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Show SGIDIilfj NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS HAP-PENINGS IN FAR OFF NORTHLAND. ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME Resume of the Most Important Events In Sweden, Norway and Denmark Of Interest to the Scandinavians In America. DENMARK. Mutow ship construction Is develop-InK develop-InK with extraordinary rapidity in Denmark, which took the lead in the building of this class of seagoing vessel ves-sel when It successfully completed the Seliiiidlu a few years ago. Since that time a great increase has been brought about In the size of motor-slilps. motor-slilps. The Selandla was 375 feet In length, had engines af ' 3,500 horsepower horse-power and displaced 7,000 tons. At present one yard alone Is engaged on the construction of a number of motor-vesselH, motor-vesselH, each of which is to displace 12,000 tons, to be 500 feet in length and to have motors of 6,000 horsepower. horse-power. Tho same firm has orders for 60 motor ships and its slips will be fully occupied witli them until the end of 1921. The old people's home at Bryrup harbors a womun named Maren Pe-dersen. Pe-dersen. She Is 80 years old. She began to weave cloth on a hand loom November 2, 1854, and kept at her work steadily for 61 years and 5 months before she gave it up. Her hand can no longer make the shuttle fly. Tho date 1790 Is cu I Into her loom, which is made of gray oak. She has given it to her daughter with the peremptory injunction to smash It and burn It up. Maren Pederson has been married three times, and it is ten years since her last husband died. In vlw of the recent seizures of mall from Scandinavian steamships by the British authorities, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the protests of the governments concerned, Joint action by Denmark, Sweden and Norway now Is under consideration, con-sideration, according to Copenhagen advices to the Overseas News agency. This step is made probable, the news agency says, by Great Britain's refusal re-fusal to reconsider her policy in respect re-spect to detention of mails between, the United States and Scandinavia. While a young painter was at work in Grenaa his right arm suddenly became be-came paralyzed so that his brush dropped to the ground. He managed to pick It up with his left hand, and was about to tell his companion that he had to go home when he was horrified hor-rified to find that his tongue refused to work. Fortunately the paralytio stroke was only partial, and the man Is slowly recovering. The Danish rigsdag has empowered the government to follow the other Scandinavian countries in their daylight day-light saving measures. Prince Viggo, the youngest son of Prince Valdemar, is taking a course of military training. He Is 23 years old. NORWAY. To understand Norway's positiOD during the war it is necessary to remember re-member the prominent part that the country's merchant navy is playing In its economic life. In 1913 the total of freights carried by Norway's ships in foreign trade was about $58,563,000, while the total value of all crops was $60,000,000. The freights for 1915 amount to at least four times as much as those of normal times, and the proceeds pro-ceeds of the fisheries probably to more than twice as much as for 1913. Pro-English Pro-English sentiment In Norway is rapidly rap-idly waning, because of the difficulties placed in the way of obtaining gooc's from other countries, especially from the United States. But it Is not England Eng-land alone that Is Imposing these bonds, for Germany seems to be doing what she can, having, for Instance, repeatedly re-peatedly captured neutral ships on their way from one of the Scandinavian Scandina-vian countries to another. And the losses suffered by this country from submarine warfare are heavy. Within With-in a little more than a week three Norwegian ships the Silus, the Lan-gell Lan-gell and the Kaonik have been torpedoed tor-pedoed by German submarines while lying peacefully at anchor, no notice being given In any of the cases. Christiania now has a population of 253,000. The" Increase for the past year was about 3,000. The Romsdal Veksel and Land-inands Land-inands bank offered 1,250 new shares for sale, and the number subscribed for was 9,232. A German submarine on April 22 held up the Norwegian bark Pestaloz-zi, Pestaloz-zi, which was then in charge of a British prize crew, made prisoners of the crew and after an examination released re-leased the bark 160 miles west of the Hebrides. A British cruiser had placed a prize crew aboard with instruction to take the Pestalozzl to Kirkwall. She was bound from Malmo for Argentina Ar-gentina with cement. . They own about 70,000 head of cattle cat-tle among them, and last year was s good cne for their business. |