Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-31

gins, "when the officers of that effets monarchy look at that bird their teeth will chatter so that they'll have to put pads on 'em." But Mr. Higgins was mistaken. When his ship landed at St. Petersburg an officer asked to see his passport. MT. Hig- gins drew it out with flourish. That of feial looked at it and told MT. Higgins that it was worthless and that he should nave to arrest him. MT. Higgins, it seemed, should have stopped in Stockholm and had the Russian consul sign his pass port. MT. Higgins was angry and offered to go on the pier with the official and fight it out with him. If Higgins whipped he was to stay, if the official was victorious Higgins would go back in the same ship by which he had arrived. The official de- clined, though MT. Higgins took off his coat and "dared" him. About this time full regiment of soldiers marched up and took charge of MT. Higgins. Half of them fell in behind and half in front, and with two bands playing Russian national airs he was marched to jail. Mir. Higgins tied his passport on his cane and waved it and hurrahed for liberty few times, but it didn't seem to do any good. When they reached the police headquarters some off, sian language, which MT. Higgins does not
 
 go, but told him not to stay at any hotel. He asked for permit to leave the coun- try, but his was refused him. hr. Hig- gins now found himself in peculiar posi- ton; he could not leave the country, he could not stay at any hotel and he had no friends anywhere with whom he could stay.
 Mir Higgins walked out from police headquarters an American Wandering Jew" Clearly he must stay somewhere | the Russian climate is not favorable to sleeping under a tree-so he decided to | disregard the instructions about hotels, and went to one aud registered with 8 stub | pen in bold, black hand. But it did moi | work-the police looked at his passport, shook their heads, and the proprietor told him that he must go. So he took his trunk by one handle and, dragging it be hind him, went out. He subsequently, | Josh Whitcombed that trunk, if we may | so express it, all over the broad empire oi Russia. He would usually manage to stay in hotel about two hours, when he would have to drag his trunk down stairs and
 look for another stopping place. He had
 to get new handles put on his trunk foul times and a new bottom twice. He be
 came so accustomed to having the trunl
 rattling along behind him that even wher | uo WalkoQ Out llC COu4bfy " AOOA al
 the scenery he took it with him. He used
 to attract considerable attention, and was
 frequently escorted out of town by reg
 iment of soldiers. On such occasions, as
 delicate compliment to him, the band
 would play our national airs. Finally
 when he was at Moscow, so Mir. Higgins
 says, it occurred to him to see if the thing
 could not be fixed up on financial basis
 something he claims that he succeeded ir
 doing with city official, the consideration
 being fifty dollars. Mir. Higgins, with his
 amended passport and his trunk, then
 took the first train for the frontier. Hs
 arrived in this country safely few days ago, and is now anxious to arrange a six
 day walking match with some pedestrian,
 each man to drag one hundred and fifty pound trunk behind him. If all that Mir. Higgins tells is true, it would be well fol
 any of our readers who may be going tc Russia to be sure that their passports ars
 what they should be or to carry very light
 trunks with wheels on them.