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Show Our Scandinavian Columns. C. C. A. Christensen, Translator. The Czar will not visit Denmark Den-mark this Summer. The Unfortunate"Thingvalla" Again has a Collision. Translated for the Register. The latest news from Copenhagen is to the effect that the Czar will not visit Denmark this summer, and that the r.yal family tlterelore are preparing to make Henisio, (a much smaller place, but nearer to the capital) their summer residence. This is, no doubt, due to a plot against the life "f the Czar, which has been discovered to exist in Paris and other places. BEER DRINKING SOCIALISTS IN CO-OPERATION. It is rumored, that the socialists intend j to buy the Marstraud brewery; wh;ch it one of the largest in Denmark. j As an offset to this move among the j laboring classes, who are striving to get cheaper beer, all ihe other brewenes in Copenhagen have consolidated their interests, for mutuiil protection cl the immense profits which ihey derive from ihe beer-drinking populace. r.joo masons and 1,000 tenders (laborers) (labor-ers) have struck for higher wages and a reduction to 9 lion is as a dav's work. This has caused a great deal of trouble already; and it is leaied, will lead to other strikes in Ihe near lutuie. The unfortunate steamer "Thlngvalla has again had a collision, but this lime she siruck an iceburg. It will be renieni-bered, renieni-bered, that about iwo years ago she came in collision with ''Geyser," anoiher emi-giaiit emi-giaiit sieamer belonging to the same company, and that Geyser went to the ; oitom with ueaily all on board. We copy from Nord. Dlotter, German New Yoik paper: With her bow stove in, the emigrant steamer "Thingvalla" armed on Monday. Mon-day. She left Copenhagen, May 6th., Christi.iuia Ihe 8th mid Cluistiansaiid the. 9th ol the same month, witli about 500 passengers on board; and took the usual course Norlh of Scotland, encountering several heavy gales, till she had Cume within about 400 miles East i t St. Johns, Newfoundland, and was now in the misty ice-regions, that 111. ikes these waters so dangerous. It was in the li ght between the iSlh and 19th of May; and Capt .in I.awb bad jast lam down to rest, leaving the second mate in chaige ct tiie vessel, while a man by the name of I'eler Andieas or-gensen or-gensen was oil tile I ink m: . i'eter soon discoveied something some-thing mvs erunts - alieeMs-t-wWiieJsar took to be m st, but afterwards' luind lo be an icebuig, though too late to avoid it, or irive ai.y alaiui; and the next 111 mem came the dieadfnl rras.li, which made the ship shiver 111 every pait of its coi struc ion. Tue cap ain, tushiiig on tiie coinoiandeis bridge, at once ie.il. zed the state of atfiirs; bui, as t:ie male' had alieady cau.-ed the engines to Ue reveis-ed, reveis-ed, the vessel was ihen slowly moving back. The passengers came rushing on dtck, terror-striken by the shock lhat had awakened ihem Irom their slumber, but by the captain's placid manner and pasifjiiig assurances that all immidiaie danger was over, a panic with its serious ! consequences was prevented. Tho the bow was knocked 111, yet the danger was all above the water-line, and ilie'ciew were at once set to woik at repairing the breakage- as best tliey cculd with the material on hoard. First an immense lol of ice that bad fallen on the deck from the iceberg had to he removed, and afterwaids a' kind of patch was made of timber and tightened with cement and fixed on the inside. This took about 16 bonis of haid woik to accomplish; but fortuualely enabled the captain to leach New York in safely. 300 reindeers were lately bought in Lapland for transportation to mre Southern paits ol Norway. These, to ihe Laplanders, indisp?nsible domestic animals live 011 Ihe scantiest of fodder, which mostly consists of mosses, that grow on the mountains, and which they, duihg the greater part of tha year," must tiiid i y scraping the snow away with' their large shovel-I ke horns. 1 hey will iherefi re on the more Southern mountain-range find it much easier to make a living, and therefore also be of greater benclit to their owner in comparatively comparative-ly milder climes. This large held uf reindeers was driven through Guld brandsdale and Valders and were eventually even-tually destined to settle down in Tele-mmken. Tele-mmken. Two Laplanders were in charge of the herd. That Norway also has, wealthy men, is proven bv the assessment-roll in Christiansund, a small city in the principal princi-pal fishing district. Knutzen of that town pays in lax annually 41,851 crowns out ol his property, tint is assessed for 4J millions, and which brings him an iiinual inc jnie of 336.000 crowns. His tax is actually one fourth of the taxes derived from the entire city. Another wealthy man has lately lost 70,000 crowns, by being security ior other parties. That Norway exports a great deal ol lumber and fish, is well known, but thai horses and sluep are exported 011 quae a large scale is perhaps not generally known, llius one steamer brought a dock of 1700 sheep over to England, and the same firm was buying several bundled bun-dled horses for the sani; purpose. The King of Sweden, Oscar ind, is a man of learning and perhaps one of the greatest scieniiests in Europe. He is at present making preparations for publishing pub-lishing his literary works, comprising many volumes on various branches of science, ail and polit.is. A geiilleman in Gtteborg has donated 12,000 crowns to read ng room lor .he Uboiing il.isse and 5.600 f it a U.orers institute. ' - - The health of the crownpnnce is im proving, but he is still in N zia, Eraiice, |