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Show Our Scandinavian Columns. , I A Brief Sketch of II I us, j tho Kxquim ix. A Traveli-i,'r C'.i i:-h i j Norway. ! ' I Danish Butter-A Kirl ire,! mc.Etc. C. C. A. CHRISTEN.nEN, TKAKilATOR. Trauslalra terthe KaoisTW Doinga in Denmark. HANS, TI1K ESQUIMAUX. Greenland, tins cotnpaiamelv northern north-ern Danish possession in the exiieme north, has produced une.nun of fame. He was engaged in several Not ill pole. ExptUitioiis as guide, hunter and iiirp-retei; iiirp-retei; and any one who has sead the naratives of the thrllng adentii!es in I lie icy regions cf the 1101 th, under Kane, Hall, Nate or Noidenskjold, have been made lamiiar with Esquimaux Hans. A special biography of him was published publish-ed 111 London about ten yeais ago, and another j? being published now ill a scientific geographical paper. In this paper great cwdit is accorded him lor his selfsacrifices, lulelily, and qii.ckness ol mind and in In dv the most diliiicult and perilous ciicumstances. Thus in 1872 and 73 when be served under un-der Capt. Hall, he saved twenty men.w ho with Himself, while engaged on- the ice some distance from the sii'p, weie set adnfl hv a stoim and thus seemingly ! cut il from all chance of tsc.ipf Ii 111 a hoiriiile d'.'.itil by hunger, ai.d c .Id, or j t!ie ya viiing giave m.tVriieath ihe.i j feet. When ni'.ii.ii.g il.nvi.t il upon ' tr.ein, lifter a telt.l'le night speni ii, ai.x-j ai.x-j ions appieiiensii.il ot tile d.ti!.4ei to utiich j tlicv weie exp sed, liieir tciioi v as only aiigmeiitend.wlien tliey f titn! tueimulves wiihoiit prov sions or shelter on ihe ice, ai.d witii 110 sign of any ship to give them a ray of hope. Thus iin:y were diilting with the ice for moHMh.iii six mouths, till finally thev were puked np by a passing vessel near Newtouii'ilaud. The ice was then full ol holes ai.J in the last stages of desoltilion, audit would have let these brv; suheieis into the watery grave 111 a very slnot time, had no; this timely rebel ariived. h Was Hans tint provided them wi'Ji loud, Consisting Con-sisting ; of seals and biids, the only thing within reach, and to gel even tins Hans jfien had to stand in water up to his aim pits. Hans was rewarded w ith several medal?, and his mysterious life will always be aisociatied with Arctic histoty, though he was only a poor, illiterate, hall-hied Esquimaux, born in the most forbidding poition of our globe. He died Aug. trill , Heavy Rninstoims. A tremendous lainstotm passed over Dennmik 011 the 1 Jolh ol May, doing a great deal cf dam- ! oujioinKS ini'HMH""VfeMe .WeW set on lire and destroyed, the telegraph connection broken and some stock killed, kill-ed, but, as tar as known, no human lives were lost. Danism Putter has for many years been expoited to England in laige quantities and is now about to get a still better maiket in -Spain, where this article fetches from 75 cents to one dolliar per pound. At one international shootingmatch in Rome.ltaly, Dr. Voislund Kjar cf Copenhagen Copen-hagen took the cake in the form cf the huge gold medals lor being the best maiksmau. |