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Show I , J 'w I Interesting IeW fnoig toeden, jktoBil end Denmark; i I ' Anew thurdi will be built In Utile- i j Had, not far from Llnltoplng ST, J j The oldest of Swedish clerKjmcn Is W j J 1'cv Nyman, of Tegene, who wasborn Ell ln ,8o ? J j Tlie city of 1 ule And Ofotcn, Norway, I I will probably toon be connected by a I railroad. f Influenza Is raging epidemically In 1 j I Inkoplng The public schools have fbeen closed. , J The new royal theater, which is now , I being built In Stockholm, will be one of ij j the finest ln 1 uropc. i i flic Urge mercantile firm of S nndl I Lamm, of Stockholm, has been forced f' to mako an assignment. I The Crown Prince Itussar Regiment R , 1 will have a new building In Malmo The lot alone costs fjooooo crowns. j ! Several buildings nt Vlntrosa, not fir from Orchro, were burned to the (.round Tvventy-sevcii cittlo were roasted to j. I v !' f I Olof Alfred Ikckman, one of the most l prominent lawyers of Stockholm, died ( at tho advanced age of sevcntyelght years . It Is n peculiar fact tint Stockholm, i which has only ajoooo Inhabitants, has j- I j n larger number of telephones thin any f ! v other city In the world, not even London , excepted. I j A new bishop will be elected In the t Llnkoplng stilt. The most prominent v . ' bishop ot that district was Kev Jacob j ; i Asel Undblom, who lived In the begin-fef begin-fef r nine l this century. J f Consul Aaplund, of I ulea his sold ' , I the giant Iron mines of Kuollvaara anil j ' I Sllbotjokko and the silver mines of li I Alkavaari and Vallatj to Count 1. A. j Ji 1 Posse. The price Is not known. i O Anderson member of the lower ' I house of the riksdag, has Introduce J a i I bill making confinement Injail for minor ' I olfenses conditional, that Is, the offender J 1 shall not be Incinerated at once but I ! only after the lipse of a certain period I i of time, provided he commits a second I ? crime during that period If, however, 1 1 he behaves well (luring that period he j I shall not be Imprisoned at all. i I Captain I(. Schcnstrom delUercd n ! f peculiar lecture before the students of t the Upsila university Its first part was , i devoted to n sweeping criticism of the ' ; social, moril and economical evils throughout the clvillied world Towird I the close the speaker proposed that the i i students of Sweden rise in the dignity , of their splendid manhood, trimple old habits and preiudlces under their feet , , and lead a healthy, mtural life in every I respect. As an entering wedge he t I would start a society whose members if. should pledge to be chaste, and frugal in ! their habits and not to Indulge hi strong drinks gambling etc. The proposition was received with Intense applause, and a committee wasIniniedlatelippolntcd to draft n constitution for n soclct), which It was proposed to call "Sweden Great Once More ". NORWAY. A new large Lutheran church will be built In Ilergcn krogh, the author and artist, Is writing writ-ing a new book The weather was ery unfavorable when the "Viking" was towed from Sindeljord to Cliristlanla. and nt times it looked nt If It would lie crushed by Ice. At Chrlstlanla, It was moored lie rr ' Pipers ' vlcks brvggcn, where It Ins been on exhibition, the admission King 5 ore, (H cents The union question wilt evidently soon be brought up fur discussion in the storthing. 1 he oificlals uf the nnlional Fiovcrmncnt and the speakers of the two louses have had Joint meetings, and the other day the liberal members of the storthing held a caucus, the results nre as yet unknown The new "centre" or moderate pirty finds it difficult to formulate n plitform on which any lirgc number of Intelligent people can stand. The list break In attempts nt plartform linking Is the following plank: ' Thoroughly convinced convinc-ed that any Norwegian government In the future negotiations with Sweden relating to the union will milntain that Norway his the sime rights as Sweden we arc of the opinion tint It is now time lor ncgotlillons " Several numbers num-bers hive nlrenly left the organization representing the "centre," on the S round that n parts which Is convinced, lit any paity will do whit ought to bo done thereby declares that there Is no rcison for its existence IlKNMAKk. Tho "I hlngvalli steamer I Ickli" Ins been ready to leave for America for over n month. This steamer Is to carry the exhibits of Denmark to New York but it cannot get away on account of tlie Ice. Severil thousand passengers nro also waiting for a chance to cross the ocelli. In commenting on the attempt of the conservatives to cxcludo the reporter of the Jblitilrn from the sessions of the Klksdig, tint paper sa)S ' Danish poll tics consists very lirgcly in a fight against the liberal press. The press of I urope cv en tho conscrv atlvo papers has sided with the lUititen In this ridiculous ridi-culous mess |