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THE RUSSIAN MISSION.
Declined by Both Burnside and Van

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Dec. 31.--There is no doubt
that the mission to Russia was offered to Gen.
Burnside, and by him declined 1t was then
offered to Gov. Van Zandt, who was disposed to
accept, but at last was constrained by circum-
stances to decline, and sent his decIinatiOn yes
terday The Journal says OF the matter:s"It It
is no secret that the administration has honored
guished citizens, by the offer of the Russian
mission, first to Gen. Burnside, who declined it,
and next to Gov. Van Zandt, who took it into
reflection upon the matter, and largely from an
unw1lllngness to expose Mrs. Van Zandt to the
r1gor OF the climate, felt compelled also to de-
cllne IL. we are sure that this high compliment
1t was Immediately rendered, but by their con-
StituentS'
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Mrs. Or. Wells, Of the navy yard, and Miss
Bessie Lewis.
Mrs. j. ormond Wilson, her daughter and Mis-
Minnie ROhrer; 1439 Mass. ave.
Mrs. c. s. Wheeler, her daughter Rosa, Miss
Stone and Miss Downing, 2s Grant Place.
Mrs. Wilcox and daughter, assisted by Miss
Mrs. Alfred Wood, Miss Clara Bancroft OF Bos
ton. Miss Louise Goff of New York. and Miss
BERTHE Harvey and sister, 1884 st.
Misses S. and B. Woodward, Mrs. r. $. Bos
Misses Wright and Miss Palmer; 5o7 F st.n.w.
from to O'Clock
Mrs. II. H. Wells, assisted by her daughter
Mrs. Walker; 901 NJ St NV.
Mrs. Clifford Warden with Mrs. Judge War.
den; 1442 st. NV.
Mrs. Judge X. B. Warden, assisted by Mrs. E.
and Mrs. Clifford Warden; 1449 S st. NV.
Mrs. James X. Young, with Mrs. Frank A.
Richardson's; 1903 Vermont ave.
Georgetown.
The Misses Buckley, of Georgetown Heights
and the Misses Fracker, and the Misses Buckley,
OF Washington.
Mrs. NJ. Thomas, assisted by Miss E. Taylor;
Il Market st.
The Misses Forrest; IS 1st st:
Miss Payne and Miss Ada Miller; 90 Dunbar
ton st.
Miss Lizzie Jewell and Miss Lydia Belknapp,
Of New York; 122 Gay st.
DR.. and Mrs. KleinSchmidt, Misses Mary E.
McKenny and Ella Hurdle; Congress st.
Mrs. Buchanan, Miss Roberdeau, Mrs. Moore
and Miss Trimble; 3 Stoddard st.
Mrs. s: B. Mitchell and daughter; l5l West st.
Mrs. M. c. ShuSter, Miss Ward and Mrs j. L..
Elliott; 80 West ST., Georgetown.
Miss Montgomery, assisted by Miss Mamie
Thomas; III West ST., Georgetown.
Not Receiving.
Mrs. HOratio King T07 II st.
Mrs. j. w. and Miss Parker.
Mrs. Paul and Miss Gray, Is Grant Place.
Senator Slater, Of Oregon.
Owing to the recent illness of Mrs. John
DinI.sJ until mot two
Mrs. Chief Justice Drake, Pill Gst. NV.
Mrs. Samuel Norment 1913 NJ st. NV.
Mrs. Amos w. Hart, 109 ST. NV: in conse-
quence Of illness.
Mrs. Edward Hayes, 187 st. NV, on account
OF sickness.
Mrs. J. P. Chapman and daughter, Miss Kit
tie, 1900 10th st. NV.
The Misses Dickson, South Washington.
Miss Annie j. Baldwin, 1887 4th St NV.
Mrs. o. c. Fox, 1859 Rhode Island ave-
Mrs. AlonZo Weeks, 619 n st. NV.
Mrs. Allison NailOr, jr., 100 n. Y. ave.
Mrs. and Miss Morgan, 705 East Capitol st.
Miss Bertha ChritZman, AS Mass. ave. NV.
Senator Window and family are spending a
few days with friends in Baltimore, and there
fore will not receive New Years day.
MIS- Lincoln, 6l2 st. S.e., on account of re-
cent illness.
Mrs and the Misses Higgins, 1917 st.
Mrs. A. j. Falls 951 Mass. ave.
Mrs Gen. Alvord, 1911 st.
Mrs Dr. Barrett and Miss Kinds, 1910 9th st.
Mrs. DR.. Reyburn, 2129 st.
Mrs Z. B. Hay, 1885 p ST.
Mrs DR.. j. R. B1gelow, on account OF recent
death in the family.
Miss Middleton, 214 New Jersey ave.
Mrs. Benjamin Swallow, 1903 @ st. NV.
Mrs. John A. Prescott, 7th st. road.
Mrs GowanS, NJ st.
capt. Isaac BaSSett, IS I'd st. ne.
Mis- C. d. Willard, Capitol Hill, on account OF
sickness.
The Misses Talburtts. 22s I'd st. ne.
Mrs. j. II. Ketcham, 1929 h st. NV.
Mrs. Assistant Postmaster General Tyner will
not receive.
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NEW YEAR DAY.
Who Will and Who Will Not Receive.

