, 1874-01-31
NORWAY AND SWEDEN.

lilo German Empire,
NORWAY AND SWEDEN.
| To the Editor qf Tic Chicago Tribune:
| Sin: Thoro appeared III your issue Of tho 28th
OF last month IN article with the above heading,
and credited NJ correspondence Of tho Scientific
| american" !" III Which tho writer unjustly COM
| paros Norway with Sweden. Ho anys that never
| could moro dissimtlar nntions bo united unlor
ono Government than Norway and Swodon.
Mover before, believe, has tue Scientific An'eri
can received moro misguiling correspondence
than this ono, as 1t openly shows that the writer
is quito ignorant Of what he undertakes, a. writo
! about.
III the first place, It is ridiculous to say tho
two nations arc dlssiniar as every ono who
knows eyor 30 little about thctn will
give m opposite opinion. Secondly, they aro
not united under ono Government, but umior
ono King, who rules with worry limited powers.
| The ono Government acts III relation to it's do
mostic affairs Just as independently OF tho other
as do tho Governments Of tlo United States and
the Dominion of Canada. Each country haa
Constitution and b Legislative Body Of its own.
That they hayo Joint Committee to deal with
foreign affafrs is u matter Of course, thai mi ght
have been understood by anybody, cvcn If ho
/
countries.
Tho writer next says TINT Norway clings with
tho most absurd tenacity to old things and old
| ways Of doing them, while Swedou III reudy to
advaneo with tho rost Of the world. To provo Ills
absurd assertions, ho tries to show a IL striking
difference " On thu line uf iarrnd between tho
two alB,--Christiania in Norway, aud
Stockholm, in 'Swclon,-which, ho says, il 400
miles long,-1oo in Norway md 800 III Sweden;
TIC, train running through in twonty hours,
twolyo for tho Swedish. This is not 80. The
train rana with equal speed from Stockholm to
Chrstiania and yice versa, except that it takns
tho Norwegian train littlo longor time to rim
considerable rising Of the ground. It takes the
train about eight hours to run from Christania
to tho City Of Arvica, tho only place Of my con-
sequence after passing the frontior, and where
mistakes, this point for, tho boundary.
(Dy tho wny, in building narrow
gsage railways, % ono %, Of ,,,t' TIC J., loading
companies hnve adopted this mode Of Btructure.)
10 my Norway docs not adyarco with tho rest
Of tho world, il not only halEucination, but T.
falsahooa. Tho historian Knows that That couu-
try Ind been connected with Denmark until 1914,
for about three consecutive centuries, aud rulod
despoticaly by tllat Kingdoms autocrntB These
rulcrs did not trouble themselves much with
Norway's intellectual and material Gevolop-
4tuuto. - t"ek "Ac1' tnpf A"u LUZ l11tAAui
9ntcois ~ Galnot taHos anu revenues, snat most
Z louuu thelt WY INTO LUG DAn'sh trcasusy,
they neglected to DO good for land aud nation.
@ us ~ ~ nGm @ na;pEy conseucu tuat norway IL
pug o. tno cN!i11ca Aailons WHICH. N tho
!nss Hvo or ei1 aecades, ms advanced
conhpic"ouelJ ~ eniRniou1ncnt' eultnro, aclence.
nnu w. taeI nitust1y nas aiso Rent pace "ith
tue tau9, uGS"ltust!htnE TUG ausence o. n"
lasGlls nno ~ .snsAN ae.er 70 tho amer
et s3.. isis.loua' III, ~ WHEN eno nas
4onotaoly coi,petou "'n o'uol nIt4ous IL tuo
q1aIs!pu.un VI 'aoua.s uuu nouy1@olo u1ehslons'
tAol ~ Msulntlollt ioaoulcea, sa4'i1 Hou1 1lalAeI,
a'io Natulo eapilc'ous stoatnieaI W H. Tue woIias
" tnttonuS1tou .S ~ a'ul3 oou.e!sup!o Au'o1t'ou
OF wheh tho present century is 10 rch. -,
bo IL au1nl'teu " TUG "Iltor Ha}e, that TIC
sweaos arc contllysng ana mechanleal people,
anu Ia sIcn things Aneau VI tnelF ue'Bhpors.-
attflpttaole, manly, 10 tlielr easy sccoss
Ato"n tnat Tue NMof"es!al's M arc inaepIea }
70 tAolf nel5hpols III tnls " other Helas. 1ne
latter cast nlla naiulactafo tAolfoWh maohlnoEy'
etc:, any build tnosr own Yossots ana steamers,
WHICH Vislt eVoFy port III tho wo!la norway m lias
lta own lln9 OF steamers plslhR poswoGh thla
country anu EUROPE. quo nas also expah4oa ti1e
cosmopo!lEan tolegrapi-W!re from the British
coast 10 nor own, ano cohtinueo u 70 Tue upper
must point Of tile european continens, North
Cape, IL II deg. latitude, through sp9rsciy-
populated aud partly-htefl4e Q, country. N tiio
Way la lnpfacucagle, aaelo II nniat Luinp'1esI,
sse;.' snt ",n nsfn,,;snd a
mountains. TINT naso astonisnsa 1sas mo more -, tnan
ono ioio'Gn tfase!or. an shote, so traes 10
improve, ana uoes pIohress, III efeIy respect
ao ~ as teI sans eaat. tnaeta ~ .mu npeo'
1nouatlonh wcIe hos kooa, aoteasn tltsVosess-
aong wca .ne mE1.s M mso so,s ~ nooFouH- ,1'
"oula nok hWattta oseI 1ae co''1'sts III t1o aal
| n0f-S1n60n laho uuttGTHloS.