| Show OUR STOCKHOLM LETTER STOCKHOLM may 27 special die Koel the prominent german paper publiA published hed recently an article on the numerical strength of the swedish army and navy which probably will be read with interest as it shows that old sweden is a formidable foe even nowadays and at least ought to be able to advantageously conduct a war of defense the paper says As has been formerly stated the population lation of sweden is manifesting an extra extraordinary Y interest in the increase of the army and nav navy Y and it was without doubt on account of this public opinion that the dag which was sumi summoned boned to extra session the last months of the previous year passed the new army bill by a very large majority As a consequence sweden in a few years will be capable of mobilizing about soldiers at present the efforts of the swedish government are aimed at the iz aaion of the navy and for this purpose the will probably again be summoned to extra session some time next fall the fleet will hooft be ebuy ped with fifteen large worships war ships of them the rist first class six more armored cruisers dm aau no less than fifty new torpedo boats it is significant of the interest of the inhabitants in this matter that the swe dish people has voluntarily prepared itself for so called weeks of den denial ial during which whole families will desist from satisfying several wants in order to contribute the money saved in that way to military purposes it is believed that the savings will be sufficient to cover the expenses of the building of a new warship war ship of the first class the royal family has also set ein an example by also submitting itself to a week of denial RUSSIAN DESPOTISM IN FINLAND poor finland is being more and more op oppressed r sed by the worst despotism on earth eartha the paper syn kays in an editorial that finland ought ought tb be nothing else but a russian province vilce as it has been con conquered quere by russian arms stain stained edwith with the blood bloo dof of russion russian sons the obnoxious minns finns jhb have been russian subjects for eighty five years must be subdued ore ire the words with which the paper con ceddes its att article icle according to a late bete telegram raam the governor general of finland I 1 has forbidden the singing of our arid and the march of the bjorne bor giatis two national airs at at all public occasions and this of bourse has liti stilted up the nation gemei several A swedes connected with the salvation arm army in the capital of finland have ave aeeti been expelled from the country A SCHEME OF NORWEGIAN RADICALS the danish published recently an article on the norwegian crisis the paper says among other things the radicals do not s seem em to want ant a republic just at present the norwegian demagogues or heroes of liberty as they call themselves are said to acknowledge the difficulty and danger of a norway without a king and in war with sweden they have therefore contrived that the dissolution of the union ought to take place in a comparatively Ively friendly way avay if inthey they created ataee bernadotte dynasty by electing one of king oscars young sons king of norway the ithe only trouble is that the good Norge gians bave to choose between two iwo of odthe tap three ahree full grown prin ces bernadotte prince 6 carl they do not want but it is to be prince oscar or bribite eugene pica oscar ws mas divested of his here datary right to the crown crown on account it of sas mi mabini marriage ge to miss ebba formerly one of the ithel queens maids maia aj and according accordi accord hg hig to the constitution it no lid longer aci to be regarded as a member bf athe ady royal house in one way vay this lobe be an advantage and another reason for the election elections 1 of prince oscar Is that tie e is strictly religious and on ahat account probably would be more acceptable to the great number of norwegian e la 1 I pi e ats belon belonging to the eft anair anybody els else e esitt but prince engen eu 1 I en is is also mentioned as the favorite 0 of other radicals the genuine christian radicals who stand with ith one foot in the camp of the bourna pitts fists and artists prince eugen is as known an artist himself and has always ways harbored very verk radical opinions opinions inions oT thereby also his cognomen the e red prince AN emigration EN MASSE the emi emigration gradi on i s seems to tobe be of such an extent this year that it cannot fail to rouse sad feelings in the breast of every swedish patriot from several provinces of sweden from sealand Sm aland from daleland daleland Vester gotland and from norrland information reaches us about an emigration en masse in the vicinity of the city of sundsvall Sund everybody is booked for america it is especially canada which is believed to be the promised land and two large caravans each consisting of more than a hundred people will depart for the british dominion in june and july at the same time the emigration to the united states is is goin going g on and is nearly as large ILLNESS OF ROYALTY queen illness seems to be v very ery s serious erious and although death is not a actually ly imminent she is gradually growing weaker the same may be said in regard to the crown princess who having traveled in egypt and italy for some time arrived at carasi uhe the other day official denials of course are issued of the illanes of the hi high personages but it is an old story a always gi new the royal people are very sensitive on the su subject eject of their health never admitting that they are sick before deith deah i not far away As to the niale nale members of the royal house they are all doing well except the king who is extremely nervous the trouble with norway no dolbi doubt preying upon hi his Is mind SWEDISH STEEL TO JAPAN one hundred ten boxes containing swedish steel were recently sent kom rom stockholm to yokohama with the steamer iod 11 the steel will be us used ed in the manufacturing of knives scissors etc A large number of horseshoes from the belte horseshoe factory was also sent with the same steamer the GOLD CURE CURB CONDEMNED the gold cure has been pronounced no good in copenhagen in a late issue of a danish medical journal prof bandes gives out some reports as to t he result of the so called gold caare was introduced at the ati public alic hospital t at of copenhagen about a year ago the b e expectations which certain sanguine and kind heartis people nce once nad 0 in in regard to the gold cure 0 h have e failed led entirely and the more than miserable result is if not what was predicted already ten months ago a complete fiasco dr mann a collea colleague of brof brandes will soon publish some statistics concern concertino concerting conc erting ipg the gald cure and the reports of the doctor w will iu probably be of a condemnatory nature |
