The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-11
RUSSIAN NEWS AND views.
rA,ues or 1utersst from Russian journal,


tion with the engineers department. have resolved to
establish Rsronautic park whore officers and sol.
ders from the ranks will learn the theory and practice
of bAlloonng. Next year ono OF the great oroses OF
the empire will be provided with a regular balloon
corps aud the other fortresses will also be provdedSs
RAPIDLY and machines are ntted for the service
Besides the regular division, which to do service at
tho fortrosses in time OF peace, number OF officers
will be detailed every year to learn the AoronAutic
service at the park and to form reserved for
the time OF The practice OF aeronautics will be
taught under the supervision OF the galvsnc depart
meut OF the engineers division.
The laborers of the blacksmith Zhuraven Of KiAv
found a concal bomb and conceived tho notion OF
using 1t as anvil They know what the thing waA
but they thought II not charged because they hal
found 1t lying about freely. To make that It
not dangerous the- tried 1t several times in the nro
and II did not explode llereupon thoy fitted 1t up as
an anvil But as 40 they tried to forge piece OF
iron on It. 1t exploded with tremendous force tore on
the roof Of tho building, and shattered tho walls
Luckily tho explosion tended upward above the heads
OF the workingmen, and only three OF them were
slightly wounded by flying Fragments
tits reported from Askhabad that after an unusually
early spring in the trans Caucasian districts VI Russia
season OF sweltoring hot weather onsuod aooSI the
middle OF june and with 1t came tho fear of out.
break OF cholera. Tho medical stan of the military
posts OF that region taking measures to prevent
spread OF the dread disease Orders have been Issued
to Keep streets and markets Of the towns clean and
Commissioners have been appointed to Investigate
trains and coming from tue borders of Persia
Tho Dnttrnn of saratov reports characteristic 90.
The peasants of KniazevkR village about
hve miles from tho city OF saratov, recently
bled to elect an Elder. None of the nominees seemed
to suit the assembly and after several sessions and
warm debates no result was attained. At last Of
the assembly proposed the peasant woman Alexandra
1liovna n candidate. she Is active woman, and
manages her property with great credit she will con.
sequently be tho httest person in tho village to repre-
sent US before the auth rites" The proposal at first
evoked smile on every countenanco but after sitting
the matter, tho assembly unanimously elected AiexRn.
dra Iliovna Elder OF the village o: RniaEevka and
sent In her name for approval to the authorities
tho instance of Bishop Alexander of MoBcow the
arrangements of funeral PROFESSIONS has been taken
OF the hands OF undertakers Tho Clerical Council Of
the city have established funeral bureau whose funo
ton 10 all funeral PROFESSIONS of the city OF
MOSCOW for the rich and the poor according the
doris of tho mourning families. There will be seven
classes of obseQues each according to the price which
tho mourners may be willing to pay.
Tho Noropt premvd reports that the Police Depart
ment has established an Rnthropometrio bureau in
connection with its secret service. Ilenceforh bo-
sides Photographic kenesses, the anthropometrc do
scrpton OF all persons arrested by the police will
preserved in the archives To this bureau all persons
caught travelling without passports will be all
persons who will not toll what they do to living.
persons attracting public notice by irregular depor.
ment persons who have been disciplined by the police,
and all suspects and criminals Of graver description
They will be stripped naked and measured in
tho following manner: Height they stand up
right, height they sit up straight length
OF armA length and width OF heads length
Of the right OF the left foot of the middle and
small BnRers of the foreSrms from tho joints OF the
hands to tho chow. The color OF tho eyes hair and
beard will be noted and al exceptional physical trata
This description will be copied the back of the photo
graphic picture Of the measured and recorded
in the books under the respective number of arrest
This Ia modelled after the that exists IN
Paris The Peters burg paper states that foreign
municipalities have encouraged the Russian police in
the establishment Of this institution and that from New
York rich selection OF anthropome rio Of
criminals Of all nationailies has been sent"
Tho Russian Minister of the Interior has submitted
for the approval of tho Ministerial Council q bill for
the suppression Of horse stealing 1t prescribeS thaS
gypses shall DO prohibited from moving about in Rus
STA and that every owner OF horse must take
tifcate from the police or from the authorities Of his
rural district attegting his rghtful ownership. g
horse is sold this certificate must be produced and
transferred to the name OF the purchaser. Tho one
who soils horse is to DO hold responsible for its good
condition and he must return the purchase money and
pay hne il he deceives the buyer in his representa-
tsns Of age health If diseased amin al is sold
and ntecs the purchasers cattle, tie seller pay
al! damages and be tried before r!minal court
In the Turkestan provinces of Russia tSamarcand
Tashkeut and others and southern Russia in Eu-
rope, Kharkov aud neighborng cities cholera made It's
appearance in the mild Of June Money is appruprIa
ted by the municipalities and energetic measures
taken by the Government authorities to prevent the
spread OF the disease.
Salt mining. says tho Russktvd Vtrdomosr has been
properly established In the district of Bakhmoot In the
government Of Yekatornoslav, only within the last
ten although some attempts at It had been made
few years previous In 1851 the shaft OF the BrnskOy
Company sunk. 1t yielded tho frat yrSr sUDD0
pools but in 1898 It produced $4,000 pools OF salt
employing 27o miners At about $40 feet from that
shaft tho mine of tho DekonovsSoy Company was
pools Of salt Three years later tho KhArzar
moySEa mine was opened with 2l3 laborers and
It produces over 261pOOD pools OF salt every year
The Anonynskoye company opened their mine in Sop
TENDER 1887 and got out OF It about 300 100 pools OF
salt by the end OF the following year employing 800
men. Finally the mine of the DekonOvska- PostroV.
skaya company was opened in 1898; 1t yields about
sOO.oD pools of salt year. Besides this there
two salt refining factories IN that district one in The
city OF Bakhmoot established since 1875, produces
1870 900 pools every year keeping 1873 employed:
the other one established in lSs2 and employing only
eleven laborerS produces about 1870 pools Of
nuay. Tho salt which is here produced is consumed
mostly in tho territories beyond tho Vysa in tho north
western regions there 10 demand for it in the eau.
casuL and some OF 1t is shipped to central Russia
On June % the monument OF Count Todleben Com
mAudsr OF the army in the Crimean unveiled
in sebastopol with imposing ceremonies. Delegations
from the principal regiments as well a. represents
tves of many Governments of the empire were present
The Statistical Bureau Of the Minister OF RoadS aud
ThoroughfAres has published new map which all
roads thorouGhfarss, and avenues OF intereOmmuni.
cation by land and by throughout the empire
marked. The map embraces all the roads which have
been laid out and opened up TO this spring, and pre-
sents sketch OF those planned for the future,
Tho police Of st. Petersburg has sent notice to all the
saloon keepers in the neghborhood of factories that
they will he heavily tn.d II they continue selling
spirtuous drnks to Iaborers on trust beguile the
laborsrs TO drink IN any other way.
An eminent physician of St Petersburg called 70
q patient young lady OF good family suffering with
nervous prOBtrEtion. on examination he found that
tho young lady had taken part in hypnotic seances
and had been hypnot|ed several times lie reported
the facts to the medical council A commission
of three eminent physicians examined tho patient and
subs tantatsd tho fact that her atlmeut duo TO
hypnotic practices
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