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is also to be seen there. The
sacristy contains many curiOsities and
relics, including ecclesiastical VeSselsin
solid gold and silver, vestments, crowns,
scepters, the clothes of the Sture, who
were tyrannically put to death by Eric
XIV. in 1868, a garment of st. Blrgltta
Q3S3), and so forth. Outside the church
is the Erik's Kalla, or spring, which is
said to have burst forth on the spot
where the saint was killed.
Then, is also to be seen the botanic
garden of Llnn@us, the large but UNI
pleasant looking SlOtt, a castle founded
pleted); new hospital, the finest, 1T is
said, in all Sweden, the Gustaviarum
for geological collections and studies,
the cemetery where the distinguished
Elias Fries and Eric Gustavus Geiier are
buried. In connection with this de-
scription of UpSala, it might be well to
recall in our memory that at the period
when the kings of Sweden resided at
Gamla Upsala it formed their CONNER
cial town and harbor. In 1876 the head
quarters of the archiepiscopal see, which
had been founded century earlier,
were transferred from Gamla Upsala to
lected Stockholm as their future resi-
dence. At Gamla Upsala, just men
toned, are the three KungshOgar, or
Tumuli of the Kings. named after the
Scandinavian gods, Thor, Odin and Freyr,
each about 5S feet high and 225
feet in diameter. One of them was
opened in 1874, when evidence of their
having been thrown up by human hands
was found. Near them is the Tingshog
(Assize hilD, from which the kings of
Sweden down to GuStavus VaSa used to
address their subjects. So much about
Upsala as it is, its history and many
monuments. But now something about
its people, students and professors.
The population lives mostly from its re-
latiOn to the university and its students.
The very air of the city is that OF ped
agOgium of talkative students. What
one knows the whole city knows. l my
self was not tWenty-fOur hours in the
place before the whole city knew that
"a Swede-American newspaper man"
was there, enjoying the hospitality of
UDSala.
SOME FAMOUS DIGNITARIES OF THE
CITY.
The most illustrious and certainly
most beloved parsonage of Upsala is
the archbishop, A. N. Sundberg, little
known outside Sweden, but so much the
more inside its limits. He is a man in
his SEVENTEEN year, tall, gray-haired, but
pleasant looking, of a some sort of
military appearance. had the pleas
ure of an interview with the gentleman,
and found him exceedingly interesting,
very polite and thoroughly posted on all
tThe archbishop is the prO-chancellor of
the university, and resides in the arch
bishopal palace close to the stately Ca
thedral. Our conversation turned
naturally and at once into politics, and
l must say profited much by his clear
and we'll expressed opinions on the sub
ject. The political situation in Sweden
will be my next special to the GLOBE.
l shall then avail myself of the valu-
able information I got from the arch
bishop. Prof. j. A. Lundell is another
gentleman | met. He is instructor in
the Slavonic languages at Upsala uni
versity. The other day liste ned to
one of his lectures on old Bulgarian or
grouped to the Servian, while being so
little acquainted with it, although him,
self Sfav. The foundation of Sla-.
vonic scholarship, as is well known in
the world of learning. was laid
by Dobrovsky Q753-1S29), and Mr..
Lundell is, in justice to his great lin
guistical knowledge, the Dobrovsky of
Scandinavia. Prof. r. Thalen is ce-
lebrity in the earth's magnetism; Prof.
j. Hagstromer equally so in national
and international Jurisprudence. Prof.
Harold Hjerne is a linguistic genius, be-
sides an historian of great merit. Pro-
fessors Olaf Hammersten, A. F. Holm
gren, c. G. Malmstrom, G. B. Mesterton,
F. r. Kjellman (who was one ON the
famed Nordenskiold expedition). A.
Norcen, Theodor Hagberg, P. T. Cleve
and others. are men of European au-
thority on their respective speclalties of
learning. Upsala is certainly the CEN
ter of Swedish intellect and science, but
not so as regards politics and it's neces-
sary development in the kingdom, not
withstanding the archbishop'S excellent
knowledge of its situation.