Show scandinavian NEWS I 1 SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of the most important even events lis in sweden norway and denmark of interest to the scandinavians in america DENMARK the city council of odense has decided to built bellil an old peoples home at a cost of 70 0 the city government ot of copenhagen has asked ached the ell cit council foi an appropriation atlon ot of for repairing the museum 4 0 ren hei jacobi of aalborg N who he had to resign on account of 0 ill health re ce ceded hed as a gift a sup superb erb rug which bich had been made by 70 ladles ladies in ti aalborg alborg A large sum bum of mone ft nas as also given to him dr george brandes Br andea the famous writer and liter literary literak ar critic ho he Is start ing shortly short tor for a lecturing tour in lon don oxford cambridge and other eng lish elsh cities was vas also invited to lecture before the of 0 arts and sciences dinst in st petersburg and later at the uni of his visit to russia has ho however conever Never been prevented bs the russian authorities on the ground that he be is of jewish extraction the oldest minister in denmark Is rev of nakskov he is ninety tour four years old and october 31 last it was nas 70 years since he was ordained he is still in good health and his bis mind Is clear and well melt balanced 0 the danish minister of public worship stated in the fal that there will soon be an insufficient number ot of ministers in denmark this matter was nas brought to the attention ot of rev V amundsen a member ot of the theo logical ta cult and he said eald there is no immediate danger but in a fe few ears the demand mai actually exceed the among the reasons given ghen tor for such an eventuality is the vacillating condition of the organization of the church hur c h and the low loin wages offered to the the c clergy there is also another serf ous one difficulty namely the invasion of 0 infidelity which makes maker the calling of the preacher peculiarly trying SWEDEN professor fahlbeck recently ad dressed th the students of the university of lund on the foreign policy of sweden sieden the address was nas received with nith tumultuous applause the speaker a aim was vas to explain that russia must bo be looked upon as the tha possible enemy of sweden sneden and sweden ought to turn to germany russia does not lay plans merell tor for the northern part but tor for the whole of 0 the scandinavian peninsula alaby things indicate such plans including a second conquest con auest ot of finland which Is taking place at this moment sweden sveden must put forth greater efforts to strengthen her do de tenses and not aim at mere isolation definite arrangements must be made with germany sweden must not ex hect to satisfy tho the greed of russia by a yielding elding jt attitude she must arm her self lor for any eventuality baron bonds bonde speaker of the second chamber ot of the died upon be ing in informed ot of the sudden death 0 ot f hla his wife apoplexy was given as the cause of his death the IN obel nobel prize for literature was aNar awarded ded to tho the hindu net r rabindra nath tagore this Is tho the erst time that this prize has been given to any body but a white person 0 the G gymnastic monastic society of stockholm is making a tour of the eastern part of tho the united states while in new york tho the club received an invitation from the governor general prince AT ar thur duke duka of connaught and strat hearne beams to appear at ottawa their tour includes the united states only but the are anxious to accept the in as the duko duke ot of connaught is the father in law of the crown prince gustat gustaf adolt adolf of 0 sweden royal protector of 0 the tour there was nas a big ban tendered them by citizens of now new york for their entertainment in DOS bos ton the governor of massachusetts and the mayor of boston eire are on the reception committee nearly all tho the members of the society included in t the he troupe are officers in the SiN swedish edish army many of whom took pirt part in the olympic games at stockholm a year ago their leader Is aleut oswald holm a gymnastic authority of note with the gymnasts comes the pro pre I 1 dent of the stockholm olympic boel oty city ca capt 1 L C who acts acta as their traveling mar manager iager 0 two new beet diggers hane hae been invented in sweden and one ot of them may take the alce ot of human beet diggers 4 0 the czech culture society in prag bohemia has sent a protest to tho the swedish academy against giving peter Ro Roa egger segger a nobel prize the tha bohemians Bohem ians admit the liter literary ar merits of Ro segger but he uses his popular it in the tha interest of the Ger maniza tion propaganda enen een his nobel prize will be spent for this purpose the bohemians Bohem ians claim |