The following is the authentic list Of those
row, New Year day:
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
The President and Mrs. Hayes, and the Vice
President will hold reception at the Executive
Mansion on New Year day, according to the
following programme:
At II a. m.-The members of the Cabinet and
the Diplomatic Corps.
At 11:15a; m.-The Chief Justice and Associate
States.
At 1880 a. m.-Senators and Represen-
tatlves IN Congress, the judges Of the
Court Of Claims; the Commissioners of the Dis
trct OF Columbia, the judges OF the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia ex-members
OF the Cabinet, and eX-ministerS of the United
States.
AT 12 m.-The officers of the army and navy.
At 1890 p.m.-The secretary OF the Smith
sonian Institution, the Commissioner of Agri-
culture, the assistant secretaries Of the depart
mentS, the Assistant POStmaSterS General the
Solicitor General, the Assistant Attorneys Gen.
eral. the superintendent OF the Coast Survey,
and the heads of bureaus Of the several depart
mentS.
At 12:45 p.m-The associated soldiers of the
war of 1872 the associated veterans of the war
OF 1s46, the members of the Oldest Inhabitants
Association OF the District OF Columbia, and the
Grand Army of the Republic
At pm.-Reception of citizens, which will
terminate at ppm.
Carriages Will approach the Executive Man
sion by the eastern gate, and leave by the
western.
Mrs. Hayes will be assisted by Mrs. McKell
Miss Matthews, Miss Cook and Miss Martndale.
ARMY AND NAVY OFFICERS AT THE PRESIDENTS
RECEPTION.
Secretary Thompson has issued the follow
ing order: The officers Of the navy and marine
corps will assemble at the Navy department al
1880 O'Clock IN. on Thursday, January l. $780,
in full dress uniform for occasions of special
ceremony. to pay their respects to the President
OF the United States at ~ o'clock.
The following has been issued by General
sherman: Officers Of the army in this city will
assemble in full uniform at the Adjutant Gene
rails Office at II = o'clock on Thursday. January
|. 1850, to pay their respects TO the President Of
the United States.
CABINET MINISTER'S.
The following are the hours of reception on
New Year day by the members OF the Cabinet:
Secretary of State, 1891 X street. reception
frCm TO 3.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1928 street; re-
ception from to4.
Secretary of War, 1929 street; reception from
IL to 5.
Secretary OF the Navy. 1879 I street; to-.
The Postmaster General viii receive at the
Ebbitt House from to 4.
Secretary OF the Interior, 1I19 II street, recep-
tion from ~ tot.
Attorney General s26 18th street; reception
from IN <
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EPH. HOLLAND ATTACKED.
He LEAVES His Friend i'm the L u.,cI I,

