Show LETTER FROM STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM jan 6 special it is now believed that the money gift to be presented to king oscar at his 25 years jubilee in september will embrace sav several million crowns money is coming in rapidly all the large firms and concerns of the kingdom contributing with sums varying in amount irom from to crowns individuals also give freely and several persons who want their names withheld have donated as muchas crowns each As mentioned in a previous letter the money will be used for founding a hospital for consumptives ives it is given out semi officially that sev eral people will be elevated to the nobility by king oscar in connection with the celebration of his jubilee this year the largest funeral probably ever held here took place a few days ago when the late dr alfred nobel multimillionaire multi millionaire and inventor of dynamite were laid to rest they having been first Lre cremated mated there were hundreds ot of carriages in the funeral procession and the hearse was followed closely by five open carriages which contained as many flowers as they could hold wreaths had been sent from all countries of europe the largest number having been received from russia and france the wealth of the nobel brothers is undoubtedly one of the giant fortunes of the world being estimated as high as 1000 million crowns the late alfred ifred leaves of at these about milli millions ons or in american money over Bjorn bjornson is being greatly taken to task by the swedish and norwegian press on account of some correspondence pon dence which he be has furnished the russian newspapers in these letters bjornson has been manufacturing statements out of whole cloth claiming that sweden is a secret member of the triple alliance and that the increase of her navy and army must mast be regarded as a threat against russia some swedish newspapers go as aa far as stating their belief that bjornson is insane great though he has been as a po etall parties agree that he is a dead failure as a politician the fort oscar Fredriks borg that defends the entrance to stockholm from the baltic will be strongly fortified the cost is estimated at crowns half of which amount will be used for the purchase of some big guns hansens Nan sens first lecture before the geographical society of london was a tremendous success the lecture was delivered in the large albert hall at least people were unable to gain admission the costs for the reception of nansen and his expedition at christiana have now been calculated they amount to crowns Nor ways exhibit at the stockholm lm exposition will be one of the features ot of the big fair the number of norway borwer ian exhibitors who have regist registered emd up U to date is besides these over toco loo norwegian painters will exhibit in heart palace the united states will be represented by at least twenty of its foremost artists the postoffice post office which as early as 1636 was made a government department uz in sweden annually transmits more thou than letters and parcels the post offices numbered jan i of the pros pres ent year 2200 i sweden has more than miles ot of telegraph lines those of the railways not being in included c eluded the length of the wires is about miles the the W telegraph egray h has not reached a very hi high i h state of de in sweden te the number of telegrams not being fully 2 ft year for close upon idhaw inhabitants but so much the more progress process has the telephone made Bud business fiess telephones double wired and of the most excellent kind can this year be had bad at the very cheap rate of twelve dollars it a year and for a telephone in your regi redo dence the annual fee is only 9 75 the total length of the connections asat is at present about miles and tike the number of apparatus over the statistics given out jan ian x r shows that thac in ia stockholm there is one telephone to every nineteenth inhabitant no 0 city inthe world can show a companion picture to this the state owns over half the number of telephones used in sweden but connections with the state telephone and those oi of the private telephone companies and vice versa can be made all over the kingdom for such connections you are charged 24 2 cents for each communication among the private enterprises the stockholm general telephone company occupies the very foremost position its central station is the largest and best arranged in the world the company had over subscribers on jan i ot a this year |