Show 6 scandinavian CANDINA VIAN NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of the most important events event in sweden norway and denmark of interest to the scandinavians scandinavian in A america meric ts SWEDEN A few ew sundays ago swedish vi ornen attended peace conferences in some borne ot of the larger cities of the coun try in most cases they either cither strengthened their existing arg organic aulza liehs or established new ones on juno june 7 the tenth anniversary of the breaking up of the union of 0 S sweden eden and norway the nerices tinning said the union instead of uniting the two nat nations lons finally stood as aa a wall between theiu There therefore fote its fall was the best thing that could happen the union in which nature ced them still stands A dissolution of the union could not force them apart and they begin to feel that they are more close ly 1 connected pow now chanat than at any time during tho the union period 0 6 some boys in Ilon neby found a pocketbook full of money and pap papers er B near a pile of garbage they did 11 not ot know what it was and so asked an old ma man n for an explanation ile he could easily see that there was as a snug sum of cash but the papers lie ho lid did not un ull der stand ile he advised the boys to show what hat they had found to the police and so they did it was vas found that the cash amounted t to 0 SO 80 and there were three bank checks of 1350 each the police soon found the owner w who lie had lost his pocketbook while digging for all angleworms angle glew worms ornis in a back yard the fhe swedish army anny has been considerably developed since the beginning of the european war according to a correspondent of tho the exchange tele graph company it Is officially an all bounced that sweden now hue has regulars and supplies of ammunition and war ma aerial have been brought up to date and the swedish military writers state that the army has never before stood blood at a high point of efficiency five thousand new officers and cloned officers have been appointed book publishers all over the country have organized a special company tor for the purpose of using this as a ii means of disposing of books cannot be sold in the usual way the idea Is to sell the books at a very low rate through this company tito the capital stock of the company must be no less than and no more than it Is reported from roni gothenburg gothenberg Got henburg that sven hedin received a telegraphic in vi tation from field marshal von on alln denburg to be present at the capitulation of warsaw von hindenburg urged fl edins immel its departure in order not to nilsa miss ersing slug the great historic everil event iledan left immediate te ly for berlin A dispatch the morning post from stockholm tock holm say the british govern S ment has granted permission in the swedish cotton SpIn spinners association to convey to sweden 65 1000 bales of cotton now lying in english ports provided satisfactory guarantees are given that tle the cotton will W not be re exported dr sven biedin has spent several months along the lie battle line la in prance france and flanders and begill he will soon pub lish a new book on what lie he has seen this book will be larger than the one he wrote about hla his observations along tho the eastern battle line lie he will ill be sure not to handle the allies with tit silk gloves the swedish cremation society has published Us its annual report for 1914 the membership at the end of the year was the number of cremation funerals for the year was ai of which 85 took place at the stockholm ere cre matory two moro more persian swedes have returned home from persia namely maj 0 11 II and dr if H karl strom they had a very ery pleasant trip through russia where they were treated with exceptional kindness 0 0 the fuel file dealers of stockholm have malsed tile the price of wood tile the amount being from CO 50 cents to 1 per cord the most expensive wood la Is birch which la Is quoted at about ill 11 a cord russia has abandoned tile plan of putting an embargo on tile the exportation of grain to sweden mrs ida Tro trotti tzi who hati has distan gulshen herself by tier her study of the tea ceremonies of tl alii Japa japanese has haa sent a valuable collection of japanese insects to the national inu murium sulim of 0 sweden the insects were gathered la in the vicinity of kobe from which locality tile the museum had very few specimens mrs has promised to send more specimens so BO as to complete tho collection from tills this locality a in spite of atie embargo on the iso ju port pOr atlon tation of eggs the price of eggs is ie constantly soang illg up |