The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-12-03
NEWS OF SCANDINAVIA
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
WAS NOT A TEMPERANCE MAN
Stockholm Socialists Elect a Man to
the Riksdas in Whom They
Are Disappointed.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

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Stockholm.
There is a pretty good joke on the
socialists Of Stockholm. Some time
ago they elected a man named Jo-
hanson to the riksdag, who, as they
thought, was a temperance man, but
in this they seem to have been very
much disappointed. The other even
ing he went to a restaurant and asked
for a certain brand of Norwegian
whlskey and when he learned that
they did not keep anything of that
kind in the restaurant he became
abusive and was going to chastise one
Of the walters. The temperance peo-
pie who have supported Johansson
now try to get rid of this unpleas-
ant joke by declaring that he was not
their regularly appointed candidate,
and that he was pushed to the front
by a woman working in a brewery
Be this as it may, Johansson's stand
ing in the riksdag as an ardent tenn
perance agitator has been severely
shaken.
King Gustaf departed for En- gland via
Skane, Nov. Z, and spent a few days
hunting at Skarbersjo before he joined
ueen Victoria in Malmo The royal
couple then resumed the journey to
England via Copenhagen, Gjedser,
Warnemune, Hamburg and Kiel and
Cherbourg, where they were taken
aboard the royal yacht albert and
Victoria" which conveyed them to
London. After completing their visit
to France and England, they will
journey to Baden, where they will Wis
it the Grand Duchess Louise on her
10th birthday, the third of December
They will also pay an official visit to
Vienna and will return to Copenhagen
about Dec. Z.
The beet sugar industry is coming
into its own in southern Sweden.
About 10000 acres of land were put to
sugar beets in Skane last summer and
it is estimated that the farmers will
get over 100000 for their beet
crops. The average yield was about
twelve tons to the acre, and in some
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acre. The beets were pulled under
very favorably conditions, and very
little dirt stuck to them. Next year
1t is estimated that not less than 100,-
900 acres will be put into sugar beets
in that section of the country.
1t is announced, but not officially,
that the Nobel prizes are likely to be
awarded as follows: For chemistry,
Professor E. Rutherford, director of
the physical laboratories of the Uni
versity of Manchester, England; liter
ature, Algernon Charles Swinburne;
physics, Professor Max Plank, pro-
lessor of mathematics and physics in
the University of Berlin; medicine, d.
vided between DR.. Paul Ehrlic, of Ber-
lin, and Professor Ellie Metchinhoff, of
the Pasteur Institutes of Paris.
Dispatches state that both Swedes
and Norwegian have been fishing lob
sters this fall on the Griesebo shall
lows, which are claimed by both coun-
tries. The Swedes are in the ma
jority according to these reports and
the Holsters are more plentiful than
ever. Undoubtedly this is going to
occasion additional trouble between
the two nations and no matter what
measures will be taken, it will be diff.
fcult to put stop to illegal fishing
on the boundary waters.
In Stockholm there are more than
1000 persons out of employment. At
the labor bureaus there is a crowd of
between four and five hundred men in
search OF work every day. but these
organizations in spite of their most
earnest efforts are unable to do any.
thing to supply work for these PEG.
pie. At army quarters there are an
! unusually large number of men, who
desire to join the army, just so as to
be able to get something to eat and
little something to do
Miss Elm Sundvall, the India mis-
slonary, who is at present enjoying a
visit to her home in Stockholm, will
in the near future depart for eau
casia, where she will take up mission.
airy work among the so-called devil.
worshippers. She will be accom-.
panied by Miss Olga Noberg of Ven.
ersborg, who will engage in the same
kind of work. Their work will be
conducted under the auspices of the
Evangelical Mission Covenant OF
Stockholm.
DR.. Sven Hedin delivered lecture
in Shanghai before the Royal Asiatic
society Nov. 5. The following day he
took passage on an English steamer
to Japan and the first week in De-
cember he will continue his journey
to London via Siberia He will reach
Stockholm during the latter part of
the month, where he will be accorded
magnificent reception. ~-a
Sweden is going to build a new de-
stroyer in the near future and has
submitted bids to five of the leading
iron works in the country. No for.
eign bids will be made this time and
hereafter all the Swedish naval craft