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Show Our Scandinavian Columns. s C. C. A. Chkistlvsf.n, Translator. , . j A Practical Joke on a Sct.l arian Parcou. : i Some of the Horror of Russain "Exile"- The "Wild West" Sho-n in Denmark, Etc -,Etc. TtamUted torthe Rkcistek Denmark It is repotted from various parts of; Denmark, that the uncommonly cold and wet weather has retarded the growth of the grops geueially, and that the harvest prospects, in consequence, are any tiling but promising. The Danish prince Valdemar has now lost all prospects of becoming King o Uulgaria. At a family council held at Osborn palace fKmrlandl. where ill. A good swimmer. A Mr. Tradiaidah performed; quite a feat on July 6th, by swimming; across the Sound between Itenniark and Sweden under very un-j un-j favorable circumstances. The sea was i very :in:uly and the current string, yc-t , he s'i-.ceeded in reacting E'singtrf from Klsuii ire. after having been iu the j water four h lursand 26 m notes I A least f .r the poor U'iie:i t s :e i:ii"t Kaiser Vilnrlm I Hide. I her tiui.s;; paengers fur to g.ve tlit-nia chai.ee to mike a t ur up 111 the country, she also landed tueir provisions in ready-made ready-made shape, consisting of 1500 Sandwiches, Sand-wiches, which, however ad were con tiseated by the costuiu officers, and distributed dis-tributed among the poor" No doubt the poor children did apprwia'e the. German Saudwitches, though they werenot prepare pre-pare J specially foi them. A Swedish. Mandarin has lately visited Stockholm. This peison is Capt. acob Patterson, who was tmperial harbor-captain harbor-captain in Shanghai, China. Mr. l'at-letson, l'at-letson, w ho is bi.i n in the province of Skaane, entered the Chinese service as early as 1S60, and by his successful arrangement of the harbor defences of Shanghai, while it was threatened by the t rench last year, he was create j a "Mandarin of the flltte Button" and DriUr of the t lt-3ir.. siw tl, .r ...UI..U German Emperor was a guest with bis grandmother. (Jueen Victoria, this was decided against U'aldemar, although he is brother-in-law to the I'rince of Wales and uncle-iii-law to the German emperor. emper-or. It is said, that Valdemai's brother King George of Greece, is the principal cause of this. Perhaps he is himself interested in the Throne ol liulgaria? The island ol Helgoland is now German Ger-man property. August ioth a portion of the German fleet under direction of Emperor William anchored by the little ' island and his Majesty went ashore about noon in tliepresenseol nearly the entile population. The Emperor made a short speech, after winch the German Hag was hoisted over the batterirs under tiring' f their cannon and salute from the! fleet. Thus these islanders have now been I Sold the second time within the present I century. j The emporor departed from his newly j acquired possession a few hoius later ! I K C J.l.n A . .. I is a verv high grade of distinction in the Celestial Ktgndom. RUSSIAN EXILJES. The Swedes is Finland are now feeling the yoke of Russia rule to a feaiful extent, being deprived of all thtir former rights and privileges. What Russian tule eventually means will perhaps be better understood by the following report to the society for m. .derating the sufferings of the Siberian Siber-ian exile, belj iu Londo:i lately, by a Nihilist leader, I'nnce Peter Krapot-ski, Krapot-ski, lie says: Twenty thousand people, men, women and children, ate transported to S biria annually. The main station is in Tomsk f i oni which place the unfortunate prisoners pris-oners tre distributed throughout the other parts ol that dreadful country. The prison building in Tomsk will only have decent room f ,r about looo peisoiis.bin is has often as many as 3000 crowded inside its miserable confines i , .mini: (.in , , THE WILD wtST. The well known cow boy-cintvs "Buffalo "Buf-falo liiir.will be iu Copenhagen this summer, sum-mer, and arrangements are being made for erecting stables and slands'on the same grounds that were occupied during dur-ing the ce.ilenial exposition in 18SS "Riif. tal.i It IT' has been performing "fie li'iJ West" in most of the lar;e cities of Europe, and dining the Woil'ds Fair iu l'aris his company drew large crowds ol people, to witness their feats of wild eq-iiisirian eq-iiisirian peifurm.nice and horse-break-i i. r. The company, oiusisting of re.i! row-bovs row-bovs and in iaa-i, wilf atnve in Copen- lirfiren tne latter p-u t of A ij rUst I I rf'P ' "''Vhen. they mrZ.TZZZl le JSf'med iii a c.rcfs uuMat Ulti; , i.a ',M to.oou piply . . V . . APRACTICA JKE. , .. j i .. In Vmsky-isrf Hilstibi-o DjsNvi " n funny utoiy is i-ld ol a .farin'r, who' 7 rrnmt tithe v:IU re-oars m watititu him I About 500 are generally at the same, time sick and placed in the hospital j though it has only been calculated to ac-J ac-J comod ite 26o,and moiepeople are there ' f ire killed than cuied. When going from I Tomsk to Est Sibeiia, the prisoners f must walk all the way, olten ihousaruli j ol miles, guarded by cruel soldiers, who j use the butt of tlieir guiisi as clubs, in j making the poor prisoners proceed faster. fast-er. Ten thousand ol thee unfortunates j are thus annually hurried away to mis-; mis-; ery and death w th nit even having seen jajndgenr hid ihe appearance of a I trial. Many must woik under ground in ; the deep c!aik gol l-niine. wheh are j kept going d.iy and night, that the Czar jmivget bis coveted thirteen cwt. of! I gold annually, thin obtained through sa j I inn -Ii suff.'ring of thonsaniN of his su 1 I fern a '1 most ot them mtiocen,too i f (even the crimes with whnrff ttief lhr.: ehatged directly or incKrectly Is it therefore to be wondered- ait, that new conspirac es ate formed-against ll life of the czar.a., the rt r.iseatativa hckd or ' j sncii a in. inster of lyranicai' auto'i tacy? . I mis iw latest news irom Knssta are to the pffrct.that a new and wide spread conspiracy against the life of the; Czar, has been discovered, in which a profes-sor.ar profes-sor.ar the university in St. Petersburg and many students are implicated. Also in Moskwa hive many arrests ben made. Two officials m high positions posi-tions at the imperial court, have com- ' mitted suicide to escape the threatened punishment for participation. Ij go null home, as hefjhe fainter ) had n child, thit should be christened by sprinkling, anal this business should lie a-tended to at once T.iegjod nat.ired clergviniii made ready at once and followed fol-lowed the min and they soon arrived at the place of their destination. Finding appearances rather mysterious for such an occasion, the parson enquired for the babv, but was du:nb-f uinded when told that ;t was not yet born. Whaidoy iu mean by this? asked the parson as he could hardly believe that he had understood the man's reply. Ti'e 'nun finely got over his firsi scare and said, that inasmuch as a child belongs to the Devil as long as it has not been baptized lie was anxious to have his child emer this world us a child of God and f.r this reason wanted it baptized before it was born, which event might happen at any moment. 1 he good parson was here in a dilemna. 'I he people were taking these precaution ary measures according to their conceptions concep-tions and understanding of the onhodox doctrine ol their cieed, and he did not dare to rWrlre rhfm last he found the means of escape by enquiring what the parents intended to call the "unborn" candidate for baptism Now the poor folks were thrown on the troubled waters; for as neither of them could tell whether the child would be a boy or a girl, they had never thought ol a name for it, without which the parsou could not perform the ceremony of baptism. Norway. During the visit o the German emperor emper-or in Kristiania, he obtained KingOscar's content to hiie Norwegean and Swedish seamen for the German navy. A woman, Charlotte Christina Anderson And-erson poisoned her husband, who has just returned from America. Some un pleasant scenes had occured.as the man wanted lie to return with him to America, which she leliwed to do. She then concluded to rid herself of him, and poisoned him bv boiling matches in his coffee. Madagascar-Womin in Norway Two young native women from the island of Madagascar "on the East of Africa," that have been in Christiania several years, undergoing christian training and education, are now ready to return as missionaries among their heathen countrymen. Besides their teligious training, they have been instructed in-structed in music and lady's work iu general, and it is said, made good progress. pro-gress. The religion they are supposed to support, is, of course, the Lutherean, with uaby-sprinkling. Sweden At present there is quite a stir among certain classes of the Swedish people, to obtain universal sulfiage, including women. wo-men. A vein of coal five feet thick was, struck under the bottom of the e, while at work deepening the harbor at Elsingburg. Sweden. A funeral and baby baptism after Lutheran Lu-theran rites took place lately at the same limein a v llage church in Norway (in Overhalden.) A young married couple cou-ple were buried in orw grave, while their seven weeks old twin-boys w,ere christened christen-ed immediately af'er. . -. - v-. . . - -wr. , . |