Show THE FAR NORTH SWEDEN the total enrollment of the public schools of gothenburg gothenberg Got henburg is the salvation army of helsingborg Hels ingborg has dedicated a hall of its own john burns the english labor agitator is said to have been invited by the swedish democrats to lecture in stockholm and other places representative bisky distillers from different localities held an informal meeting at Lin koping and decided to reduce the production about io 10 per cent during the coming season john of stockholm who has just been elected to fill a vacancy in the lower house of the dag is a son of consul of helsingborg Hels ingborg now a member of the upper house what makes this singular case still more in te resting is that mr junior is a liberal and ana a free trader while mr chisson senior is a conservative and a high tariff man of the oost radical type A rich landlord named at was charged by the local paper with abusing a poor woman he sued the paper for libel and the editor had to pay a fine but this did not end the matter when this case was disposed of the charges were investigated and found to be justified and the landlord had to pay a fine too plain people are naturally bonde wondering ring i why the editor was fined for simply telling th toe e truth at a mass meeting at west the following questions were answered in the affirmative against one vote Is it not the duty of every christian to use all legitimate means in in opposing the extension of compulsory mili military tiry service Is it proper that the right of suffrage be extended Is it proper to agitate for a general prohibition of the sale of intoxicating drinks in all cashes cadies the he negative vote was cast by the pastor of the place at a suffrage meeting at gene lector expressed himself in favor of a somewhat extended guffra suffrage e but shrank back in horror for the allea idea that some time in the future even pau pers rs 1 might be allowed to vote to this ur dr knute replied when mr sooner or later withdraws from acting life to live on his pension bension without working he too strictly F y speaking will be a pauper who is supported by others this brought down the house but energetic hisses were also heard the fight against the swedish system of free masonry is being vigorously pushed by bjornson in a recent newspaper article he takes the swedish free masonry greatly to task concluding the article mr B says the lorder of the minister of war of saxony prohibiting prohibiting the officers of the army fr from M being eing members of such a society sheild should under the difficult political conditions prevailing here be applied to all citizens without exception mr nobel a swede has ordered a steam yacht made of aluminum at the shops of escher wyss and co zurich switzerland and a trial tri trip was made on the lake by that city a g short ort time ago its silver colored hull and smokestack give live it a peculiarly attractive appearance ft it is 40 40 feet long and 6 feet wide and draws 23 feet of water and will be used asa as a pleasure steamer on the mediterranean sea the manufacturers consider it uch such s a success that they have commenced to construct another steamer of aluminum which is to be taken apart and carried to the great lakes of central africa NORWAY bergen during last season was visited bf by tourists arriving from abroad direct d by steamer among the exhibits at a recent coun try fry fkr fair ift at lyster was a skein of woolen firsti rn spun by a lady years of a age e kirsti skogen of sk Ski skjolden ollen olden p parish I 1 arish she was present hersleff ind and also had the 15 pleasure leasure of rec receiving eiring a prize for her yarn yam A proposition to create a state monopoly fl 0 ly of the manufacture and sale of liquor quor has been considered and rejected ty the stavanger Sta vanger municipality it was instead tead decided to continue the liquor association on somewhat better terms for the public than heretofore the norwegian fisheries exhibition at chicago contemplates a complete collection of export articles in original packages of food fishes of birds that prey upon these or follow the shoals in in the sea of dressed and undressed seal skins of implements used in and products of the whale fisheries of boats such as full sized models of the various types used along the coa coast st of scientific works relating to the fisheries fi ceries drawings arid and plans of the biological and experimental stations and illustrations resenting presenting lifelike pictures of the great gerring herring and cod fisheries off the west and north coast mr V whose alleged aavo cacy bicy of the surrender to russia of an open harbor on the norwegian coast has formed the foundation of so much political liti 1 cal indignation blames an erroneous newspaper report for having started ct the yarn Speak speaking inz at lillehammer in september 1890 on the question quest tm ibn of universal peace he argued against the advocates of a strong national defense that the relations between the various nations in due time would be those of good neigh neighbors bois thus if one of these should need a pathway through the others field the I 1 latter atter if at all a reasonable man would interpose no objection for instance he continued tf if russia as claimed by the national defense speakers needs an open harbor in norway the time would allow russia to trade via one ot of their ports with without 0 t there being any more danger or anju injury connected with this concession than if one man gets permission to make a path across the field of his neighbor A conservative serva tive paper reported mr as having declared in favor of ced ceding a port to russia thus starting a falsehood which appears to have traveled too fast t for any denial and correction to overtake it in his article on Bjorn bjornson in the review of reviews mr chr collin referring to a critical period in recent norwegian politics gives the following interesting bit of of inside history heretofore not very generally known only once I 1 think in Bjorn sons career did matters look as if he were going to be put back from the real modern combat into something like the old saga conditions this was during the great political crisis which ended in the Rigs ret or impeachment of the whole conservative ministry it was then generally gep rally believed that if the king and his councillors should baffle or object the judgement jud gement of the supreme court their action would lead to a civil war and thus far bring back the times of olav the saint and offing of king sverre to counterbalance the fear of swedish troops being marched into norway the liberals founded rifle corps all over the country Bjorn bjornson being one of the instigators of this movement and he crystallised crystallized crystalli sed his combative feelings into the fhe spirited cheerful words of a Ri flemens songs bjornson left norway in the autumn of 1882 after having helped his friends at the elections to send an overwhelming liberal ma majority 0 r it Y to the Stor thing to go to paris to d do 0 literary work between the bittle battle 11 but in in case swedish troops had invaded norway and occupied the eastern pats parts of the country bjornson was determined to take up arms and start a guerilla war from the western fjords and highlands DENMARK nothing of importance has so far been done by the present session of the dag the Son enborg estate at hillerod Lill erod has been sold to some copenhagen parties for niels hogh a danish sculptor who has spent six years in paris has just returned to copenhagen A correspondent of the berlin tar tag blat writes from dresden the danish author gjellerup kjellerup who lives here has written a ww new drama in course of the summer the subject is taken from the history of denmark the piece which is to be be presented on the stage of copenhagen in the first place is being translated into german and will be sent into german 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