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Show SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP-PENINGS 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. Denmark is becoming an increasingly increasing-ly Important distributing center for goods exported from the United States, nnd the possibilities for American trade with Denmark are great, according accord-ing to Edward D. Winslow, American consul general in Copenhagen. "It is significant," he said, "that American goods going to Russia, Germany and Austria are passing through Danish ports. The Danes now claim that Copenhagen, Co-penhagen, witli its free harbor, the only one in Scandinavia, lias supplanted supplant-ed other ports having free harbors' as a continental distributing center. I believe be-lieve this port will be able to hold its advantage when peace comes. Goods can be transshipped from here to all ports of the world, as cheaply and as expeditiously as from any other European Eu-ropean port, especially if the filial destination des-tination be Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Germanic Baltic ports. There are no hindrances to the establishment of agencies by Americans in Denmark. Denmark possesses no forests, nor does it produce either coal, iroi or other minerals. It is compelled to import im-port timber, coal, petroleiLa, iron, steel, lead, tin, copper, zinc, etc., besides be-sides oleaginous seed for crushing, oleomargarine, wood pulp, cork, dye-stuffs, dye-stuffs, and many other similar goods, also feeding stuffs and quantities of manufactured goods. So enormous an import of foreign goods demands a corresponding export of home produce. The export of Danish farm produce and of the fishing industries alone exceed ex-ceed the total imports. In his efforts to expand the transit trade the merchant mer-chant is extensively "supported by the Danish banks, wliose trustworthiness is well known. Copenhagen is the largest larg-est bank center in northern Europe." A representative of the Danish government gov-ernment has gone to Iceland for the purpose of buying horses for the army. There is no hitch in the work on the Funder and Bramminge railway, and the stretch from Grindsted to Bramminge Bram-minge will be ready for traffic In two-months. two-months. SWEDEN. Sweden's prettiest and wealthiest girl, Mabel Lithnnder, has arrived at New York on the steamer Stockholm to see a baseball game. Miss Lithnnder Lithnn-der is a tennis and water polo enthusiast enthu-siast and all-around athlete. She heard so much of the game fro'm the Ford peace party that she persuaded her mother to accompany her here. "I love America and every.hing American," she said, "and before I sailed from Sweden Swe-den I took lessons in poker playing, so that I am ready to take my part in any game that mny be in session." Stnffnn Soderblom, a son of Archbishop Arch-bishop Soderblom, has received his bachelor's degree at the age of fifteen years, and he is no doubt the youngest student in Sweden at the present time. His standing at the examinations was splendid. Engwall. Hellberg & Co., of Gafle, distributed ?S,000 as bonuses to the employees on the occasion of the reorganization reor-ganization of the firm. Mrs. A. Cramer of Malmo commemorated commemo-rated her eightieth birthday by giving $4,000 to a children's hospital and s children's school. The winter rye was beading out in the southern part of the country the 20th of May that is, about a week earlier than last year. Miss Svea Wldell, who was employed em-ployed In the Swedish missions In China for three years, has succumbed to typhoid fever. The Stockholm fire Insurance company com-pany has donated $27,000 to the government gov-ernment for the Improvement of the aerial defenses of the capital. In n steeplechase at Lindarengen, Stockholm, the horse of Lieut. E. L. E. Do Geers had a fall, and the rider was-instantly was-instantly killed. He was thirty-four years old. The highest prize In the lottery of the queen's central committee, namely, $13,500, was won by ten persons employed em-ployed by the firm of Thonnalen & I.of-strand I.of-strand of Gothenburg. Carl Jonasson Edgren of Ransater rounded olT the first century of his life May 22. lie is moving nbout every day, and Is even able to do some light work. Queen Victoria, who Is staying at Karlruhe, Germany, bus hud ,', operation opera-tion performed upon her for an Inflammation In-flammation of the ear. The province of Skane Is apt to. roup a rich crop of apples next fall. The plums are also very promising, bid I he pears look poor. |