Show IAN NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOWE HOME resume of the th mot most important events in sweden weden fi norway and denmark of interest to the scandinavian in america Re referring erring in a speech at the opening of the now cession of the riko dag to the economic suffering buffering in sweden owing to the war king gustav said gald the fact that the principles of international lacio longer were observed by the belligerents contributed powerfully to the present situation ile he added that a careful regard for the neutrality of sweden and for or her right to decide her destiny necessarily involved personal sacrifices and required that he ha military forces should be increasingly maintained speaking of the convention entered into with ft ath norway and denmark as a result of the war and ot of the meeting of the three kings at al malmo king gustav expressed the hope that the good relations between the tha three countries would be cemented still further in order that the position of sweden might be strengthened although his majesty proceeded our neutrality as I 1 warmly hope may bo be preserved efforts will be required to protect ther country and to mitigate for or the humbler citizens the economic consequences of the war 0 0 it rarely happens that the fish sut suf ter fer on account of a lack ot of air in the lakes of scandinavia such a case however Is reported from kvilva ahe Sat vast it was noticed one day that the water was briskly agitated where a spring runs into the lake it was found that the water was crowded with fish coining to the opening to get fresh air they were so 80 packed that they could be scooped out and the big ones onea could be pulled pulle dout out with sticks the news soon spread sp ead through the neighborhood and the spring was surrounded by men and women eager to catch a mesa of fish the hole in the ice was cut bigger and the fish came as fast as they could be thrown upon the ice until each family in the neighborhood had one or two loads the enlargement of the hole soon supplied the needed air and the last comers got only the smaller fist fish that the others had left on the ice s 0 0 Sw edens leading conservative newspaper the Dag blad expresses dissatisfaction over great britaina Brit ains reply to the american governments note concerning delays to commerce de declara clarf it indicates a determination to achre to what it terms the harassing policy of 0 interfering with and restricting the legitimate commerce of neutrals neutra lr the maintains that the figures quoted by sit sic edward grey in support of 0 the contention that neut neutral ral countries are importing large quantities of pon contraband from the united states for re export to germany are misleading A recent market day at developed an unexpected and not altogether agreeable situation the horse trade became exceedingly brisk belsk the dealers were substantial men whose credit was above suspicion the local bank was drawn upon but aa the demand mand amounted to dollars an hour the cash resources of 0 the bank were soon exhausted the difficulty was remedied by writing out ft A large number of post office drafts which served the same purpose at as cash the sales amounted to about for tho the day 9 9 A fine specimen of the sturdy old swedish stock la is nils fedrik larsson larason of Bre daker though he has corn com his year he still on en joys good health and his mental pow ers era are also well preserved last sum bum trier roer he nse eted lo in hang and harvest ing daini the work ork of an ordinary roan man ever i day nut flut he had a still greater surprise in store A few day ago he buckled on his skates and went to prove that hat he be ld still hold hlf own as a skater orders Ord sr for S edish p perfumes are arc ri re calved from abroad nearly every day the excellency ot of swedish per perfume timer was demonstrated most clearly at the baltic exposition last summer ninny many who visited the exposition are now among the best beat customers the russians consume largo large of perfumes oa in former years they ob talked most of their supply from france but now sweden la Is getting a handsome share of this trado 0 0 king haakon of norway conferred tho the grand croatt of the order of st fit olaf upon haron baron fredrik clamel swedish minister to norway tho the distillers worked hard to induct the government to postpone the botlon of the manufacture of liquor un til after january it IB it la Is not known at this writing whether or not the he gov eminent extended the time from jan uary I 1 to january 15 the swedish steamer vega ha ba leer captured in tho the baltic by a german torpedo boat destroyer and taken inac Swine munde the vega wan from rot not and la Is said bald to have hav e been or its ita way to Stock stockholm holni with a cargo ot 01 war ro argarin garlin |