Show NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT happenings IN PAR FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME legume aume eume of the most mol important events event in sweden norway and denmark of interest Inter cit to the scandinavians scandinavian in america SWEDEN one of tit the 0 most interesting its at thu the canama exposition epos llon will be that of the tha swedish painters oin most of tile modern artists if f that nationality while tho the works it f swedish artists are represented in most of tho the galleries lit in europe america la Is not well acquainted with their ait 1111 as only on two occasions have scandinavian collections been exhibited in the united states in 1893 at the chicago worlds fair and last la stear year by the american scandinavian society df new york among the painters who nho will be represented in the collection are anders andt rs zorn prince eugene youngest brother of the king of sweden gruno liljefors carl carson emit croll Ostern iann anna boberg hugo carlberg Lar lberg ollie Hj count von rosen and anzelm Schultz bere swedish art commissioner tit tho 0 exhibitors ex hibi tors each represent an individual school and type the privileges of the restaurants serving liquors in stockholm have been greatly curtailed during the last few months now they have been ordered to serve no customers after ten and to close nt at eleven it Is claimed that of the forty restaurants still remaining only two are making money some of tho the keepers claim that the last turn of 0 the screws means that a largo larg number of establishments must be closed abe lie traffic of oc tho the last hour being the mainstay of so BO many man restaurants 0 the ethnographic department of the national museum has received a valuable gift from it walen swedish consul in new guinea it consists of 40 crates ates of ethnologic objects from australia there are almost sped ments in all the directors of tho the museum awarded the tha ainne gold medal to consul wahlen in token of appreciation of hla his contribution to the museum carl johan ahlqvist a stockholm merchant and his wife died of heart failure almost at the same time they were both well luring during the day they retired for the night at 11 fifteen minutes liter later mm Alil ahlqvist heard a loud sigh cominb from her husband she sprang up and left the bedroom to call for aid out but she did not get far she fell down and was caught by her daughter who ran to meet her without uttering a word she turned to her husband who had bad already expired and raised her hand band as it if to say goodby good by and died all was over in about one minute ini nute rye la is getting cheap on accod account nt of the embargo on grain at first the farmers kept it back in the expects tion of getting higher prices but now they are giving up the waiting game and it appears that con consider FOder i able quantities are for sale the price Is not apt to go much lower because many farmers have to teed feed rye tc their stock A shoemaker at malmo must be said to bo be a greatly afflicted man lie has been married twice lie had bad four children by his him first wife ife find and all of them and mother ore are dead three of them died of tuberculosis ilie second wife died early this winter and the same day their child was taken to a childrens home tho the man was so sick bick that he could not nat attend the funeral and now tie he Is cared tor for at a hospital sweden has 12 dioceses divided ur up into deaneries dean dear eries and these again are subdivided into 2558 2658 parishes there aro are about 2500 regular pastors only pastorates past orates have less than 2000 inhabitants have in habitants and 12 have over inhabitants in stockholm one congro gation gallon ha has s inhabitants and three have over each the swedish clergymen come chiefly from the farms in some dioceses largely from the homes of 0 pastors rarely from the homes of the more prosperous clas classes sea the swedish government has placed live five per cent bonds on the market the denominations of the bonds run from 27 to 2700 A few swedish banks picked up the whole amount ii A trunk Is a well known object on all railroads the rai railway liay depart ment of sweden has found that th swedish people spell the word corresponding sp Bp to the english word trunk us fig follows follow boffert Koff ert doffort koff ort hoffet Koff erdt hofferd koft koff erd cofard goffart koff art bof bof lot kolford kofford kolter koltur koff urt tort kafet koffer tt kobart kogurt bof vat kc karf vet kart karf vert kollertt korfer tt kort fut korty fort kobat bovet koli fot kosport kop port fart kader kaffer tt kabot kafet kafara 4 baffert fert coffert coffer cafa rort fort coffer cholet |