| Show OUR STOCKHOLM LETTER STOCKHOLM july 3 special no city in the world not even london excepted cep ted has by far as many telephones as ag the swedish capital but stockholm not nat only leads as to the number of telephones a single house there beats thia the record without doubt by having every evay room furnished with a telephone and it is not a small private house either it is the great fashionable hotel which has now given its guests the rare chance to put themselves stand standing ingin in their own rooms and independent p ditis of each ot other er in connection with every ele telephone station not only in stockholm sto h in but in the whole kingdom of sweden the telephones have been put up especially for the benefit of the guests and no charges are made for using them AN EMPERORS DEFEAT A correspondent to a swedish paper relates rela tes the following episode from the late royal hunt on the island of hven there was no common hunting party g gathered a the ed sacs says the writer as there appeared among others old king christian crown prince fredrik prince wilhelm of alexander the mighty autocrat of all the dussias Rus sias king oscar and a whole number of english and german princes who could count them all alp I 1 the high party had just finished their dinner aboard drott the royal swedish flagship and all seemed to be feeling well czar alexander was in his best denmark humor As everybody knows he feels better at home among the family and people of his father in law than anywhere else the royal personages had amused themselves sometime throwing iron balls at a certain aim on the shore and the ability of the czar in this kink of sport had roused the admiration of everybody Is there anybody who wants to try my arm strength he suddenly asked in french perhaps you my young friendt friend thereby he turned to a young man standing by and dressed in the uniform of a swedish marine physician with pleasure sire that gentleman answered thereupon they commenced to wrestle using only the right arm the emperor apparently used all his powers but the young swede held his own until the round came to an end the czar looked at him a little astonished finally inquiring while everybody laughed where in the d 1 did you get that strength it is the happy result of the swedish gymnastic sire his adversary answered the emperor could not enough compliment the young swede who by the way was none else than the well known doctor F kleeberg Klef berg one might now believe that the emperor had had enough of wrestling not so later in the evening he met mr anders akerman the captain of king oscars huntsmen huntsmon hunts men and a veritable hercules in size but so is the czar himself who delightedly said you and I 1 must take a hold the wrestling proved to be a battle of giants but the swede was just as strong as one of the former life guardsmen guardsman guards men of charles XII and after a while the mightiest of rulers was forced to acknowledge himself conquered 1 I hope concludes the relater of the above that the good czar now will only tell his Mosco that the swedes are no playthings exactly but alas they know that since since old time back AN EASILY GOVERNED NATION alfred the editor of the makes the following sarcastic remarks in his paper if a foreigner arrives at the capital of a sw swedish edish province and finds that the governor is is away filling his seat in the upper house of the while the mayor performs a similar duty in the lower that the colonel colon elof of the provincial regiment holds a position I 1 on of court chamberlain in stockholm that the comman der in chief of the he military district 1 i is s traveling with one of of the princes and that other dignitaries are working ro either as committees or serving as assignees in insolvent estates of their colleagues or gambling friends then that foreigner must draw two conclusions first that the swedes must be a very easily governed people and second that euch a good natured people could possibly be managed with a somewhat simpler apparatus OWNER OF A FAMOUS RACEHORSE RACE HORSE in the recent grand steeple chase de paris first money franc v taken by the horse 1 fl racer says the french paper le joc jockett is owned by mrs lotten childe I 1 may add that mrs childe is a swe SW by birth nee montgomery and aprim ing from an old noble family in swed who long time ago emigrated t foal scotland A GIANT STEEL BAND A rolled giant steel band was rece becenti shipped by the sandviken iron fac facto to the chicago worlds fair where will without doubt attract attention is a band saw feet long twe t tw el inches wide 3 millimeters thick aal weighing not more than sixty y grams POLITICS OF GERMANY criticized criticised the politics of germany was critic isi in in very vigorous language at a rec rc political meeting at Rin genes in sot so ern jylland the agitator was a dan politician named gustav johans johan twenty two germans were present the meeting when one of them budde arose and proposed a cheer for E geror william refusing to join this would of cou couri be synonymous to high treason th thel fore johansen arose and said the emperor has overthrown brinl bismarck and has often spoken vv hoping that he will soon be JU just t 1 north schleswig Sch leswig and meet the thai fishl of the dan danish i h population population of that P art vince I 1 second the motion and a everybody to give the emperor a ro rois ing cheer of course the germans pre present e n t dl not like the speakers reference cefere n c e 4 north schleswig Sch leswig and its danish pop kopul tion but nevertheless they had to s with ia the lm rest qt vf |
