Show THE FAR NORTH SWEDEN the jail in nedre bedre kalix was burned d down own alderman gustaf kolmodin of visby died at the age of seventy years the cit city y of gene province of gestrick land has now inhabitants several persons were found frozen to death not very far from the city of lulea neils henrik a prominent manufacturer of died at the age of eighty two years several Fin landers living in america have sent home crowns to the fam famine r ine stricken people of norway captain W T of the upland r regiment e g ment will visit the worlds fair for the purpose of studying military matters the aldermen of geneva switzerland have in the city hall of that town hung up a large picture by the french painter david and representing charles XII of C sweden the work of art is highly praised by a geneva paper A banquet was held in stockholm Stolk holm the other day in honor of rev W lindholm who is to visit the swedish baptists of the united states rev lindholm will travel in america tor for a P period of four months zi between twenty and thirty swedes have emigrated to cinfo congo africa during the last few months it t is is a noteworthy fact that most of the steamers on the congo river are commanded by swedish officers says a swede who lives 14 down there and able intelligent representatives A senta tives of their nationality will be received with open arms in a letter to prof hjarne of upsala kupsala i Bjorn bjornson says you s speak P eak about the desire of russia to obtain an open free from ice in the winter harbor in no norway arway in this you are surely mistaken russia does not need any new A open harbors for its transit goods for it has enough of them already but it desires a way a railway to such an one if russia a way to the atlantic to one to the artic ocean I 1 think we ought to accommodate her in that respect rather be accommodating than keep up a continual danger as a political weapon against the independence of norway the women of sweden asked for of the crowns appropriated to the chicago worlds fair less than one per cent of the whole but even that was flatly refused but the women had already decided to be represented and the committee in charge is making great u exertions to raise the necessary funds the support of the queen has paved the way to many people of wealth who could not otherwise have been reachel reached and the royal committee which is is responsible for the public appropriations has at last consented to transport their exhibits to the fair it will cot co t about crowns to send a representative to the fair and this sum is now being raised the exhibits reflect great credit on the swedish women NORWAY I 1 mrs maria Abrahams dotter ot died at the age of years an ice carnival at had to al be postponed because it was too coldi ajaski at a ski running match near a mr aslakson cleared 91 teet leet in a long lump jump contest 14 1 the labor party has requested the municipal government to build residences to be rented out to laboring men at such rates as to simply cover the expenses E elward ward grieg acted as directed at the rendition of his second per cynt suite at the leipsig armory the other day it was the greatest triumph which grieg and we might say norwegian w e g ian music ever scored in that part of the wor world id says one who was present at the occasion the expressions of the press were highly sympathetic also A reporter of the berliner lage blatt has spent some time in norway making the study of the form of the heads of the people a specialty in a lengthy article on the subject he says everybody who has seen the master ibsen or a picture of him knows that his head has an angular almost globular form everything is pure hardness and resistance and this is still more strikingly developed in B bjornson n t than han in ibsen his head loo looks k s a as tho though ug h chiseled out of the rocks under the blonde locks here and there turning gray you seeth e red tremendous skull in tau the e front the kempt up hair surrounds a forehead which looks as if it could go through a wall DENMARK the norwegian society of copen hagen has celebrated its aoth annever sary its membership is small but its finances are in a splendid condition the lower house of the has rejected the bill making appropriations f for or the representation of denmark at the international naval review at new york |