The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-09-05
SWEDEN.

Six of1cers Of the Swedish army
have again gone to Persia as instruc-
tors for the Persian gendarmeie.
Luteflsk' will be an expensive food
In Sweden for the next few months
because the dried fish from which it
is prepared commands a wholesale
price of almost 10 cents a pound.
The Lindholmen estate, not far from
Stockholm, has changed owners, the
consideration being almost 100000. It
Is the birth place of King Gustaf Vasa.
The area of the land is 3,40O acres.
"A farmer at P%erstorp, South Asbo
commune, used an incubator with
great success last spring. The full
capacity of it was 200 eggs and from
two hatchings he got 1884 chicks, which
was SO per cent of the eggs.
A new school house for primary
work was needed at Same, and a lady
teacher went to work and had a school
house built at her own expense. Our
authority did not take the trouble to
mention the name of this good woman.
The permanent secretary of the
Swedish academy has been too power
full in that institution, enabling him to
put his personal stamp on the work
done. Now it is proposed to reduce
the term of Office of the secretary to
a few years, or even only n year.
King George of England was made
to pose as the king of Sweden for a
few hours this summer. A gentleman
who mailed a letter in N%orrkoping put
an English one-penny stamp on it. This
shows a picture of King George. But
it looks SO much like the Swedish ten
ore stamp that nc n noticed the
difference at the postof1ce, and the
date was stamped on it. At Stockholm
the place Of destination, the mistake
was again overlooked, and the letter
was stamped. 1t is stated that this
stamp 10Y has a very great CONNER
cial value as a unique postage stamp.
Miss Kerstin Strandberg, who keeps
q hoel in Hernosand, has publicly Of
fered to donate 1910 towards building
q naval station at Hernosand. In her
offer, which appears in the %conserva-
tive press, she argues at some length
that such a station is of imperative
necessity. She also makes a dig for
the n in which many Swedes
squander their money while they main
tain that Sweden is too poor to spend
any more money than she does on her
defences. Part of Miss S~trandberg's
reflections stand a literal translation:
Suppose that we, for a change, let
the Chinese tend to their own mission
airy work-for Jao and C~onfusianism
may be as wholesome for them as
Christ and Christianity for us-and
also let the French, the Germans, and
the English, who have divided up
Africa among themselves, preach the
gospel to the negroes, while we, on
tho other hand, go to work with our
own heather and keep our millions at
home, and also keep the millions that
are spent on foreign lotteries. Now
that we can afford to throw SO much
money out of the country it will not
do to claim that the Swedish people
are too poor to build q naval station
on the coast of Norrland."
The rush Of foreigners to the Olym-
pic games was not what had been ex-
pected. 1t is now claimed that the
managers Of many hotels in Berlin
and Copenhagen dissuaded many tour
lists from going to Stockholm on the
ground that the hotel charges would
be exorbitant during the games. Nor
wegian agents are said to have been
doing the same kind Of work in Cote
borg.
The genealogical society has decided
to waive the usual fruit expeditions
this year. The. reason given for this
step IL, that the apple crop 10 a com
plste failure.