The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-15
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during the soIoinultIes VI tne AenteL
season.
The. staple ofithe mysration-and
this seems to strike a. fatal blow tc
theory that oleaginous food is neces'
sary in cold climates and, to furnish
4 strong argument for the vegetarians
lis a black bread, made Of equal
parts, ofrye and barley, which is al
lowed to become partly sour before
baking. A loaf of this, weighing
nine pounds and costing three cents
per pound, lasts them three days. Be
sides this they have cabbage for soup
perhaps once = week. and, cavasse, q
'sose oEfia1aiasn snted' beer, which smells
Ike "emptyings." They probably
don't eat meat more than two Or three
times a year. This explains how
Russia il. able to keep pR1 10 Large q
standing army At comparatively
Small expense. ~
e.. The laboring class eat very little in
the morning, but have two hours
incoming, when they gorge themselves
with black bread. The mJecks, OF
lowest class, are very ignorant, and
though very poor have to pay most OF
the taxes. Pedestrians have literally
no rights which drivers are bound to
respect; and if a person gets run
over, if he is not killed, he is liable to
be arrested for being in the way.
The regard Of the Russians for
America seems to arise, as much as
anything, from the fact that we can
never antagonize them. Being situ-
ated 30 far from us, with vast tracts
Of soil as fertile as Illinois, minerals
Astounding in every part Of the EN-:
pire, and inexhaustible coal-felds and
oil-wells, there is not much danger Of
our coming into rivalry with this vast
empire, so that our friendship is like.
y to be permanent.
St. Petersburg is a very good place
in winter-for those who have the
sntree to all that is going on socially,
but to one who has not it is. pretty
dull. Thore are no lectures, concerts;
or anything of the kind no halls to
hold them if they wished to. There
are q few literary societies in which
the discussions are very limited,
There is no public opinion, and the
papers do not discuss the public af.
fairs of Russia, though they-may the
war in Ashantee or Arkansas. There
are no schools or churches, such as
we know them, and there is nothing
gregarious about their religion leading
to pleasant social intercourse, as with
US. There is no middle class every
body either lives like prince, or
works like a slave. The priests are
not leaders, and though not con
demned to celibacy, like the Romish
priesthood, they can only marry once.
The people kept Lent very strictly,
rarely dancing; but instead, at pri-
vate parties they have little roulette
tables at which you can do little
gambling with the lady of the house.
On the whole, although he enjoyed
life at St. Petersburg during the year
he was there very much, he thought
it was the best city to leave he knew
Of, and he was glad when he set foot
on American soil once more. And
finally, as the result of pretty extern
sive observation, he was prepared to
assert-and he thought Mr.. Bancroft
and others present would bear him
out in it-that there is a higher stand
ard Of morality, more church-going,
less drunkenness, gambling and Ii
centiousness in Washington than in
any other capital Of its size in the
world.
A REBEL GENERAL COMING TO LIVE
WITH Us.
1t is stated that Gep. John B.
Hood, of Nashville, Tenn, one of the
distinguished Generals on the Confed-
crate side during the late difficulty"