Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
OF INTEREST TO
SCANDINAVIA
Recent Happenings in This
Country and Abroad.

Country and Abroad,
new TRANSATLANTIC LINE
Direct Route Between Norway and
Sweden and the United States and
Mexico-Death Of Herman Bang Re-
moves Denmark's Greatest Novelist.
Women Teachers Of Norway Organize
independent Association.
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At a meeting in ~Gothenburg a few
days ago the so called Swedish-Amer-
fka-Mexico steamship line was orga-
nized. The leading men in this new
company are Consul M. Bryde Of
Christiania, who is chief of the Nor
way-Mexico Steamship company, and
Brorstrom, Waller & Sandstrom, who
are at the head of the Swedish line.
The minimum capital stock will be
1000, 600 own and the maximum
stock 10000 crowns About 1,400,-
900 crowns have already been sub
scribed and 1t can easily be raised to
1000, 900 crowns If necessary. The
board of directors chosen for the new
company consist of H. Mannheimer,
president; Dan Brostrom, secretary
and executive director, and Axel Car
lander, Consul Ekman and Justus Wal
Ter. The merging of the Swedish and
Norwegian interests in this company
will meal that there will be direct and
regular communication between Swe-
den, Norway, the United States and
Mexico. The organization Of this
company will fill a long felt want so
far az Swedish and Norwegian expor-
ters are concerned and they are espe-
cially gratified to know that they are
going to have direct traffic with the
United States, which is a popular mar
ket for Scandinavian commodities.
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Swedish sporting goods such as
will be used in the hammer, shot,
javelin and discus throwing contests
In the Olympic games at Stockholm
next summer have arrived In New
York. They will be inspected by the
American Olympic committee next
week and unless some fault is found
the samples will be reproduced and
distributed all over the country for
trials. The javelin Is of wood, with
q sharp iron point. 1t is 1.6 pounds in
weight and s.5 feet in length. No
throws are counted unless the point
OF the javelin strikes the ground be.
fore any part Of the shaft. The discus
American, but Is said to fit the hand
better. The hammer consists OF a
massive leaden head, with a four foot
shaft of steel wire, and weighs 1873
pounds. The Swedish shot is exclu.
sively of iron, not of lead, and Is an
ounce short of sixteen pounds, the
regulation weight in the United States.
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Edmund Gosse, the famous English
critic, has an enthusiastic article in
the Pail Mall Gazette regarding Au-
gust Strindberg, whom he charac-
terizes as the most interesting per-
eonality in all Europe. Strindberg,
says Mr.. Gosse, has written things
that form the most beautiful and the
most noble that have been written in
recent days and has besides been the
author of books whose contents are
such that they can hardly be classsd
as even civilized and which are SO bit
ter In spirit that they border on the
ludicrous. Mr.. Gosse maintains that
~Strindberg has many characteristics
In common with Nietzsche and Ros-
seau. In spite of all his faults, how.
ever, the English critic regards Strind.
berg as the peer of all modern authors.
Selma Lagerlof's books continue to
attract great attention all over the
country. Her latest book, "Liljekro-
mas Home" Is especially in great de-
manu- anu HdIuIy Hdu the HTSJ eQ1tlOD
been run off the presses than it was
sold out and other editions are now
selling at a remarkable rate. The
book has been published in not less
than nine languages and we predict
that the time will soon come when
Selma Lagerlof's works will be as
popular in the United States as they
are In Germany. In the latter u
try Miss Lagerlof's novels have proven
very popular and thousands of copies
have been sold there.
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The mother of Princess Bernadotte
died at her home In Stockholm the
other day. aged ninety-one years. She
was Henrietta Munck af Fulkila and
belongs to one Of the oldest families
OF the nobility Of Sweden. She was
the mother Of the present Princess
Bernadotte, who Is the only women
not of royal blood to marry a Swedish
prince. Henrietta Munck was horn IN