Show scandinavian NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of the most important events in sweden norway and denmark of interest to the scandinavians in america SWEDEN public attention has recently been drawn to an autodidact who has been quietly at work namely johan forde hn foreman of public improvements of the city of visby who has been studying the archeology archaeology arche of that city with a never nagging flagging interest in con ducting the work of putting down water mains and electric conduits he had a splendid opportunity to learn the topography of the ancient as well as the medieval or visby the result of Ford elins researches now appears in the form of charts and sketches showing the minutest details of what may be ot of any interest among what has been struck in the excavations the task which mr flordelin For delin has accomplished so quietly and unostentatiously has been recognized in higher circles and it has been proposed that the city of visby procure some of his dra drawings Aings and charts and that an appropriation be made for assisting him in continuing his researches and making the work nork more complete the careful draNN drawings Ings of mr air fordella Fordel For delin ln even in their present condition give a good view of the surface of the ground during the stone age and the age as well as of the extent of the improvements prove ments in those ages one of the leading men of the swedish american steamship company has stated that the company so far has not dared to order the necessary steamers A comparatively small amount of money remains to be subscribed bed but the directors have decided to make no vigorous effort to reach the amount decided upon until it Is definitely settled whether the city of gothenburg gothenberg Got henburg is going to abide by its subscription of something like our national government was called upon to interfere but the matter has not been settled yet As soon as the government has handed down a final decision no matter what its character may be the company will at once proceed to raise the balance of the capital stock among the swedish americans another reason tor for moving slowly Is that on account of the war it is difficult to get suitable steamers built in england A treaty was ratified in petrograd Petro grad bet between cen sweden and russia mutually acknowledging the financial commercial and industrial interests of the respective spec tive countries coming at this time the signing of a treaty between russia and sweden would seem to be more than ordinarily significant it if the new agreement indicates a removal of many of the causes of difference bet between Neen sweden and russia it means a considerable victory for the diplomacy of the allies tor for sweden at the outbreak of the war was almost the only country in the world which could be said to be pro german there v vas Ls considerable german sentiment in holland and switzerland and more in bulgaria but sweden was strongly against the allies the second chamber of the appropriated as a subsidy to the national bureau of information of the temperance organization this is what may be called a startling item of expense but this year it was seriously threatened the chief argument against the appropriation was the fact that the temperance bureau had made a bad break by stating that a certain minister nab opposed to the temperance work nork while as a matter of tact fact lie had bad been a temperance worker ahe I 1 he bureau afterwards antei wards apologized for its break but this did not prevent the anil temperance members of the rigs dar dag from makin making 9 use of the incident tor for all aal it was worth orth the vote in the second chamber was to 67 during a dri i r night a tra decided to make a 1 visit tn t a ilar at nord ni arli ik i k parish the only Hai lable entrance under the circumstances was vas the ventilator the passage was as narrower at the lower end and the man got stuck completely stuck mid he had to stay for five hours before being released not to liberty however but only to be taken to the office of the sheriff two committees of the have agi agreed ced by a unanimous vote to propose a revision of the working mens pen pension laws in the interest of the benedicia some very interesting statistics have been collected with reference to the physique of the swedish soldiers exact records of the measurements ol of the recruits at the time of enlistment bince the year 1887 have been kept A compilation of the figures shows that the height of the recruits has in creased steadily from year to year and the total average increase during the ears 1887 was no less than thai one and one tenth inches the proportion of recruits of maximum height to lc abo be whole number of recruits has also increased from 01 to 03 per cent |