Show scandinavian NE SUMMARY OP OF IMPORTANT HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of the most important events in sweden norway and denmark of interest Int erect to the scandinavians in america SWEDEN the volume of the mail dinall matter passing between germany and russia through sweden and denmark Is increasing n from week neck t to 0 week tb abo 0 number at 0 letters was largo almost from the start out but the volume of parcel post Is assuming gigantic proportions lons weeks ago about pounds dounda passed through malino on tho the way to russia every day the average weight of each package Is about ten pounds A man who his has a lian haner kering ln for looking below tile tho surface of things claims that a large part of the packages contain pepper lie he further claims that this Is to be used in hi preparing a substitute for vodka the sale ealo 0 of f which Is absolutely prohibited by the government of at russia A special car Is now used for carrying tile the russian parcel post from copenhagen to malmo and it Is proposed to run tile the car directly from copenhagen to na ka runel on the russian boundary lue in the northern part of sweden IP 0 the city fathers of Lill ogda lang backen and in Nor ly had a joint meeting and made nn an agreement that anyone who opens his house to gypsies shall pay a flue of 1360 for the first offense and twice us as much for subsequent offenses Tenses ol not ong ago a party arty of 38 persons who had 14 horses settled down in ono one of the above towns and stayed thera hero for two weeks it was ft as about all that tile tho inhabitants of tile the place could do to get rid of them the members of tho the gang would steal wherever they had a chance and they often resorted to threats to get what they wanted 0 lacut col knut Reuter sward nna ana wife nee lindstrom recently celebrated e d their golden wedding at their homo home faxio their greatest joy on the occasion was no doubt the right eight of ten robust sons sells four of them have chosen a military career and are now occupying prominent positions of 0 the other six one Is a dentist two are business men two are employed in banks and one Is an artist and Is married to mathilda jungstedt the opera singer 0 0 the copper ore beds at knarp gnarp are arc said bald to be even cven moro more kalua valuable ble than the first reports indicated the location Is an ideal one with rega regard r d to transportation by land and water and it Is predicted that it will be possible sible to turn out as much copper ore at gnarp gnapp as the entire output of the whole country at the present time A stock company owns the ground gold Is found also but perhaps not in paying quantities the ostrich farm at rasunda tho northernmost in the world Is not a financial success the proprietors have not succeeded in raising a single young bird and four out of the eight old birds have died the tour four that still remain are eking out a useless and expensive existence the proprietors prie prIc tors have commenced to raise chickens and this proved a paying venture from the start the the great rus rua dally daily was responsible for the story that the swedish gendarmerie gendar merie merle officers in n persia took possession easlon of certain amounts of money in the sub treasuries for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of the gend ar arcerio merio there Is absolutely no truth in the story 0 the number of serious accidents to 0 o swedish ships in the year ear 1913 was two steamers with their crews were completely lost loal right fight vessels were abandoned in the open sea there were 73 casei of capsizing and 98 vessels were grounded ninety six lives were lost 41 of them in the open sea the bakers of malmo alaimo found that the us use a of potato hour flour for making bread was more expensive than tho use of grain flour and for that reason they memorialized the ri ladig to 0 o permit the use of only grain lour flour for bread 0 0 0 the voluntary rifle ride club movement I 1 made great progress in id 1914 the total membership now exceeds and loaded were ft ere fired at the regular shooting notches ni itches of the clubs cluba during tile the year 0 the horjus porjus power station in the ex north was completed comple tul a few e ys ya ago and tile the king started the machines by pr dressig pressig essig a button in his palace in stockholm most of the power Is to be used for running the trains on the railway crossing the northernmost part of tile the scandinavian peninsula 0 0 meat butter eggs potatoes and milk are cheaper in the northernmost palt pait of sweden than in the southern sou thero pro meets this never happened before and it must he be due toabe to the war in some come ay ft alfe |