Show THE FAR NORTH 4 sweden the country mansion kyrketorp in Ormes berga was burned down three children were drowned the other day in the klara river at lyckan lackan they were three sons of farmer erik janson A new paper will be published in boraas anders branberg formerly connected with the posten will be editor in chief G M rosenberg a prominent wholesale I 1 merchant of stockholm died at the age of 66 years mr rosenberg leaves a large fortune A swedish art exhibition will be held in london next year several pictures which will be exhibited in chicago this summer will also be shown in london J peterson the alfta alata blind pig man who killed sheriff gavel last year was executed some time ago as mentioned before being a cripple he had to use crutches in walking up to the block the odd fellow order in stockholm consists of four lodges the scandia and lodges in in malmo the veritas lodge in Trelle boig and the john ericsson lodge in stockholm the missionaries sent to china by F franson are becoming a burden both to themselves and to older missionaries in that country F franson ought to go to china himself and take a peep at the field says a contemporary horary the king has proclaimed that the fhe three hundredth anniversary of the upsala kupsala council shall be solemnized by appropriate services in the chapel of the castle at stockholm stockholm april aoth the is is expected to attend in a body A fifteen year old boy nils peter john bergesen Ber of Vest ervik is a mathematical genius he can perform quite complicated examples in multiplication as soon as they are given an example like this 39 times 45 being answered correctly by him in in a few seconds without having anything written down prince eugen and a number of clergy in men en propose to raise crowns crown s tor a monument to 0 aus petri the first apostle of lutheranism in sweden unfortunate however no picture of the reformer has come down to our day but T lundberg the sculptor has made a sketch of him as he ought to have looked and where there is such a boundless play for the imagination there will be no lack of suggestions the dagens says mr glad J stone refused to receive a deputation 4 from the presbyterian church of ireland which requested to be permitted to state its objections to irish home rule J the premier of sweden has also refused to receive a deputation but in a different way in england the government ment takes the lead in a great work of freedom A deputation from a minority favoring the oppression pr bession asked to be heard by the c chief ogi e of the government the object of remonstrating against his reform bill it is turned away in sweden the government assumes a questionable attitude toward a national movement move ment the suffrage movement A deputation from the convention of this movement called on the premier NORWAY A mr madsen has served as organist at t the st maria church bergen for sixty years the occasion brought many prominent prominent visitors to his house it is reported that he has not neglected his duty a single sunday it is asserted with great emphasis by the liberal papers that the conservative leaders stang and sverdrup have urged hie king to sanction the resolution of the Stor thing providing for a separate consular service the board ot of trade of bergen has issued a lengthy manifesto in which it aftem attempts ts to demonstrate that official con consuls are of so little use in modern international commerce that it would mot pay for norway to ta maintain a separate consular service arne garborg who has been a very prolific writer of of late will begin rational farming larmi at dalbotten Kal botten Oster dalen 2 where ale he has spent most of his time tim e for the past few years he will pay particular Irti cular attention to stock raising J lans seland another college graduate will help mr garborg to make a good start premier steen is a defendant desen dant of an old family in sweden his kindfather iwand father lived in and was married to a miss Nyki they had two sons one of whom assumed the name of his bis mother and took orders one ue of his sons is an officer in the army their second son ke kept pt the name of of his father steen and moved to norway when he became the father of premier steen DENMARK the social democrats of copenhagen have nominated E for member of the common council they could hardly find a stronger man he is the brain and the conscience of the social democracy of denmark he was bom in 1854 and supported himself at an early age he worked as a journeyman printer a number of years in 1877 he began to set the types as he composed the reading matter without using manuscript at all in 1881 he was appointed d editor of the social Demo craten this paper was a sorry affair when he took hold of af it its circulation being in the neighborhood of 2000 which has since rown to mr has been arrested armsted and put in jail every now and then which fact has only served to extend and intensify his popularity his offenses being in fact so many outcrop out crop pings of danyl virtue |