Show LETTER FROM STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM march special to ahe he NEWS the young mens christian association of stockholm celebrated its loth anniversary last thursday a concert being given under the auspices rus ices of the association in the large half half of the board ot of trade building the speech of the evening was delivered by minister of war who said that the Y M C A is meeting with great success in sweden branch lodges have been organized in the principal cities and a modern and convenient building will soon be erected in the capital king oscar and crown prince gustave leave lor for the present week it is given out that those members of the swedish who have been called to a secret conference with the ahe king a thing that has happened only twice in the history of sweden alter after 1809 have advised the monarch to be firm in the opinion already taken by him or in other words not to agree to a solution of the union question if sweden be not given her say in the matter the conservative societies of dram men held a reunion in the board of trade building of that city A tele jeram of congratulation was sent to king 40 oscar iscar who immediately answered the same an expedition to greenland will leave copenhagen next may aboard the cruiser ingolf the purpose of the expedition the cost of which will ill be borne bome by the diet is wholly a scientific one cami le ie Flam marion the well known french astronomer will visit finland alno next at summer for the purpose of viewing the midnight sun from the aavasaksa Aava mountain mr sven holander Se the celebrated bellman ellman 13 singer is at present making a concert tour through russia last week he sang in st petersburg where he was most enthusiastically received queen sophia will spend most of the summer at the beautiful balaka country Enan mansion sion in dalecarlia Dale carlia a place which is well ineil known to most american tourists visiting sweden the swedish society for Sw edens naval defense has arranged t two wo g gala ala I 1 performances to be given at the grand opera house march aoth and aist an immense choir ot of the famous singers will assist the so called greesen baths near v Christia uia are every summer more and more imore frequented by visitors the place is noted tor for its mineral springs and the view from the establishment itself is very fine still more so from meters above the sea level close by dy the modern of explosives has enormously developed in sweden alfred nobel a swede was the first who brought nitroglycerine nitro glycerine into extensive use when he proved that by a quickly exploding detonator the explosion of nitroglycerine nitro glycerine alycen i ne may be brought about and discovered a safe method lor for its preparation on oc a large scale the use of this preparation is however open to great danger more especially in a liquid unmixed state so that its use is is closely limited by law the most usual form of nitroglycerine nitro glycerine is dynamite which was invented by the aforesaid alfred nobel mr nobel has also introduced another explosive int into euse use called extra dynamite which contains gelatini gelatinized zed nitroglycerine nitro glycerine obtained by heating nitrocellulose nitro cellulose in nitroglycerine nitro glycerine extra dynamite is considered somewhat safer than dynamite sebastine is another swedish explosive composed of a mixture of nitroglycerine nitro glycerine nitrate of soda and charcoal among other explosives containing nitroglycerine nitro glycerine invented in sweden double ammonia powder and nitro lite may be mentioned two explosives not containing nitroglycerine nitro glycerine are also manufactured viz and bomite of which the former is deemed not so susceptible to knocks and blows as those explosives previously mentioned and not exploding when heated to celsius there are now in sweden eight large manufactories manu factories for the making of explosives the will probably decide to add two new regiments to the swedish army the fourth new and large ironclad will be launched early in the summer sweden has at present wood pulp factories the production of ground wood pulp amounted last year to million pounds the export to england and the united states is is in constant and steady growth |