Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-09-21
NEWS FROM THE FAR NORTH.
Enormous Export Of Oats and Rye
From Sweden.
POLITICAL AGITATION IN NORWAY.
The Law EutItling Old Laborers In
Denmark 20 Pensions Is Now
In Force.
POLITICAL AGITATION IN NORWAY.

Five hundred aud thirty.1ve persons
emiptatsd the other day TO America by
way Of Goihcnburg.
The Industrial exposition at Gothen.
burg was In favor of Sweden being
represented ut the Columbian Fair In
1893.
The Rev. John Blorllng, Of Linkop.
Ing, died at the advanced age Of NJ
years. He was a man with many
friends.
The export OF oats aud rye has enor.
mously Increased during the present
year. The export during the flfst
seven months has been about 10000.
600 Kilograms ~ compared with H..
10000 kilograms during the same
time last year.
The general convention Of Swedish
physicians was opened tho FIRST week
In September. Many foreign Disciples
Of .Esculapus were present.
John q. Pyschmann, the oldest In.
habltant Of Geiie, IL nj the advanced
age Of % years.
The fourteenth local good tcmplar
lodge has just been organized In
Norrkoping.
Seventeen "blind pig" keepers were
to be tried the other day before the
municipal court Of Sundsvall.
Living pine aud spruce trees have
10 serve ~ telephone poles between
Motala and Wlmmerathd a. well M In
other localities.
An60 year old man Of Ve1io has
not for twenty-five years beon outside
the house In which he lives, although
he Ia not elck, aud dresses every day.
NO. Hoist, n geologlst, will soon
visit North America. He viii devote
his investlgations either TO our glacial
drifts or the bed rocks.
The tugar bocts around Wndstena
promise large yield wherever they
have been properly tended 10.
An sl-year.old woman Of Norrkop-
ing emigmted recently 10 America,
where she has relatives. The old lady
was In good spirits.
Mn. Anna katarlna Thoren, an
old inhabltant OF Gothenburg and q
prominent church member, died at the
age Of % ycars.
Tho Temperance sentiment has been
growing for some time In LiukOping,
aud one result Of II lisa number u 50.
called "toniperance restaurants" These
are not allowed 10 sell liquors M such
but simply 10 serve beer with meals.
Investigations have proven, however,
that In those institutions beer has been
sold ia such quantities that the cus-
toners got as drunk M Ia the regular
saloons.
tits now proposed 10 connect Sweden
Il.VpawFE La /. Itast.s.l al.Faas.sl,
Oercsuud. Through, not under II, "a
huge Iron pipe, big enough for passen.
ger trains to run IN, l. 10 he laid from
Elsinorc 10 Helsingborg, two English
mines, on hollow iron pillars filled with
concrete. IL Ia proposed 10 10 balance
the weight VI the pipe with the dis.
placed mass OF water that the pillars
will have scarcely any burden to carry.
The tunnel IA 10 be laid 80 deep ~ u 10
secure from the action Of the waves
aud out Of tho reach Of the biggest
ships. One danger will remain, how
ever, against which tho skill Of the
engineers can provide no protection
the peril nom sinking wreck. Should
su0h one strike the tunnel II would
be all up with II and with anything
that happened 10 DO enTOute between
the two coasts In an Instant. The cost
VI the tunnel Is put Mt Si,OOo,OOO or
Whereabouts.
Sweden stands behind no country,
not even the United States, In popular
education. To this may perhaps be
due the superiority of the swedish
Immigrant 10 this country over immi.
grants from some European countries.
The number Of school children per
1000 inhabitants l. l40. Technical In.
strIctlons. especially OF women, " n
great feature. The difficulties In the
way Of school attendance are very
great, not only because Of the severe
northern winters, but altO because the
people live TO u large exteh on Isolated
farms.
one OF Swoden's most important In.
dustries IL copper mining. The larg.
est copper mine In Sweden IL that Of
Fahlnn. IL could well be ranked
among the wonders OF the world. fhe
interior Of the mine Is composed OF
chambers, each dedicated to ono Of
Sweden's kings or heroes, aud shining
~ bright rs fire. The entire pOpula-
ton Of the neighboring villages Is
occupied solely In working the mines
Many OF them practically live In them,
like the tin miners OF Cornwall.
Horses are taken down into the mine,
from which they never emerge 10 SEQ
the light OF day.
goRwAY.
Queen Sophie, who has been staying