The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-07-08
IN FAR N0RTHLAND
important Events in Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
Interesting Items From the Three
Great Kingdoms Of the North, se-
Iected for scandinavIans and
Their Descendants.
BY MARTIN W. oDLANo.
Denmark.


BY MARTIN w. oDLAND.
Denmark.
The income of the national rail-
ways of Denmark during the fiscal
year 1915-1916 amounted to 7O,36S,O 900
crowns and the disbursements were
$500, 900 crowns. In the preceding
fiscal year the gross income of the
roads was 6O,30S,S crowns and the
expenditures 43,33S, ITO crowns. Thus,
while the total volume of business
transacted by the national railways Of
Denmark was greater the past fiscal
year. the profits of the lines were
greater the preceding year.
Arrangements have been made by
the Danish government with Austria
for the importation Of 5000 Polish la
borers for work on farms In Denmark
during the summer. The men will
come from Austrian Poland and the
occupied parts of Russian Poland. In
past years large numbers Of Polish
farm laborers focked to Denmark ey-
cry summer.
The campaign to raise money for
the purchase of a military aeroplane
by private collections Is proving sue
cess and enough money has been re-
ceived to insure the construction OF
Acceptance No. 2.
The prisons of Copenhagen are over
crowded and the police have been
obliged to lodge number of prison
ers in jails or prisons In other cities,
L. p. Christensen of Suldrup, has a
genuine Stradivarius violin, for which
he has been offered 1900 crowns, hut
which he declines to part with.
Norway.
According to Christiania corre-
spondent, the milkmen of Norway
proved stronger than the government
recently when an attempt was made
in storthing to secure authorization
for the cabinet to move the clocks
Of the country ahead one hour during
the summer months, in conformity
with the system which has just been
adopted in Denmark and Sweden. The
milkmen asserted that their work
schedule would be seriously interfered
with by the new arrangement. A
speaker in the parliament declared
that the dairymen MIXED their cows
by the sun and not by the clock, and
that clock-craft and clOck-meddling
are contrary to the nature Of the cow.
Whether this argument was accepted
or not, the fact remains that when
the proposition was put to q vote In
the Odelsthing every representative
from the country voted against 1t. As
result of the difference In time be-
tween Norway and Sweden, the lat
ter country advancing its clocks one
hour, there has resulted an annoying
disturbance In the train connections
between the two countries. Trains
coming from Sweden are held at the
border one hour, In order that they
may run according to schedule on the
Norwegian railroads, and trains from
Norway to Sweden are treated as de-
layed trains In the latter country. The
mail service between the two coun-
tries is also effected In an annoying
manner by the conflicting time sched-
ule.
A dispatch from Christiania says
that 1.-The Invasion Of the United
States" motion picture film, has
been prohibited in Norwegian thenters
by order of the Norwegian depart
ment of foreign affairs. The film
showed scenes from an imaginary war,
in which New York was bombarded
from land, sea, and sky by the forces
Of country named "Ruritania." AL
hough the censors had cut out every
feature that might be thought objec-
tionable, the authorities In the office
of foreign affairs decreed that the film
should not be shown. 1t is limited
that the action was taken to insure
against any tendency to construe the
film as an unneutral demonstration.
There Is lack Of houses In Chris
tiaDin, as in the othG' large cities Of
the scandinavian north. and the city
government has recommended that g.
0OO. 600 crowns be spent In the cree
ton of municipal tenements, which
will be capable of housing 1900 per-
soma A
Khstofer Janson. the noted Norwe-
gian preacher and author, who spent
mary years In America as Unitarian
minister, recently celebrated his sew
enty-fifth birthday anniversary. He Is
still In excellent health, but has
ceased his literary activities.
The people of Norway are prosper
GUS, In spite Of the war, judging by
the bank deposits. On March 81, 1916,
the. total deposits In 40 private banks
n nounted m 4 Ooz O0O OO0 crovvna IN