The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-24
DOG-DAYS IN RUSSIA.
FAIRY PLAYS AND OTHER ST. PETE
ERSBURG FRlVOLITlES.
Official Junketing Trips at the Publis
Cost-The Cars Visit to Finland
Merry st. Petersburgers-Live
Competitive Contests.
Tst. Petersburg Cor. New York Sun I


The activity of the Russian officials to
al appearances reaches it's highest point
In dog days. Now, as in former Years
there are scores of different commissions
and committees. sub commissions and
sub committees tray eIing in all the parts
OF the country, presumably for the public
ends. They seem to revise various
branches of the administration, and to
study on the spot different questions OF
nat .oual Importance. such as epidemics,
epiZootics. the aying of new RAILWAYS
the digging of new canals the improve
ment OF rivers, the protection to some new
industries, the struggle against grasshop
pers. the Siberian marmOts, the sectarians
and the : ihi.sts the opening Of new
ports, and no end Of other big points. Ii
ought to be highly gratifying to the cars
sub ects to see his o. Gals earning theii
bread by the sweat of their brows
But the trouble is that they the sub
jects know very well that that unseasoned
display of o cial aCttv t. is merely dog
days sunketing at public cost yery
year as the vacations approach thu
tchinovniks here Vie with each other in in.
venting the public questions that shouIt
be studied n the spot Some of these
Junketing trips are, nevertheless. de
scrlbed in the newspapers at great length,
as if they really meant business Iust
now, for Instance, all the journals of this
capital are describing the cars trip to
/ inIa d.
On the shore of the Finnish bay in \
picturesque spot, there is a little town
Whitman strand. The car and czarins
made up Their minds to go there aud seq
the sights They wanted to 90 there bv
railway and to return back aboard o.
some man Ofwar. To please such quests
the t inns have built railway from 4 DO
to Whitman strand, distance of sixteen
miles. When everything was ready. in
The Official Messenger there appeared an
item stating that his ma esty was going to
review the armies of Finland. Now.
those armies consist of nine battalions all
told or weeks the inn soldiers were
making triumphal arches, ornamenting
the railroad stations with fir garlands and
covering the platforms with red cloth.
At last the car, III company with
scores Of generals and courtiers. went on
his Finnish journey, or as the papers
lyle 1t, Ibis triumphal march The
INN women presented to the 1arina a
httie boat of their own make, and the
L1en have in various ways shown their
ioyalty. AS soon, however, as the ar
Tas gone, the senate of Finland voted
unanimously to raise the tax on Russian
Goods imported to Finland-in order, as
II were. to cover the expenses of the i'm
erial trip.
Among other official trips Of this sea-
on is worth noticing that of bishops
n the city OF ka4an there met twelve
plshops, each accompanied by half a
lo1en learned theulogians. They hold
heir meetings in a church and discuss
means OF bringing Mohammedan Tartars
md the old belieN ers to the bosom of the
2rthodOx church, and of strengthening
lalth among The people. A bishop sug.
gested education as the best means for
hat end. but the rest of the theologians
we're unanimous in matchmaking mod.
3rn education. See what lite the best
educated people of st. Petersburg are liv.
ing! remarked one of them.
During these dog days the St Peters.
burgers live as merrIly as in any other
=eaSon The fairy play is the rage of the
-ay mere. In all the suburban fashion
up some fairy play. The Journey to
The Noon, for instance. has been PLAYED
mere about hundred times Another
play OF the kind, The Golden Apples, "
las been presented about seventy-f1ve
lines. ne critic expressed his surprise
81 Inc success OF these pla, s, which, as ne
fald have no sense whatever.
sense. answered a critic of The
NoVoe remya I've do not care for
sense at ALL Show US beautiful forms.
graceful movements, expressive panto.
mlmes-that is what we want. We are
tlred of sensible q aIugues zee what toes
OF steel has Mime. CORY, and did you
ever see such parsonihcation of grace as
- Nine ukki. Low charmingly fairy
Ike she goes up to tie moon
other dog day. places of amusement will
see charming enes and host of fairies;
ihey will hear music and Songs.
and notice ingenious disguises.
wonderful transformations, and sugges.
i've pantomimes.
ompetitlon In Russia is tust now very
lively. The car brother, Grand Duke
Iadlmlr is watching the military cook
competltIo in pre- airing the soldier mess,
ana lie distributes personally the cook
DR.. es OF silver spoons with small sums of
money. Then the cars uncle. Grand
Duke Nicholas, oversees a curious race at
distance OF 100 versts sixty -seven miles)
between the cavalry GERS and a railroad
srain the former winning Another cars
inc e. Grand IKE Michael. is noting
winch OF seven batteries will the quicker
demo lsh its target. while the peasants of
the neighborhood are thanking God for a
good crop. 1t is we'll known here that
the residents of several villages near
krasnoe Selo. where the big maneuvers
lake place. live exclusi ely on the bullets,
and bonn bshells they pick up
Oh their fields. A few days ago, near
Cronstadt, there was a race between hus-
sian and finnish yachts which competed
for the prize of the ministry of marine, a
siX-ton yacht A / ussian yacht won the
prize. AS for horseraces, we have them
almost every day.