Show THE FAR NORTH SWEDEN the health of the queen is improving stockholm will have a new evening paper prince eugen associates more with young and poor artists than with army officers two of the sons of the crown prince F have taken a course in at a stockholm public school the G W linderoth watch company stockholm will send an exhibit to th the worlds fair the first woman in the world who rode on a bicycle from landskrona Lands krona to the island of hveen was miss the oldest church register in stockholm that of Stor kyrka beginning with the year 1609 will soon appear in in print mrs J nyman ot of stugun donned male attire last fall and has assisted her husband cutting logs in the pin eries all winter the young christian association of Norr koping has a membership of and the receipts for the year 1892 were over verner von Heid enstam who has settled at stockholm is writing a fistori historical cal novel from the age of charles XII with which he has familiarized himself by comprehensive researches mrs smedberg of sundsvall Sund who has spent about a year in jail because she refused to take the prescribed oath before the courts was taken before the court again a few days ago to testify in an important octant abortion case but she remained E firm rm and was re incarcerated mr 1 ljungman jungman a member of the lower h house bouse of the dag has already drafted a bill attempting to settle the consular and diplomatic service questions he proposes that the first article of the new union act read as follows the kingdom of sweden and norway each of which shall remain a free indivisible independent kingdom shall be lubly united under one king on a basis of neutral equality as prescribed by this act affairs of mutual interest to both shall be governed by common laws ratified by the king and representatives from both nations peace and war are always affairs common to both countries the minister of foreign affairs shall be either a S wede swede or a norwegian the bill has not received any support to speak of but it serves to show which way the wind blows in this highly ticklish question norway A safety lamp invented by L bristol a nor norwegian w e an is being introduced in hacks anai and carriages in london two small children at a house in were left alone for a few minutes and when their parents returned they were both found drowned in a tub of water A violent storm has played havoc with the fishermen at lopoten and vesteria Vest eraa len the reports are as yet very meagre but it is estimated that no less than lives were lost on the sea mrs camilla collet is one of the very few norwegian authors who have reached the age of eighty since the time of holberg lberg only two authors the brothers klaus and peter frimann have passed the eightieth year those two having died at the ages of eighty three and eighty seven respect respectively ivel 1 the ages of some of the oldest autho authors rs are given below M B landstad seventy eight M I 1 monrad seventy seven lyder sagen asbjornsen A munch bernt lund and magdalene seventy three henrik ibsen sixty three and B bjornson 60 60 the average of norwegian authors is considerably below that of danish authors and two of the leading poets henrik and ole vig died at the ages of thirty seven and thirty three respectively DENMARK A copenhagen woman who was left by her husband a number of years ago toiled along as best she could for a time supporting herself and her little daughter but her strength gave way and she applied to the poor board for aid she received a month and a loaf of bread a week this did not help much for she had to pay a month for the wretched little room in in which she lived one evening late both she and her daughter were found dead she had put an end to their suffering by strangulation baron wedell while trav traveling bling in in armenia was subjected to a strange and e exceedingly dangerous treatment by the natives of that benighted country on a morning ride he chanced to come to a meeting house where the natives were praying enraged at his presence they proceeded to lay idy hands on his person in the last extremity he fired his revolver to scare them away but he was overpowered tied to the tail of a horse and thus dragged to a neighboring village where he was released his nervous system terrI especially the brain received such a shock however that he had to be sent to a danish hospital one of the peculiarities of his ailment is that he cannot possibly wear a hat |