Show scandinavian NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of the mot most important Import important ani evently eventa in sweden norway and denmark of interest Int erett to the scandinavians in america SWEDEN public att attention britlon has recently boea been drawn to an all autodidact who has been at work namely johan lorde forde liti foreman of public improvements Improve menta of the city of visby who has been studying the archeology archaeology arche ot 0 that city with a never flagging interest in conducting the alio work of putting down water malins mains and electric conduits lie he had a opportunity to learn the topography of the ancient as well as the medieval or visby the result of lordell Fordell ns nt researches now appears in tho the form fonn of charts arid sketches showing the minutest details of what may be of any interest among what has been struck in the excavations the task which mr fordella Fordel ln has accomplished so BO quietly and unostentatiously has been recognized in higher circles and it haz has been proposed that the city of visby procure some of 0 ills hia drawings and charts and that an appropriation lation be made for dusol assisting ting him in it continuing ills his researches arid and making tile the work more complete tho the careful drawings of mr Fordel fordello ln even in their present condition give a good view of the surface of the ground during tile the stone age and the age as well as of the extent of the improvements prove Proven ments lents in those ages 0 ono one of the leading men of ahn amerlean company has stated that tho the company so BO far has not dared to order the necessary steamers A comparatively small amount ali lount of money remains to be subscribed bed but the directors have decided to make no vigorous effort to reach the amount decided upon until it la it definitely settled whether the city of Got gothenberg gothenburg henburg Is going to abide by its subscription of something like our national government was called upon to interfere but the matter has baa not been settled yet As soon as the government has handed down a dual decision no matter what its character may inay be the company will at once proceed to rude rade the balance of the capital stock among tile the swedish americans americana another reason for moving slowly Is that on account of 0 the war it Is difficult to get suitable steamers built in Hn england gland 0 0 A treaty w was as ratified in petrograd Petro grad between sweden and russia mutually acknowledging the financial commercial and industrial interests of the respective spec tive 9 countries coming nt at this time the signing of a treaty between russia and sweden would seem to be more than ordinarily significant it if the new agreement indicates a removal of many of the causes of differ enle enie between sweden and russa it means a considerable victory for the of tile the allies for sweden it at the outbreak of the war was almost st the only country in the world which could be said bald to be pro german there vas considerable german sentiment in Ho llanil and switzerland and more in bulgaria Dul garla but sweden wits vas strong strongly jy against the allies the second chamber of the as a subsidy to the national nut ional bureau ot of information of the temperance organization this la is what m nu ay bo be called a startling item of ex expense perse hut buit this year it was as serl bously the me argument against the appropriation was tho the fact that ihal tile tha temperance bureau had made a bad break by stating that a certain minister was opposed to the temperance work while wi as a matter ot of fact lie he had heen been a temperance worker I 1 ahe he bureau afterwards apologized for its break but this did not prevent the anti members of the rigs dag from making use of the incident for all it was worth the voto vote in the second hamber chamber was to 67 during it a J arp ri night a tm decided to make a i visit tr in n nar ar at I 1 nord mek mi nt i k parish arl 1 I Var inland tho the only available entrance under the stances was aas tile tho ventilator the passage was nar narrower narro Mtr nt at tho lower end and the man got goi stuck completely stuck much mia he lind had to stay for five hours before being released not to Il liberty berty however but only to be taken to tile the office of the sheriff 4 two committees of the have agreed by a unanimous vote to propose a revision of tile the working mens pension laws in ill the interest of tho lie beneficiaries some vory very hit interesting statistics havo been collected with reference to the physique of tile the swedish soldiers exact records of tile measurements of the recruits at tile the time of enlistment since the year 1887 have been kept A compilation of the figures shows that the height of tile the recruits ims bits increased steadily from year to year and the total average increase during the years 1887 1916 wits was no less iona than one and one tenth inches tile the proportion of recruits of maximum height lo 10 0 o tie whole number of recruits has almo increased Increase il from 01 to 03 per cent |