Warren sheaf., 1901-10-03
SWEDEN.

rrllce OF Wales, forgetting that his
guest had at last become king.
SWEDEN.
Sixteen corporals at Sollefte were con-
fined in Jail for three days because they
had cut off the regular brass buttons of
their uniforms and substituted gilt but
tons. The reason for making the change
was that the latter can be kept bright
without work.
A petition to the Salvation Army of
Malmo for public aid was referred to the
poor board. and after mature considera-
ton, the board declared: The restaurant
and lodging house of the Salvation Army,
under its present management, is real
misfortune to the city. a danger and a
temptation to weak characters, an invita-
tion to a life of vagrancy. idleness and
begging.
DR.. Rose, of Dresden, who has examined
the teeth of great numbers of school chill
dren in different countries, looked at the
teenth of every boy in eight classes in the
public schools of Mjolby, and when he
had finished he said that the teeth of
young Sweden were not so good as they
might have been.
The fact that the birds Of passage have
hurried south with great haste has made
the old citizens predict an early fall and
winter.
southern Sweden during the early part
of September that small ponds were COW
cred with a thin crust Of ice
From fifteen to twenty carloads of lin
gon (red berries) were exported daily by
Of rir
Of September. The bulk of the fruit went
to Germany.
Badgers are numerous in the vicinity
Of Forsnas. Sodermanland, and they have
done considerable damage by stealing
fruit in the orchards at night
The marine department has completed
plans and specifications for two new tor
pedo boats, one of the first class and one
of the second, and the cost of each must
not exceed S75. 600 and s45,OOO. respectively
The government shipyards being crowded
with work. the private shipbuilders of
Sweden have been asked to submit bids
for the construction of the new torpedo
boats.
The herring fisheries off Simrishamn
have given enormous returns this season.
many men having cleared over $3.50.
A Berlin correspondent to the Gothen-
borg Handelstiding states that August
Strindberg expects at least a part of one
of the great Nobel prizes this fall, and
Disappointment, he says, will be keenly
felt.
NORWAY.
The total deposits in the Norwegian
Savings Bank Jan l, 1901, were sS2, $50, ,0OO
ioh o. nm
for one year. The number Of depositors
was 1,241, or 80 per cent of the popu-
lation. The average for each depositor
was 1923, and If the deposits were dis
tributed equally. each man, woman and
child in the country would have $40. The
assets Of the savings banks themselves
were about 10.0O0,0OO
cablegram from London states that
on the day of the funeral Of President
Mckinley the services at ST. Edmund s
church, Kristiania, were attended by the
officers and men of the United States
training ship Buffalo, the cabinet minis
ters, consuls and others. / A salute was
fired by the Buffalo and forts
Norway exported $4,000 tons of ice in
August.
The temperance people of Kristiania
have adopted a platform of their own, de-
manding, in brief, a certain time for clos
ing all places where. liquor is retailed a
samlag monopoly Of the whisky trade, a
better regulation of the restaurants, the
building of WOrkingmen's homes partly
at public expense, free stationery for the
school children, public aid for gifted chill
dren in order to give them an adequate
education, the opening of number of
public baths, and a continuation Of the
building of streets and roads in the out
skirts of the city.
1t tickles the Norwegians. however, to
hear that once in a, while foreigners place
Swedish cities in Norway, which goes to
show that the latter country is a little
better known abroad than formerly,
The berry crop of Finmarken is light.
The Fevig Ship Building Company, OF
Arendal, has received orders for two steel
freight steamers from Mobile, Alabama.
The cost of the ships will be at least
$3.50, ,OOO
The taxes are towering ever higher, and
thousands Of Norwegian taxpayers feel
as did a man in Gudbrandsdalen who said
the other day: II thought of starting a
new enterprise. But I dare not. The To-
cal taxes have reached IS per cent and
there is no telling where the increasing is
going to STOP 1 think we shall have to
go west, all of us?" By the west" he
meant America. F
National Pride.-A man who recently re.
ceived q letter addressed to "Christiania
Sweden" returned it, after writing on the
envelope: ITO be returned; Christiania ir
Sweden not known"
The cabbage crop Is failure in the