Morris tribune., 1911-01-06
TIDINGS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
Interesting News From Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
KN|GHTED BY KING GUSTAV

o"CuiSn HuieT r7onoFS NINE HeSloentS
of Various Sections of United States.
Novel Proposal Made by Bishop Brun
to the Norwegian storthing-Den.
mark Entertans the Youthful Crown
Prince Olaf of Norway.
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Announcement comes from Chicago,
ILL.,, that nine persons in different parts
Of the United States have been select
ed for knighthood by King Gustaf of
Sweden for their services and activity
n Swedish religious and charitable
movements. The honor of the Royal
Order of the North Star was conferred
on Rev. M. G. Ranseen of Chicago,
Professor j. A. Udden of Rock Island,
Rev. Fritz Jacobsen of Brooklyn, N
Y, Rev. c. M. .Esbjorn of New Haven,
Conn, and Rev. G. A. Brandelle of
Denver, Colo. Rev. Eric Norelius of
Vasa, Mimi, and Rev. I. c. Abraham
son of Rock Island, ILL.,, have been
made Commanders of the North Star.
The degree of Commander of the Roy
al Order of Vasa has been conferred
on Rev. G. A. Andreen and F. G. Kenk-
man of the same city. The honors
were conferred on the recommendation
of Bishop Won Scheele, envoy of the
Swedish king, who visited the United
States last summer. Rev. Mr.. More
Illus has been advanced from knight of
the Order of the North Star to one of
the highest honors distributed by the
Swedish throne. Rev. Mr.. Norelius is
the patriarch of the Augustana synod
He was present at it's founding in Clin-
ton, Wis, in 1860 and is the only sur
viving minister who participated in the
organization of the synod. He has
held every Office and for the last twen-
ty years has been president of the
synod. He was decorated by King Os-
car in 1902 as Knight of the Order of
the North Star in recognition of his
services and work in behalf of the in
tellectual development of Swedish
Americans. The recent honor is for his
further endeavors in this line. He is
the author of an extensive library on
the Augustana synod of the Swedish
Lutheran church.
A new instrument for measuring
nocturnal terrestrial radiation, invent
ed by the late Knut Angstrom of Stock
holm, is described by his son, A. K.
Jr., in Annalen der Physik,
under the name of "condensation-acti-
nometer." Excepting an external CYL
inder of metal, the instrument is made
of glass. 1t consists of res
ervoir, exhausted of air, and contain
ing ether, into which projects a glass
chamber, open above to the air, and
coated with lampblack. The blackened
surface radiates heat more rapidly
than the rest of the apparatus, and
tends to lower the temperature within
the reservoir: this cooling is, however,
by the condensation of
ether, which distills over a graduated,
glass tube. The total amount of radia-::
ton from the black surface during a
given interval is proportional to the
of ether condensed! It's value
in thermal units may be obtained by
the use of a constant, determined by
the instrument with other
forms of actinometer.
Professor Bendixson has been chosen
as rector of the Stockholm high
school to succeed Professor de Geer,
who has held the position during the
past eight years. Professor Bendix-
son comes very highly recommended
and is considered one of the most ad-
vanced educators amt ng the younger
Set OF men in the country.
The L. M. Ericsson Telephone COM
pany of Stockholm received an order
for 1000 telephone apparatuses, repre-
senting value of not less than $685.
900 crowns. The order came from
Sydney, Australia. In the latter coun-
try the Swedish telephone is in gen.
eral use.
"Old Peoples day." when all ex-
penditures had been taken care of,
netted $4,000 crowns. Of this sum
$1,000 crowns go to the poor in the
various churches and the rest goes to
the society known as "Pauvres Hon
teaux."
There are an unusual large number
Of idle persons in the Swedish capital
at this season of the year. During the
month of November there were over
l5O applicants for fifty places
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