The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-01
TlDIllCS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
News Of General Interest
IRON Three Countries.
INVENTION IS IMPORTANT

INVENTION Is IMPORTANT
TWO Swedish Engineers Evolve a
Michrophone for Long.Distance Teie.
phoning Which Is So Powerful That
It Increases the Transmitting Pow.
er Of the Average Telephone Over
100 Per Cent-Iron Wires Can &c
Used Instead Of Copper.
SWEDEN.
Two Swedish engineers, C. Egner,
chief of the Swedish telegraph bureau,
and J. Gunnar Holmstrom, have after
several years of energetic research, in.
vented a michrophone for long.dis.
lance telephoning, which is so npwer.t
ful that it increases the transmitting
power of the average telephone over
100 per cent. It was while conduct.
Ing a series of experiments with wire.
less telephoning that the two engi.
their great invention and which almost
Immediately resulted in establishing
wireless telephone connections with
Stockholm and Berlin. On June / the
two inventors cOnversed with the gen.
eral director of the Stockholm Tele.
graph company and the results oh.
tanned from this experiment were re.
markable. 1t established the fact that
by means of the Egner-Holmstrom sys.
tenn it is possible to telephone a dis
lance of 1000 kilometers, whereas it
is possible under the old method 10
telephone only half of that distance.
1t is further established that iron
wires can be used instead of copper
and that they prove equally as goou
transmitters. This means a great say.
ing in the expenditure of conductors.
The invention has aroused the inter
est OF inventors all over Europe and
Messrs. Holmstrom and Egner have
received invitations to go to a mum.
Der of European capitals and explain
their wonderful invention.
About $50 men employed in the
stockholm cellulose factories are at
present on a strike. They have been
holding one meeting after another, but
are unable to come to any kind of al:
agreement with their employers. The
strike has lasted about five weeks and
there is no sign of any cessation in
hostilities. Indeed this year has been
a bad one for strikes in many indus
tries and one has reason to call Swe.
den strike ridden country at present.
The carpenters strike has been partial.
~ settled, but there are indications
that it will break out anew
Five first class so-called "Bo1e
coaches" have been delivered to the
Swedish state railways by the Swedish
State Railway Manufacturing Supplies
company. The new coaches are
modern in every respect and are beau
tifully furnished. They are also made
so that they can be used on foreign
railways, so that it one of the afor,..
mentioned coaches are chartered at
stockholm one can travel direct from
the Swedish capital to Paris without
changing cars.
Cutting the nose off ones sweet.
heart is certainly a horrible way of
manifesting ones affections, but that
seems to have been the method adopt
ed by Axel Huffman. She was found
in her bed the other day in a sense
less condition in one of the shopping
districts of Stockholm Her nose had
been cut off and she had besides been
cut about her face and arms. Her
sweetheart, Axel Hultmann has con.
fessed to the crime
There is now every indication that
the Olympic games will be held in
Stockholm in 1912. Berlin does not
seem to be bidding very actively for it
and it is believed that she will WELD
to the Stockholmians At any rate
the Swedish committee has in the
event that the games will be held
there, invited the participants in the
games to reside in Sweden during the
period Of training. should they desire
to do so.
The christening of the little Sma-
land duke was solemnized at the ROYAL
Palace June in the presence of a
large number of distinguished men
and women. Bishop Billing was thu.
officiating clergyman. The ceremon-
les were simple but impressive.
The British admiralty has decided to
test Captain Unge's torpedo apparatus
for carrying lines from one ship to an.
other. The experiments will be con.
Quoted by Captain Unge himself on
board the British warship excel
lence."
Down in Malmo the other day there
was another labor demonstration.
About 1000 laboring men gathered in
>he streets and formed a procession.
carrying a banner with the inscrip.
ton: Give us bread or work.
The value of Sweden's forests are
at present estimated at not less than
100,000,OO0 crowns. The government
owns about 100000 crowns worth OF
this timber
King Gustaf celebrated his fifty.