CINCINNATI, Dec. 31.-Eph Holland, who was
arrested in New York last september for throw
fellow gambler named Arty Duffy, were at
tack yesterday at most freQuented corner OF
Vine street by party OF gamblers. Holland
about the head until the police interfered. No
serious injury was done, but it is thought the
matter will not end SOFAS the sporting men here
charge Holland and Duffy with ''squealing'
and being responsible for raids on gambling
houses offenses which they will not submit TO-
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THE MAINE QUESTION.
What Governor GarceIon Agrees

BOSTON. Dec. 31.-A special dispatch to the
Boston Herald, from Augusta, says, that the
governor agrees to submit certain of Mr.. Nor
rill's questions to the Judgment Of the supreme
court. The reason why all the questions will
not be submitted, is because there is such
mixture of fact and supposition that they
would not be proper papers to submit
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Curious Relics of Wilkes Booth.

When the delegation from Philadelphia was
here recently to ask for condemned cannon to
make statue of Gen. Meade, the party visited
Gen. Dunn, at his office, and saw the relics he
has there connected with the assassination of
Mr.. Lincoln. Miss McHenry told Gen. Dunn OF
one of interest she had, and yesterday Mr.. Cox,
who was also OF the party, presented this to the
Judge Advocate General. it having been sent
him by Miss McHenry with the following ex-
planatory letter:
ia S. 22D ST., PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16, 1879.
Nm. Nc. KeeDuan, Judge 4duOcate General.
Washington, d. c.:
Dear Sir:-Herewith send you relic which
may prove an acceptable addition to your col
lection, relative to the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln.
In August, 1864, Mr.. j. Wilkes Booth regis
tered as guest at the McHenry House, Meade
Vile, Pennsylvania He was there on the 18th
of that month. After his departure it was
found that he had, with diamond, inscribed
words.
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NEW JERSEY INDUsTRIEs.-Full reports have
Eeen received from fifty seven silk mills In the
state, nearly all in Paterson, The mills IN Pat
erso1 employ TO- 600 hands and about 1900 more
who Labor In their own homes. The production
OF the nftlls for the current year viii aggregate
S14 Geo. ,099,
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Montreal Thinks Charity Should
Begin at Home.

MONTREAL, Dec. 31.-The full text of letter
from the Irish Roman Catholic clergy, of this
city, to committee of the Irish societies In ref
erence to proposal to collect funds for the re-
lief OF the distressed people of Ireland, is pub
l1Shed, and points out that In Ireland itself,
be well and correctly known, no general move
ment has so far taken place to draw help from
more favored portions of the country. They
think, therefore, that the proposal to collect
uODS of Ireland, Is premature,
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S150.OOO for a v. M. C. A. Library.

$4,000 Tor a NJ M C A. Library.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3l.-The executors of the eS-
tate Of the late VIM. Niblo. of this city, will TO-
Association a bequest Of s1s0, 600 for the pur-
chase Of library. He left property to the
amount OF $500, ,0c0, one half OF which is thus de-
vised for public use The bequest fs perhaps
this purpose in the United States. and exceeds
the first sum devised by John Jacob Astor for
the library which bears his name.
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The Count JOannes Goes Ont with
the Old Year.

