Show THE FAR NORTH SWEDEN nine swedish missionaries left goth enburg the other day for africa the duke and duchess of york will visit sweden in the near future A railroad is to be built between englesberg and vansbro hansbro Vans bro the new church in the parish of harp linge was dedicated the other day two brothers H and J Of lerell were drowned near eskilstuna Eskil stuna prince nissi of japan and mr elki hioki his secretary are at present visiting in stockholm small pox is now raging epidemically in varnhem varnham Var nhem in the vicinity of and Kinne kulle mrs C dahl of recently 1 died donated crowns to i the gloyd school minnet minet lieutenant colonel C S drakenberg died at net Neri ike keat at the age of 70 years ad a prominent merchant of helsingborg Hels ingborg has been forced to make an assignment hon A D white the american minister to st petersburg is at present visiting in stockholm princess bernadotte gave birth to a daughter daught tr the die other day she is doing very well all the glove makers in malmo helsingborg Hels ingborg lund and halmstad have struck for higher wages per larsen a farmer of lilla pole fole has been elected electea it a member of the lower house of the dag mrs ellen hartman the beautiful actress who has been visiting with friends in stockholm returned to paris pans the other day carl hagman the famous swedish opera singer will probably leave the stage as he is now a multimillionaire multi millionaire having recently married a rich russian widow A large number of women and girls gave a public exhibition at the stockholm baths and natatorium july 31 the performances were greatly appreciated by the audience which numbered seven or eight hundred all women the question of lowering the stanga river between storebro Sto aud Aby boda a stretch of about twenty english miles which has been discussed for at least a century willston wilL soon be decided A sum of fao has been appropriated for dredging and grading the river about acres of swamp and marsh lands will be reclaimed the value of which will be in the neighborhood of it will take five years to complete the work the daily news dagens JD agens Ny heter beter expresses itself on the existing troubles between sweden and norway as follows on legal grounds norway can no in more re demand a common consular service for all times to come against again stour our will than we cati car against the will of norway therefore a sober consideration of the matter will show that no country needs make any concessions what would we swedes have done if the case had been the reverse of what it is that is if norway had opposed our efforts to reform the consular service it must not be supposed that the consular service question has been invented as a party issue by the liberals of norway but the desire for a se consular service for norway is of long standing and the liberal party has managed to make political capital out of it the proper manner ol of settling the question having no bearing whatsoever upon our safety at home homeland kand abroad we have no reason for intruding ourselves upon norway this way let us take up the consular question with as little red tape as possible for we can undoubtedly handle that matter without the cooper co oper aaion of norway by such a procedure alone we are able to guard the rights and interests of sweden in a legal and a worthy manner NORWAY frem the nansen north pole ship has now left vardo for covaia pemlia the university of costs the government about io oooo a year the teachers institute at elverum was attended by about public school teachers nearly all of whom took a short course in english the re bill of the Stor thing raising the minimum taxable income from to 2 16 from to crowns has struck about names from the tax roll or about one third of the entire number miss antoinette holab of Ullen saker has elicited favorable comment as a young lady of unmistakable talent by a work of sculpture consisting of a bust of a well known man A ball shot from one of the new can at Oscars borg fort last month struck the water between colven and about eleven english miles from Oscars borg the greatest distance ever covered by a missile within the boundaries of norway in order to cover this range the ball had bad to be thrown io feet up into the air or in other words wards about 2 coo feet above the summit of the loftiest loft iest mountain peak in norway the shot cost the gun is capable of throwing projectiles thirteen miles DENMARK cases of diphtheria dip theria are quite frequent among the children of copenhagen from Jager pris bjelland Sj elland it is reported that the whooping cough is prevalent and that no attempts are made to check the malady because the parents would rather have the whooping cough come in the summer than in the winter at a yacht race at keil the ilvo ot copenhagen won the emperors prize prie in honor of the occasion its owner mr olson was invited to supper on board the emperors cutter I 1 in the evening the emperor had acet a chat with mr olson in the smoking saloon |