Show CHAT FROM SCANDINAVIA At Bollntes plight earthquakes have been noticed at three different times during the last fifteen months II Lieutenant General Fabian Wrcde celebrated cele-brated his eightyninth birthday He is in tho best of health Linkoping has electric lights In two months motive power will be transmitted to the city from the Uygvarn waterfalls The increase In the publication of all kinds of periodical literature for the year ISJO was 13 per cent The Idle Mens Mnion is the name of a society just organized in Stockholm The date 1772 is inscribed on a clock belonging be-longing to Lena Karlsson of Getsjo It stopped this fall after an uninterrupted service ser-vice of 119 years iVya Nisid will be the name of a new Swedish PKCC that is soon to be published in Stockholm A dispatch from Dunkirk states that a Swedish journalist named Undgren has arrived ar-rived at that portfrom Gothenburg having made the voyage in an open boat The dimensions of this boat are Length 10 I feet width 0 feet TJnugiens only means of propelling his boat was by rowing He intends also to go to London and thence return I re-turn to Gothenburg XOR AT Norway has 730 physicians The Left was defeated in Christiania but polled fully double as large a vote as at tho last election Tho foreign commerce of Norway during tho first three quarters of tho current year amounted to s37735000 somewhat hiss than in each of the two immediate preceding preced-ing years During the first eight months of the year there were 296 business failures reported as compared with 217 in i the corresponding period last year The following extract from the North as to one of Bjornsons campaign speeches on the question of a separate minister of foreign for-eign affairs may bo rend with interest 1 Some of you perhaps know how we are disgraced by the present slate of affairs If a man ll root wants to get an invention patented in Norway where does he write to abcut it1ro Norway Oh no ho writes to Sweden Ana therethey write to Nor I wuy and then Norway writes back to i Sweden nnd Sweden carries the answer abroad Or if a business firm fails in i Franco and its connections hero in Norway are to be investigated the correspond once of the two countries is not carried on I direct but through the Swedish ministry of i foreign affairs which refeis tho matter to the Norwegian government Then the matter is looked up and the results are I communicated III the same roundabout way via bweden to France It Is just as I If Norway wore a baby and Sweden her nurse when somebody talks to the child i tho nurso answers for it Should a I j Norwegian while in foreign ports be I unfortunate enough to need help from his I own country to get homo the corrospond I enco has to pass through the Swedish authorities au-thorities No matter be it ever so little j concerning our merchant marine which ranks the third in the world but what it j I I I must be laid first before Sweden In tha eye of the outside world Sweden alone I nnd not we has anything to do with it A minister of foreign affairs of our owr will be so little some say Well we wont be I any bigger to be sure than we are ourselves our-selves But he will bo ours h DENMAHK A monument of Frederick VII was unveiled un-veiled the other day in Nykjopiug on the Faistor island A laborer of Esbjerg has just been married mar-ried for the tifth time Ho is not quite fifty years old yet A cannery will be established at Esbjerg by S A Abrabamsen who engaged in the cannery business on the Pacfic coast sometime some-time ago A new statue will be erected to the memory mem-ory of the agricultural chemist Tjord on the Laboratory square in Copenhagen Holder Draohman the author is to establish tablish a literary variety theatro in Copenhagen Copen-hagen Electric lights will probably soon be introduced in-troduced In the city of Soroe The Czar always proves himself generous I gener-ous when he visits Copenhagen At his I last visit two sergeants received gold medals and gold watches and every soldier stationed at Fredensborg received either money or valuables Their diamond wedding was celebrated by Niels Sorensen Hoelsel of Veile and h B wife The couple has ten children thirtyeight grandchildren and two great grandchildren TINLAND The Rev Emil Panelius who has been living in New York for some time has returned re-turned to Finland Three hundred old and rare coins were found the other day in the vicinity of Gam a Vasr Four of them weighed seven pounds together The big Thinnerjokl steam Sawmill was burned to the ground Anton Jokelainen was murdered the other day on a street In Viborg The murderer I mur-derer is unknown |