The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-18
SWEDEN.

drcd Thousand dollars.
SWEDEN.
Forty-three civil marriages we're
solemnized in a single day in Stock
holm. = d
Ten per cent more packages were
handled at the post office in Stock
holm last Christmas than the year be-
fore.
Queen Victoria vas to leave for the
South January 2, accompanied by
Countess Wachtnleister and Baron de
Geer.
The Stufverum furniture factory at
Mjolby was destroyed by fire, whereby
over one hundred persons were thrown
out OF work.
The Svea steamship company of
Stockholm is going to run a new line
Of steamers between Kalmar, Sweden,
and Riga, Russia.
A sample of penmanship $50 years
old has been found at the school IL
brary in Vasteras. 1t is a copy book
written by a boy.
lieutenant P. Nystrom of the Upp-
land regiment has gone to Turkey to
Join the army of that country so that
he may see actual war.
"A lady at Mohed is 80 years old,
but She Is still earning part of her
living by peddling confectionery,
which she carries in a little cart.
The Albert BONNER publishing COM
pany i'll Stockholm has started a new
branch In Leipzig for the publication
Of German TRANSACTIONS of Swedish
literature.
At Osteras, Rasbo parish, a woman
lost her gold ring while making hay.
After a while the horse was noticed
to chew his fodder poorly, and an in.
vestigation found that the ring was
pressed around Il of his teeth.
Gustaf Bornstrom, a young man at
Grangesberg, was treating an iii
growing nail himself. But it grew
worse, and when he finally consulted
\ doctor. blood poisoning had set in
and his life could not be saved.
The Stockholm poultry union voted
2. scholarship to some young person
who wishes to take a course ut the
Boxholin poultry. school. The Offer
was diligently advertised in the press
but so far no one has applied for the
gift.
Over 1900 packages arrived from
America at the Malmo post Office q
few days before Christmas. Most OF
them contained Christmas presents
1t took the custonl-house officials sc
long to dispose OF the goods that the
delivery was delayed for several days
The Nobel institution in Stockholm
Is to be a massive building of castle
like appearance, but reminding thu
behUlder also of a cathedral, decided,
original in its lines. The building will
occupy a conspicuous position on Dur
gardsvagen, and also will have
facade on S~trandvagen. 1t easily viii
be the most striking structure in tn
Swedish capital. 1t will rise from
series OF terraces and will be COZ
oil III hSN LIN WILL WILL 6lt
the building the appearance of a moul
tain. cliff covered with glistenin
bronze moss The building will ful
nish quarters for tho Noble instltutio
and the chief room will be the festiv;
hall in which the annual Nobel prize
will be awarded.
When the house Of Enock Aberg,
farmer at Brastorp, Blekinge, was d,
stroyed by fire his live-year-old 10
Gunnar performed a deed OF vale
which a grown man might be prou
of. There were four children in tn
house, Gunnar being the Oldest an
m eight-months-old Mimi the youn
est. When the flames gained sue
Roadway that the boy gave up his a
tempt to put it out, he took two of tt
children and carried them out. VIII
other people arrived it was realize
that Mimmi remained in the cradle
the burning building. The mother W;
crazed with anxiety, and she was Ike
from running into the flames only
main force. Meanwhile Gunnar We
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baby was lying, and he brought h
out safe, the flames actually lickil
them as he came out. in a few mi
utes what remained of the house II
down into a heap. ~. v. e
A monument Of Christoffer Polhe
the, great canal builder, was unveil
the other day, at TrollhaItan. II
monument Is a huge granite block s
teen feetahigh. Its site is close to t
famous "Polhem lock" at the Trc
haitian waterfalls. A.bronze picture
the face Of Herr Polhem is inserted
the monument. The monument "
cut out Of the rock ut the place whG
new lock is being built at AkcrsbeI
Business is dull in the buildi
trades in Stockholm. and many men
that particular branch are idle. Il
unemployed . 1 the city have Jlst
EanJisssssa3 q Vnion Of their pwu.