The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-05-07
news Of Scandinavia.
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
THE ROYAL HOUSE OF SWEDEN
People Put Up 100000 Crowns An.
uually to Maintain It-Comment
of Helsingbore News.
paper.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Stockholm.
It costs in round numbers not less
than 100000 crowns annually to
maintain the royal house Of Sweden
and this enormous sum is expended by
a country which has only about 5,O00,
600 people. But Sweden has a mon
archial form of government and like
all such countries she will have t.
maintain kings and queens and princes
and elegant palaces, etc. 1t costs Swe
den annually about 10000 crowns to
maintain the royal court and then she
has to spend about 625. 900 crowns al.
nua]ly to keep the different palaces in
proper repair, etc. The Swedish kin.
has monthly income from the gov
eminent amounting to ia, os3 CROWNS.
For every working day during the
year he has thus a daily income Of
4.5G3 crowns, which, every thing con-
sidered, is even a good days pay for
a king. A Helsingborg paper re-
marks regarding the enormous sums
expended for the maintenance of q
king: THAT we should pay so much
more for the maintenance Of our king
than the Frenchmen and Americans
expend for their presidents, depends Of
course in the first place upon the fact
that we have monarchial form OF
government. But the time has come
when Sweden will wake up to the fact
that she is only a slave to time hon
ored traditions and that a republican
form of government is by far the more
ideal. From more than one source
there come complaints regarding the
tremendous expenses involved in main
tanning royalty and although the new
king has given unmistakable signs of
an economical nature, there will soon
or or later come day when the coun-
try will take up the agitation for a
more popular form Of government"
The body of Emanuel Swederborg
has been returned to Sweden. It was
exhumed in London, April I, and sent
to Sweden on board the cruiser Flygia,
which is SWeden's finest warship. A
London paper gives the following &C.
Swedish government requested the ex-
humation and surrender of the body
and the British government assented.
The Swedish minister to Great Britain,
Count Wrangel, Pastor Lindskog and
officers from the Fylgia, attended the
exhumation. The leaden shell of the
coffin was found intact. It was opened
and in it were found the bones of the
famous author and heap of dust. The
shell was then encased in a new COZ
fill. placed on the altar table and COW
cred with wreaths sent by Swedish So
cieties and other admirers of Sweden
borg. Pastor Kindskog conducted q
service in the English and Swedish
languages. Among those present were
members of the Swedish legation here.
members of the Swedish colony OF
London, representatives of various
Swedish societies and Friherre
Leyonhjelm, a descendant Of Sweden
borg"
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
who have been the guests of King
Christian and Queen Louise at Copen-
hagen during the past few days, ar
rived in Stockholm last Sunday, where
extensive preparations had been made
for their coming. They arrived early
last Sunday and last Monday evening
they continued their journey to Christi
anla. Their reception in Stockholm
was an enthusiastic one and never be-
fore have the preparations for receiv-
ing foreign monarch been so Ella
borate. A full detail Of their reception
in Stockholm will be published in these
columns next week.
Sweden is rapidly becoming Ameri-
canized. The country is now going to
nave railway merger. AS is perhaps
known, Sweden has national railway
system, but there are also manv pri
waite lines, some of considerable I'M
portance, such as the Falun-G G othen-
burg line, the Stockholm-Vesteras line
the Gef1e-Dala line, and others, con-
Meeting important commercial centers
and effort is now being made to bring
about cooperation among these lead
ing private lines. If this is success
ful, the "merger' will be able to COM
pete with the national railroad in GER
tain districts.
Swedish papers state that the GOV
eminent is expected to ask the rfksdag
for an appropriation for sending an ex-
petition to Spitzbergen. The aim Of
the expedition will be to make geo.
graphical and geological investiga-
tons. The expedition may leave Nor
vfk, Norway, in the early part of July
and return in the latter part of August.
The men and the outfit will be car
r1ed across the water by the gunboat
"Svenksund."
hlng Gustaf will visit Copenhagen
during the middle of May after attend
ing the wedding Of his son, Prince Will
helm, in st. Petersburg: It is re-
ported on good authority that King
Gustaf will visit several foreign courts
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