NEW YORK, Dec 31.-GeOrge, the Count joan
nes otherwise George Jones, actor and author,
and very eccentric and Weil known character
in the city, died yesterday afternoon in little
TOOL room u an obscure hotel & Of kidney @ complaint.
Fairbanks, who figured prominently with him
on the stage. He was 60 years of age. His
funeral viii take place from the Church OF the
TRANSPORTATION, better known as the Little
Church around the corner" tomorrow.
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hDe LllCOln,
Departed this
Life Aug. 18th, 1864,
By the effects OF


The glass remained in the window undisturbed
until the country was shocked by the murder OF
Gays after that event Mr.. r. M. N. Taylor, pro.
p.1etor Of the McHenry House, cut the pane
from the window, framed it over backing of
Mr. Booth, which Mr.. Taylor cut from the hotel
register, and sent the whole to me- Just as 1t
now is. 1 received it towards the end Of April,
1865, and have had 1t in my possession ever
since. believe the inscription is genuine, and
the history as above given Is true.
am respectfully yours, MARY MCHENRY.
1t Is believed that Booth must have known of
some attempt premeditated, II not actually
made, to poison Mr.. Lincoln August 13, 1854, and
supposed that it had been successful.
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The Markets.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 3l.-Virginia sixes consols,
81: do. second series 28A; do new ten -forties
36M. North CalOlina skies, old, % bid to-day.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 31.-TAere was no business
done at the Corn and Flour Exchange to-day. I'm
mediately after the first call, and just when
meagre portion Of the members had taken their
places in the ring, the doors opened and the 5th
Regiment Band marched in, and that precluded all
business operations. Speeches were made by many
prominent members cOngratulatory Of the present
general prosperity of business and all the national
songs were rendered. The time was thus spent
until the hour for closing, when procession num-
beriDg about 600 was formed and. headed by the
band, marched to and around the site selected for
the new building Of the Corn and Flour Exchange,
nearly opposite the Post Office. There was nothing
done ia any Of the markets.
BALTIMORE, Dec 31.-Cotton frm-mid ding
12H. Provisions quiet and unchanged Butter quiet
prime 70 choice western packed 2Sa2s roll, 2oa24.
unchanged: Coffee d1ll-RiS cargoea, l4a1613.
Freights quiet and unchanged.
Z. Exchange. long. 4soh; short zSs. Govern.
NEW YORK. Dec. sl.-Flour quiet Wheat quiet
Corn dull :
LONDON, Dec. 81, 1880 p. m.-U. s. bonds,
AZ per cents. 10ss21; new hves, 1861 Atlantic
and Great Western first mortgage trustees certifi-
Gates, SOY: do. second DO, 27T. Erie, z3sS. Ill
nois Central. l02 Reading, 362<.
Western first mortgage trus.ees' certificates, 500.
Eiie, 43K; do second consols, 80. Atlantic and
Great Western second mortgage trustees certif-
cater, 2iA.
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A Tammany Recorder Appointed In
New York.
NEW YORK, Dec 3l.-The board OF aldermen
to-day appointed Frederick Smythe, Tam
many democrat, to the Office OF recorder, in
place OF the late John x. Hackett. Mr.. Smythe
Will only hold the office until the election next
fall
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6l9 l8th st. N. w.

10 ThoDt Il may concern:
We, the undersigned citizens Of Philadelphia take
Pleasure in certifying that DIR. I. A. Won MOSCH-
ESR Err has been a resident of our city for some
Year,. during which he has acquired dstin
Er and Throat He has also, during some time past,
ttti Professor and CLINICAL Operator in one Of our
co,tial support OF the Press and the confidence Of
ascommunities he may see 6t to visit:
EWDAVIs, Speaker Of the House Of Reps. Pa.
John "; F0RSEY, ,g Edit9T Press; D,.,.
55SsI4s66S. 5@sKAys6S. Mercury; Her; HsF;H
Eon. W. MCCLURE,
EEsptRs FTsnlhs Hs;sBEsRa Bsn
FROM HoRATIo SEYMOUR ,o,.
II. Won Moschzisker brings me letters Of intro
Slelon from gsItlemen OF eharacter and stanaing a
tefment of diseases Of the Eye and Ear, and those
hs sa Sl S Of under
ny observation and experience think he can give
- 80 'A''' "'--o'- ' HoRGTTo SEYMOUR.
REsToRATIoN OF HEARING.
Prom the high endorsements with which DR.. Won
aadsH his eare for of pef
fes;, which gave great deal OF uneasiness His
sTh.ciahP Pf8Ssq of reat ss and judgment think It
sSis Just tribute to him TO make It known now to al
not confdence in his professional abilities. Call
'-'- A' '-' - THos, .soMERv1LLE,
National Brass Works.
ElsH1NGToN. Oct is. 1879.
Isenator d. W. voorhees.l
thank you very sincerely for the relief received
fru, yeur treatment of my hearing, which has been
s,iously impaired the result OF an excessively Sc
fSon Of Gov. Bishop, Of Ohio.]
D.. Won Moschzisker operated very successfully on
a!syes and restored my sight.-IW s. BISHOP.
[Gen. Kilburn, q. 8. Al
. Shder DIR. Won MoschZisker's treatment recoY-
u lay hearipx-TC- L.. KIIBURN. decl
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HAYWARD d HUTCHINSON,
SI7 Ninth street n.tc.,

