have existed in Denmark. It is siid.too. that when in Kredeiisborg, the royal family and the family ot the mighty Czar throw off ail court etiquette and that they are living a real happy life as common citizens- 011 the most amiable terms among themselves and with all around them. His beautiful spouse, Dagmar, is the pride ai:d pet ol the Danish people in general. , ; SOICIDti IN THB MILITARY. burin.' the Passover Holidays, three recruits committed suicide in the barracks bar-racks in Sologadg. (Sijverstree). One of them hadmade several ..attempts be-foT be-foT ,rti3d been prevented by other parties; but at last succeeded in cutting his throat. One of the others took poison, aud the other hung himself. The one cotnmoii reason for these suicides was that the unfortunates were tired of soldiets' life j v'( N0RWB0IA1 CART GOING TO l!!D!A,''- : For those, who have seeu the Norwegian Nor-wegian .cart (Kariols) that much re' semtites those now o much in use here in San Pete, Utah, it will, no ,doubf, seem cuiious, that these odd Vehicles urtould find favor enough with '. foreign iters to be expotted to countries: so far off , ,i Six ol Ihese carts have lately beau shipped from Mr, Jorgensen's 'factoty In Siavinger, via Hull and Loudon fil India, to tlie order ot some British of-, ticers. stationed there. Last- vear the Sam .firm shipped some of these carls to America; and, at other times, idivetse European countries have received a share also, ' ' A BtO STRIKE. i Strike among the shoemakers hi Stayanger. 150 or 140 of the shoemakers shoe-makers and journeymen have struck (or twenty per cent higher wages. A rather bad time to strike now, as many poor people will go barelooted during the I summer any now! j f3Pv- -- - -. ' t ' |