Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-07-12
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENlNGs IN FAR OFF
NoRTHLAND.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume of the Most Important Events
in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest to the seandinavians
In America.
DENMARK.

In German commercial circles con-
siderable indignation and anxiety is
felt at what is looked upon here as an
attempt of an American syndicate TO
establish kind of American Leipslc
fair in Copenhagen. Copenhagen cor
respondents of Berlin papers report
THAI syndicate of American business
men has entered into negotiations
with the Danish government for the
purchase of large tract of real
estate in the heart of the Danish
capital, formerly occupied by the Dan
ish State railroads. On this property
IL is said to be the intention of the
American syndicate TO erect enormous
depots and show buildings for the ex-
hibition and sale of all kinds of Amer
lean goods to the Scandinavian cOun-
tries and Russia. German manufac-
turers formerly dominated these mar
kets. The plan is said TO provide for
the building of several hotels for the
accommodation of the buyers. who are
expected to arrive by the thousands
from Russia and even from Japan. 1t
is also said that the American pro-
motors of the enterprise, who have the
backing of some of the foremost finan-
ciers of America, have approached the
Danish government with q view to
having the entire tract made into a
kind OF free port where American
goods may be exhibited in bond, that
is to say, without the payment of the
Danish customs duties.
Copenhagen, always the liveliest of
Scandinavian capitals, is planning new
hotels, theaters, picture shows, bank
buildings and "Tivoli" entertainments.
The building industry, a sure index
of prosperity and of the money mar
ket. is busy, the reason being that
"gOulash barons" and others who are
making money indirectly from the
war are building villas among the
beeches of Sjalland and Upland. The
UPLAND farmers who sell 70 Germany
at three marks a pound butter which
they formerly sold at a quarter of the
price, are turning into country gen.
tlemen. They demolish their pictur-
esque timbered guards" where their
families have lived for generations.
and run up model brick dwellings with
the latest labor-saving appliances.
Just now they are making contracts,
to be executed after the war, for the de-
livery of the best English prize stock
in cattle and horses.
Just Larsen, a farmer at Fovslet,
gave his horses a bath in a solution
of arsenic TO get rid of the vermin
which had troubled them. The solu-
ton was not extra strong, but the
horses died. Afterward this result
was explained on the ground that the
horses were sweaty at the time, so
that the sweat pores were open, per-
uniting the poison to pass into their
bodies.
A Copenhagen business man had Of
fered to subscribe $4,000 to a fund
for the erection of monument of
Soren Kierkegaard, the noted Danish
philosopher. The offer has been made
TO Professor Hoffling, who is expected
to bring the matter before the public.
The Molktenborg estate in the is
land of Fyn is to be divided up into
about thirty Independent farms.
Many of the farms are to be owned
by relatives of Count Moltke-Buitfeldt,
the proprietor.