The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-02-15
SWEDEN.

Prince Eugen is going to paint the
interior decorations of the new church
in Kiruna.
A magnificent edition of the COM
plete works of August Strindberg has
Just appeared.
Roslagen is teeming with Russian
saw %filers," all of whom carry copies
Of the maps of the general staff.
The conservative press has raised a
great howl because Standardization,
the organ of the Socialists, obtains
news from the government before the
other papers do.
At Nasty, Lower Kalix, Norrland,
the parents refuse to send their chill
dren to school because the board of
education has hired a teacher who
is said to be suffering from tuber-
culosis.
The hoof and mouth disease which
has prevailed in certain parts of Skane
has cost the national government $685.
900. Most of this amount was paid in
damages to farmers whose cattle had
to be killed to check the pest.
The fire department of Stockholm
will have it's first automobile next sum-
mer. The machine is to weigh five
tons, and its pump is to have a capac-
ity of 500 gallons a minute. The cost
Of the apparatus is put at $500.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
makes the following comment on the
distribution of the Nobel prizes: For
the eleventh consecutive year the dis
tribution of this great trust, for the
f~urtherance Of the arts of peace and
the caues of disarmament, has been
made without interruption out of the
proceeds of a fortune which owed it's
origin to the invention and manu-
facture of high explosives. DR.. Nobel
rightly believed that his discoveries
were to prove one of the great bless
ings of mankind, but he was bitterly
disappointed to find that important as
were their use in the industrial arts,
they found their chief employment in
war and in the destruction instead of
the preservation of human life. The
provision, therefore, of a %princely en-
dowment to be given to those who
contribute most materially to the bene-
fit of mankind has been in the nature
Of an expiation. The disinterested
manner in which the awards have
been made and in which the express
admonition of the founder that ques.
lions Of nationality has been observed
Is shown by the distribution of the
prizes among the nations. Sweden
has won but four and Norway only
one, while the others have gone 16
times to Germans, II to Frenchmen
(and women, for Nine. Curie's re-
searches have now twice been honored
by the Nobel price, seven to British
subjects, five times the prizes have
gone to Holland, four times to Russia,
Italy and Switzerland, and twice each
to Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Spain
and the United States. That America
has not figured more conspicuously in
this roll of honor is to be regretted, but
it would be difficult to indicate
Americans more worthy than those
upon whom these honors have fallen"
The minister of justice has announc-
cd that the government is contemplat-
ing a revision of the new election laws
providing for proportional representa-
ton in the riskdag. The changes will
bs 10 comprehensive, however. that
the bill is not expected to be COM
pleted for presentation to the riksdag
during it's present session.
According to a dire the new
cabinet is contemplating the stopping
of the sale of liquor on board the YES
sells Of the Swedish navy. If such a
measure is enforced it will include the
whole service from the higlc.. CT
dcers to the plainest stoker.