o't srecial attention to
ElMODELING AND MOpERNIZING DEFEC-
TIVE PLUMBING
ety residences. Also, manufacture SLATE
aaiAATELS and sell FURNACES, RANGES,
ShAIES, FIREPLACE STOVES, English TILE
~ ~ BRASS GOODS. DIR. Colboun's Porous Eyap-
s.Stor Il the only good thing in that line, and we
~ the patents for Manufacturing. decl
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THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS sTo-pAy.-Internalr rev.
enue, S521, ,171.61; customs. S547, ,64l73

UTEs TO CONE TO WAsHINGTON.-Secretar
SchurZ telegraphed Gen. Hatch last night that
the friendly Southern L tes chiefs can be bTOugh
ON to Washington.
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CONGRESSMAN AIKEN, of S. c.. in a published
letter, says that "neitherTilden, Hendricks, Han
cock nor Bayard can secure enough electoral
votes, in his Judgment to insure either Of the
abovenamed when backed by an entire south
chair. Is it reasonable or even impolitic for me
to say so? If so, l am both impolitic and
traitorOuS."
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GENERAL GRANT and party left the city yester
day afternoon at $50 p. m. in the Pullman hotel
car PRESIDENT attached to the Richmond train
A party of about thirty friends saw the party
off, among them eX-Ciov. Shepherd. j. A. J.
Creswell, Gems. Van Vliet and Merely, Col.
Thomas, Jesse Grant, and Henry Honore, a
that the party will sail from Cuba for Mexico on
February 12.
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SRCoND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENEREL
BRADY, who had contemplated resigning his
position, will not now retire until an investiga-
ton is had by Congress OF the charge made
against him in the newspapers, growing out Of
the increased mail service for Star routes. He
doesn't want to 90 out under fire.
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GEN. GARFIELD has gone to Ohio, bat will re-
turn to Washington before the Ohio Senatorial
fight comes on. He feels so confident of hi
election that he will not put in an appearance
at Columbus at all. Nearly all the Ohio polid-
clans. democrats and republicans alike concede
that Garfield viii be elected
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DK. A, Won MOsCHZIsKER,

DR. F. A. Won MOSCHZISKER.
TIE WEIL-KNOWN EUROPEAN PHYSICIAN
AND SPECIALIST, LATE OF PHlLA-
DELPHIA, HAS OPENED AN OF
EICE AT
6l8 I9th st. N. w.
sFECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO DISEASES
OF THE
EYE, EAR, THROAT, LUNG, CHEST DIS
EASES, CATARRH, ASTHMA.
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EX-G0y. HUNT SAYS THE UTEs MUST Go.-EX-
Governor Hunt, OF Colorado, who made the
treaty with the Ute Indians under which they
now occupy the valuable reservation upon
which they are located, arrived in the city last
night and is at the Ebbitt House. He thinks
the UteS Will have to be removed from their
reservation, and that all attempts to treat with
them will be futile. He says the government
made mistake in ever attempting TO treat with
them. He does not think that Gen. Hatch and
the commission are in danger, because Ouray
has both the power and the inclination to pro
tect the party.
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Earthquake and Fire.

