Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-25
OF INTEREST TO
SCANDINAVIAN
Recent Happenings in This
Country and Abroad.
BOOKS WIDELY TRANSLATED

WorId-Bergen Takes Large Amount
of Stock in American Steamship
company-Denmark Artists Will Not
Exhibit at English Exposition.
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There is no author of recent times
whose literary products have proven
80 universally popular as those OF Sci
ma Lagerlof and her name is on every
ones lips in Sweden and is becoming
known all over the civilized world.
The new novel by Miss Lagerlof, an
%nounced for publication early last fall
in an edition of 10000 copies, enjoys
the distinction of being completely
sold out before a single, copy was oil
the press. The name of the story is
"Liplecrona's Home" and it Is a story
of Swedish life through and through.
August BONNER, the publisher, has an
nounced another edition yer before
the first is ready for delivery. Selma
Lagerlof is more widely read at pres
ent than any other Swedish author,
Strindberg included, and her books
have been widely translated. She was
awarded the Nobel prize in literature
last year and no one will deny that
she did not justly deserve this honor,
which was perhaps after all the great
est recognition that her countrymen
had in their power to give her. Her
books have been translated into not
less than sixteen different languages.
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Doctor NordenskjoH, a Swedish
Antarctic explorer, in a recent de-
scription of the climate of the South
polar regions, declares that the Ant
arctic summer is beyond comparison
the coolest in the world. At the sta
ton of the Swedish Antarctic expedi-
ton, latitude 64-22 south, the mean
temperature for the three summer
months was 20 Fahrenheit, or almost
rs cold as Stockholm in winter. Ant
arctic winters, however, are not so
cold as in Northern Continental re-
gions, such as Siberia, although the
temperature Is at least as low as that
of most Arctic islands and stretches
on the coast at the same distance
from the North pole. The mean aver
age temperature of the Antarctic re-
gions is presumably the lowest in the
world.
The German city of Erfurt has, &C
eording to recent reports, a most in
teresting and highly valuable collec-
lion of Swedish coins in its possession.
The coins date back to Swedish
times" in Germany and naturally are
of great historic value. These coins,
which are In the possession Of a jew
eler in Erfurt, show scenes from the
Thirty Years war. On one side of a
number of them is shown the face of
King Gustavus Adolphus, and others
again show the king as he fell on the
battlefield Of Lutzen. 1t is believed
that these coins were placed in circu-
lation in Erfurt during the time that
Axel Oxienstierna was rector of the
University of Erfurt.
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Prominent Stockholm ONE rave a
dinner In honor of Nine. Curie, the dis
tinguished French scientist. The din
ner was given OF Skansen and was
attended by a large number of dis
tinguished women of Stockholm. DR..
Karolina Widerstrom and DR.. Ram
Btedt, the latter a pupil of Nine.
Curie's. delivered brief addresses in
honor of the distinguished guest, who
In a neat response thanked the Stock
holm women for the kindly interest
taken In her during her pleasant visit
In Stockholm. when she was for a Sec
ond time recipient OF a Nobel prize.
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Kaiser William of Germany has Of
ncially sanctioned the participation Of
the German artillery In the riding con-
tests to be held in connection with the
Olympian games In Stockholm next
summer. The kaiser has also shown
his interest by giving q prize to be
awarded In the military distance rid
Ing contest.
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About eighty foreign journalists and
newspaper correspondents are expect
I'd to be present at the Olympiam
games at Stockholm next summer. All
The foreign newspaper correspondents
will be granted free fare on all the
railways Of Sweden.
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The king u interested In lawn ten
MS. He sent . beautiful silver cup to
The tennis club at Nice, where last
year one could and his majesty en-
5oying . game OF tennis before break
fast almost every morning.
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King 0ustaf and Queen Victoria had
planned to spend the recent holidays
~ Dronningholm. but owing to the In
clemency OF the weather they re-
turned to the capital Dec. Is.
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Among members Of the French
Academy Of Science there IL reported
% be much Dissatisfaction because OF
the fact that Maetsrlinck received the