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Show scioifiwii 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. The Copenhagen Telephone company com-pany has just installed its one hundred hun-dred thousandth apparatus in the city.. The celebration was a quiet affair. af-fair. But the hello girls could tell that something unusual was up. for they were treated to a chocolate feast at the expense of the company. No. 100,000 was installed in the bouse; of Expressman Yolmcr Bager, 41 For-haahningshnlms For-haahningshnlms Alle. When he ordered or-dered the telephone be had no idea what his number would be. Now he. has two good reasons for being happy:. In the first place be got a "round number," num-ber," and, what he values still more, he will he served free of charge for one year. Germany is believed to he making preparations for the establishment in Denmark and Sweden of a large number of branches of well-known German factories and industrial firms, says Svenska Dagbladet. These plans, if carried out. would be detrimental to neutral trade, since the countries of the allies would be naturally suspicious suspi-cious of all neutral linns which might be serving German interests. The paper suggests a combination of industry indus-try and finance to offset this German influence. t The long drought has reduced the value of the crops to a Terrible degree. For this reason it Is said that a large, part of the stock of the country must be butchered. In one week over 4,000 cows were taken to Copenhagen packing pack-ing houses. The number would have been still larger if the capacity of the establishment had permitted it. The department of the interior has established a central management for a systematic distribution of foodstuff for man and beast. Substations are to he opened in different localities to see that the grain is threshed in due season and properly distributed. FINLAND. The situation in Finland is serious,' as a result of the continued dilliculty! of forming a cabinet and persistence; of socialists in their plan to renew sessions ses-sions of the dissolved landtdag. According Ac-cording to the evening newspapers.. Premier Kerensky instructed Governor Govern-or Stakhovitch to prevent, at all costs, a reopening of the landtag; if necessary, neces-sary, to surround the , building and compel the members to disburse. SWEDEN. The Stockholm city authorities hnvpl begun a campaign against rats by offering of-fering two and one-half cents for every carcass delivered. While it is hoped, thus to reduce the rat plague considerably, consid-erably, the chief end is to secure an Important addition to the stocks of fats available for the making of soaps; and lubricants. The rat carcasses are treated in a "corpse utilization establishment." es-tablishment." where, after the fat has been boiled out, what remains is converted con-verted into a poultry food. South Sweden has for sonic time been utilizing utiliz-ing cadavers of various animals in this way. A considerable aniounl of fat is also secured by skimming largo ontainers placed in the sewers leading lead-ing from the lintels, restaurants and other places where there is an unavoidable un-avoidable waste of fat. Even the coining of iron money failed fail-ed to relieve (lie coin famine In Sweden. II is explained thai the copper cop-per coins were shipped to Germany, so iron was introduced. But the business busi-ness men are still hampered by a general gen-eral lack of small change. The laborers' and soldiers' committee commit-tee of I'et rograd. Russia, made arrangements ar-rangements for publishing an international interna-tional bulletin in Stockholm. II is printed in English, German and French. September first was the date fixed by the national government to take possession of all the wheat, rye, barley, bar-ley, oat", legumes, and sugar beets In sight at that date. As early as the loth of .Inly about 100 families in Gafle reported to the au'horifies that they were unable to find rooms for rent for the coming winter. win-ter. The Swedish expedition which was to go to Spit .berg' n for the purpose of mining coal could not leave because flic English government did not permit per-mit the ship to get Ibe oil lie, (e( for the elil-'ines. Sweden has beiii permitted to Import Im-port from Germany all the kabuni needed for the crops of this year and the coming year. The national government cleared .eTo.HOO on the sale and exportation of .",000 horses. |