A shock OF earthquake was felt at TOXIC and
vicinity on the morning Of Nov. Goth. 1t was
unsurpassed in violence In the last years.
The town OF HokOdadi in Yego, was partly
destroyed by fire on Dec. I. About 1900 houses
were burned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-31

THERE WAS A RUMoR at the Patent Office late
to-day that Commissioner of Patents Paine had
resigned.
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WASHINGTON MARKET COMPANY.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
WASHINGTON MARKET COMPANY will be held
ri the office of the Company in the Market Build
ii rs in the city Of Washington, at II o'clock
on the frs; MONDAY, being the 5th day of Janu-
nv 1880 for the choice of thirteen directors for
III ensuing year, and to act on any other subject
WITHIN the power of the Corporation.
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GEN. BUTLER Not GOV. GARCELoN's ADVISER.
Gen. Butler was asked yesterday if it were true
that he had given legal advice 10 Gov. Garcelon
touching the situation in Maine. The general
replied, "No sir. / have given Gov. Garcelon
no advice, and | think. with the experience OF
1885, that no one Will care to again play the role
of visiting statesmen either by telegraph, let
ter or in peISQn,- -
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Terrible Account from Africa.

A letter from the United States consul
at Tangier, Morocco, dated March 10,
1879, gives the following terrible account
of the suffering from the famine and
from starvation. Living human beings
eating the dend is almost all uhheard
of ..::horror. The consul writes rs fol-
l)ws:
All who can are now running away
from this most unfortunate country,
where famine, cholera, typhus have and
are more than decimating its population
At Tangier alone we are having from
thirty to forty cases of typhus per day,
and at the city of Morocco the daily
mortality by typhus is from 200 to $50
persons. The ordeal of death is com.
plete. Parents eat their children, and at
Magador, Lulf and Cassabianca the
starving Arabs eat their dead. The at
mosphere is impregnated with deadly
poisons, emanating from the thousands
that are half buried and the many left
out, exposed to the sun and rain.
The European residents take every
precaution, nevertheless nearly one-hall
have succumbcd to the dreadful disease.
The fatalist Moslems ridicule all such
expedients to avoid contagion, believing
that it is all written by God, and that
they must die If so decreed. The gar
ments of the dead by disease are sold at
auction for q trife, and put on To the
wretched buyer, who soon after is gcner-
ally taken sick and follows in the wake
of the former wearer.
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ORIGIN OF SHAVING THE FACE.--The
custom of shaving the beard wes enforced
by Alexander Macedon, not for the sake
of fashion, but for practical end. He
knew that the soldiers of India, when
they encountered their foes, had the habit
of grasping them by the beard, and so he
ordered the soldiers to shave. Afterwards
shaving was practiccd in the Macedonian
army, and then among Greek citizens.
The Romans initiated the Greeks in the
practice, as they did in many other things,
and spread it to the different European
nations yet barbaric. In the middle agt s.,
at the time of the Renaissance, shaving
was introduced, and the habit WAS re.
tanned, shough classicism gave place to
romanticism, and that, i'll its turn, was
replaced by realism. The beard WAS a
source of trouble to Peter the Great,
who, simultaneously with the lnlr"duc-
tion of his great reforms in Rusia, lri' d
to induce his people to initiate the shay
ing nations. This innovation WAS resis-
ted by his subjects with the utmost per-
sistence, and they preferred to pay Il
heavy fine rather suffer Disagreement, as
they believed, of the image of God. To
the Russians of olden times the beard
was symbol of liberty. In several
countries of western Europe and in the
United States the beard was restored to
honor only about twenty years ago, but
even yet the majority of men respect the
custom introduced by Alexander the
Great Columbia Register.