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Show SGANDIMrHEWS 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. Knud Pasmussen, the Danish Arctic Arc-tic explorer, cabled the Museum of Natural History of New York that be will start from Copenhagen early In April to explore the remote region between Peary Land and Greenland. He will take messages to Donald M. MacMillau and his party, icebound In Etah, Greenland, and to Dr. E. 0. Hovey of the relief expedition at North Star bay, off the Greenland coast. Kasmussen may sail on the-Kap the-Kap York, one of his ships which has. carried mail from MacMillan, in which he said the crew of the schooner-Cluett, schooner-Cluett, caught In the ice, was within, easy reach of food. A-widow wished to sell her cottage, which was located near Randers, and she made arrangements with a real estate es-tate dealer in Randers for disposing of it. The real estate man and another an-other man drove past the cottage one Jay, and the real estate man told that he had been asked to see if he could sell it. They agreed to go and look at it the next day. The would-be buyer buy-er went to the office of the real estate man, but he was absent. The man then went to the cottage alone, and he bought the cottage before leaving the place. Now the widow refused to pay the real estate man any fees, and he sued her. The court not only cleared the widow, but made the real estate man pay the costs, which amounted to $2.75. The Danish bark Claudia has been sunk. Her crew was rescued. The-Claudia The-Claudia was a vessel of 367 tons gross. She sailed from Jacksonville February Febru-ary 26 for Fleetwood, England. There was great concern on the Copenhagen stock exchange due to reports re-ports that German submarine warfare . had entered on a new phase and that the torpedoing of neutral shipping would become more general. There was a fall of 15 per cent In steamship shares and United Steamship stock was sold in a larger quantity than any single stock had ever been dealt in before. NORWAY. The following pretty tory is to'id by a Minneapolis daily: "Miss D.igny I. Just, a junior in the dental department depart-ment of the University iif Minnesota, has been asked to come to Norway as assistant to Dr. Gund& Frydenlund, dentist to Queen Maud. Doctor Frydenlund Fry-denlund is the aunt of Miss Just and one of the renowned denial practitioners practition-ers in Scandinavia. MUs Just plans to leave for Norway immediately upon the completion of her training at the university. Miss Just's ambition to become a dentist had a most dramatic start. Six years ago the Just family visited Norway. On a foggy afternoon shortly after their arrival Miss Just and her sister, Signe, were running to a dancing school and on the way bumped into a man and woman in front of the royal palace in Chris-tiania. Chris-tiania. Stammering an apologv the two girls 'were surprised to receive a polite rejoinder in English. They looked up. Before them stood King Haakon and Queen Maud. The king had answered courteously "Certainly," "Certain-ly," to their flustered "I beg your pardon." par-don." Miss Just decided to take up the profession pursued by her aunt. Since then the ambition has kept aflame by repeated entreaties from Doctor Frydenlund to Miss Just to take up her work. According to Miss Just, her aunt, Dr. Gunda Frydenlund, Fryden-lund, has been attending the queen for the last two years. For many years it was the practice of the queen, an Englishwoman by birth, to go to-England to-England to have her teeth attended to until the fame of the woman practitioner prac-titioner came to her notice. Doctor Frydenlund's office is located directly opposite the palace building, and while in Europe Miss Just saw the-royal the-royal family almost daily. Miss Frydenlund Fry-denlund has been a practicing dentUt in Christiania for 18 years. She was one of the first woman dentists in Norway." A new plant for the production ol Einc will soon be in operation In Dram-men. Dram-men. The raw materials to be used aro low-grade ore formerly rejected at the Konnerul mines. A much larger factory of the same kind will soon be .built in the western part of Norway. Capt. Roald Amundson will start on ii North pole expedition in the spring of 1917. As money conditions are now more favorable he decided to accept the $50,000 subsidy granted by the storthing before the outbreak ol the war, but which he had not accepted ac-cepted on the ground that tho state might find useful employment for the money. Captain Amundson Intends to so a 100-ton motor vessel and to sail from Boring strait toward the Pole nnd return between Spit bcrpen and 0 men land |