Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-05-22

4 de8u In ARE, and had the date, AGO,
painted on it, but this was believed to
refer not to its first construction, but to
some period Of renovation Itwas twelve
feet long and twelve feet broad. The
ponderous structure is still in existence.
having been sold to the proprietor of
/ the Rye House, near Broxbourne. where
it is an object of curiosity to hundreds
OF visitors. Leisure Hour.
] Russian Streets and People.
In most Russian towns the houses are
small, and every family has one Of its
own. st. Petersburg and Odessa are
/ exceptions. Here the population live In
flats, within six and seven stored
houses, higher than those of Paris. In
the poorer quarters of Odessa the giant
houses have an odd look owing to the
smallness of the windows and the mum.
Der OF absent panes which have been
replaced by layers of creased paper on
account of the dearness OF glass. A
watch glass costs seventy five cents in
Odessa, foot square window pane
about $3.50. The streets of Odessa are
picturesque. for signboards abound and
stone fronts are painted in staring col
1 OAC-A AAo oAuNp y IAAOW anu COIs
There are no posters, for advertising
constitutes monopoly in the hands OF
| company, who have hitherto confined
themselves to the newspaper branch Of
putting, and have not mustered enter
prise enough to disfgure public thor
Oughfarcs. At the corner of almost
every street YOU come upon Byzantine
looking shrine of the Virgin, with a
number of Russians signing themselves
bareheaded in front. You meet the Vir-
gin in various other unexpected places
lin railway stations, in fost-offices,
with little oil lamp Pickering at her
feet. The behavior of the people in the
streets is quiet and civil. If Russian
knocks against you he begs your par
don with sincere show of cOntriCiOn;
if he sees your nose turning white
in the cold weather, he picks up hand
full of snow and rubs it with brotherly
officiousness till the circulation is re-
stored. Pigeons infest the streets with
impunity, for they are held sacred; even
if Russian were starving it would not
occur to him to knock one of these birds
on the'head and cook it. Russians are
frantically fond of music, and all the
tea houses are provided with some kind
of organ on the musical box system.
These instruments are manufactured at
Moscow, and are accounted better than
those of Switzerland, the larger ones,
such as enlIven the big tsa houses. play
ing as many as q hundred tunes and
costing several thousand dollars. An.
organ of this sort makes as much noise
as a full orchestra. In the smaller tea
houses the organ tunes are frequently
varied of an evening by the perform
ance of some strolling minstrel in eau
casian costume, who strums on tri-
angular guitar to the melodies of
Lithuania and Little Russia. The eau
casian minstrel, dressed in black vel
vet tunic adorned on either breast with
rows of silvered cartridge tubes into
which he puts the tobacco in time of
peace, generally begins with the plain
tiff airs which the roussalkas (water
fairies) are supposed to sing as they
lure their admirers into deep water; he
goes on by and by to the twanging war
songs which console men for broken
heads, but as evening advances he is
always called upon for a dance, and
the tea tables being pushed aside, the
natives prepare for hop of the widest
kind. 1t is a veritable French can-can,
more unbridled if anything than the
Quarter Latin. Bells are another of
the Russians delights; and on Sunday
mornings the riot of chimes, triple
peals, and bob majors that ring from
church domes is enough to gladden. the
most enthusiastic lover Of campan.
ology.
Thieves and policemen are the grea,
pests of Russian towns. but especially
policemen. A man who has resided
in
doubt whether the notions of meum ct
tuum are comprehended here as they
are in other countries. If you pay
visit and leave cloak on the scat of
you carriage that cloak is gone when
you come out. Householders are liable
to have their horses and carriages
stolen if they do not keep sufficient
number of stable servants, and to take
care to see before going to bed that
one at least of these menials is sober.
It goes, however, without saying, that
a person influential enough to make
himself unpleasant to the police gets
back his property IN no time; the po-
lice will even restore him the equivalent
if they cannot recover the actual ar
ticles. A Frenchman of rank who had
left an opera glass in a box at the
opera, missed it, as matter of course,
and mentioned his loss to the Civil
Government, who took up the matter
forthwith. It appeared, however, that
the article had been purloined by free
lance having no connection with the
police; so an official waited upon the
Frenehman with glass three times as
good as the one he had lost, saying that
the authorities would consider then-
selves disgraced if stranger lost any
thing in their country speech which
must have given the Frenchman rosy
idea of Russian honesty Merchants
snd tradesmen often pay thief insnr-
ance money to the police; but, as the
thieves can generally pay still more for
the privilege Of being let alone. the in
surance is only accepted al rGloreaa. SO
to say. For instance, man may In-
sure his watch, his diamonds, his over
coat, but not his safe if burglars can
manage to rifle it. Besides. the police
do not play fair, and continually shield
themselves by pretending that there are
too many Independent rogues about,
who meanly work on their own sole ac-
count. Petersburg Cor. Brooklyn
Eagle.
1T is told Of quite number of DIS !
Greet citizens of Greenville County, s.
c., that they have dug storm pits into
which they can conveniently slide when
another cyclone comes.