The sun., 1891-07-05
zUssrzS xxws AxD VIEWS

| Huss,s tunty'nve kurortA or places, win mineral
| waters and muds which physicians recommend for
drinking and bathing purposes Some Of these places
are quite famous for their healing vtues but the sick
Russians who might be benefited By their cura.
| tive qualities do not avail themselves OF them.
Larger numbers to the mineral springs OF Germany
switzerland and other foreign countries than TO ths
kurors OF their native land watch, according to tas
testimony Of competent physcana not inferior to
the others either In chemical in climatic virtue. In
is A. the report shows there were only
| IN all the Russian kurorts The number OF guests
In the most popular Caucasian places did not exceed
| 1900; Drooskenk and Tsckhotzyn had no mors
than 1000 guests each. and all the other
places counted their guests only by the hundreds
the tena The sick lsta tho other hand according
the medical statistcs showed no less than iaso.
600 nvads In Russia This unpopularty OF the Russian
kurorts is sscribed to the bad Of the
sors to the Inconvenience OF the hotels and boarding
houses and above all to the sStortions and trouble TO
which the guests subjected part Of the vxi.
l liant police and bureaucracy The st. Petersburg and
Moscow papers speak on this subject plainly and
| bitterly A. they dare Even such papers a Ncvoye
vrempd the viedomosu OF MOSCOW (not TO mistaken
for Rasskva Vitdomos, which pusues liberal tsnden.
oy and Others that enjoy the patronage tho Govern.
ment suggest mildly that something shouid be done
to make the Russian kurorts popular than they
are At present
MOSCOW daily sayi: The destruction of s all birds
In large numbers 10 profitable trade. bnt It Il not
devoid OF bad consequences for the Agricultural regon
Along the limos OF the Razru. Kozov Orov. Graz
| railroads dead and live birds shipped by the ten
housands for their feathers and those
regions various kinda OF insects and worms multiply
and destroy the frus OF tho orchards
aud kitchen gardsnA In several districts in Ekater
noslov lively trade 10 carried with the skim OF mar
pies; and there rats and neld mice are multiplying
rapidly and destroy the crops Of grain. Although
Russa abounds with birds OF all kinds the destruction
Of the birds Ia not carried on with impunity."
Between Bokhara and Fsrsan. in Central Asia, 10 .
large stretch OF land known a. GolodnsyA Step Che
Hunger praire In Russia The soil OF this stepps
excellent quality. but IL lacks Irrigation The Rus
sian Government has made attempts to irrisats this
soil and spent millions OF rubss In digging and
artsaian wells In various localities but
the careless prospecting Of the engineers and imperfect
arrangements made for the nivvsling of the soil all
these attempts have failed Last summer the Minister
OF Finance his tour In Central Asia made personal
inspection OF the Goodnaya Step and Of the
works OF Irrigation there He noted down carefully
what had been DONE and what according to the opin.
ion Of expers might be done to reclaim the stepps to
fertility. Recently he submitted to the Government
plan for the irrigation Of the whole region proposing
utilize convict labor for the purpose His plan was
accepted and work will begin from the convicts
station OF kooYluke eight tabout and quar-
ter mileO from the military station OF Tashksnt
Eoposi OF St. Petersburg shows from of,cal report.
that since 1899 has risen in price per cent and
that the area Of cheap grain (boow so kopeoks per
pood. or forty poundA) has diminished with relentless
regularity AZ RAPID btfloek inc Following scale
square vsrsts Is given to demonstrate the alarming
statement:
Rye oeoto Belo,o Beoto
30 kopecss. 20 kopecka 60 kopecks
July. 1880. area. eOo 264. 800 LOSa 100
October. 1880 area..- - 100000 67Z5oo
January, 1891. Arsa... 44sOO 89l oOo
April. 1891. arsa.....- - 1910 $1,000
At present there not place in the whole empire
whsre rye 10 sold at less than 81 kopecks per pood
Corresponding with the diminishing area of cheap rya
thA of fdAap ainsra aaAd Th>,
the highest prices in the nsghborhood Of port towns
in the Polish provincsA around Moscow. and In the
Ural datricts
According to the latest reports Of the Ministry OF
Imperial Property there in Russia an area Of 900
dessyatins Of land "a dessyan il about three acres
occupied with vinsyards and producing 2OoOO.ooo
pals "a pail four quarts wins This area
10 divided follows: In Caucasia there are over
10000 dessyatns OF vineyards producing about Looo
600 pals Of wne CrimeA has 1000 dessyatin vine.
yardA producing over 900 pails In the Govern.
ments of Bessarabs Khsrson, and Podolsk there are
90 OOO dessyatina yielding about pals In me
governments of Ekatsrnoslav the cosssck territories
on the Don In Asrakhan In tho Ural territories and
in Toorkastan there are 1000 dessyatn OF vineyarda
producing about 100000 pals Of wns The average
yield of wine for the st twenty years was $50 pals
per dessyatn There In the whole empire 900 600
dessyatns Of land fitted for wine culture All kinds of
vino can be cultivated In Russa Crimea alone pro-
ducss about i've hundred different kinda
The present population Of Hssingfors the capital Of
FINLAND s oee47 OF whom 20 7s7 Fnns and 90 $50
are swedea Last year thera only Il 80 Fiuns
and 2as4s swedea The diminishing of the proportion
of swsdes In Helsnefors is due. Eopoye vrrmya |
asserth to the progressive RussanIzation OF FINLAND
The Mining Departments OF the Ministries of Imperial
Property and Of the Interior have sent three
to America to study the methods by which gold 10
worked out In the mine. of Arizona Colorado Esvada
California, and Utah The yield Of the Russian gold
mines has been very poor of late and the raising
price OF labor as well ss the rising Of Russian values
tho foreign markets has made tho mining of gold al
most Improbable 1t is believed that the introd
Of American methods Of mining will improve the
miners trade
Ruthenian. 12+ years old, 10 living in the town of
BsRorod In the government of Koorsk; his name is
Bogdan Eitehnorenko He is still hale and hearty.
only bis hearing 10 somewhat impaired He ascrIbss
his old age to his manner OF living Al tho Of IS he
became ILL., and there were no physicians In the |
neigh hborhood. a Tartar practitioner or ..wiss man.
Iznakhdr) was engaged to cure him. For three weeks
he was under the Znakhars treatment until his health
was restored. Parting from him the znakhar told him
that II he wished 70 live long he never eat any
DID stale food. For fear lest he fall sick again,
Ntchinorsnko observed this rule scrupnously. He
.ts nothing but spring fowl veal. or lamb, and
never touched . piece of meat Of an old
animal. Even garden fruit he ate only whom
6 was quite young and fresh; he never
ouched canned or picked food OF any kind. He be- |
,Ame 10 hAouAteo to this diet that he conceived
version to old food and to ripe fruit lie married
hres timea and had eight dauRhtss all Of whom died
swsen the ages Of nifty and sixty years Al age OF
y Nitchinorenko took to him fourth wife, girl of 20
cara She bore him two daughters OF whom 10 at
present ~ years and the other 3s years old. ue says
hat ho did feel old until he attained the age Of io
md then only because he had suffered rsvsrses
md WAS compelled to change his manner Of ivins His
wife and two daughters take good OF him. and in
he neighborhood he 10 treated with great vsnsraon
contractor OF Kazan has found ont an oristnal |
method to test the strength anc aerness of the labor
70 he engagss for his work. lie the market
vhere the workingmen are waiting for . Job, and
riders them TO to wreso, and to lift each other
When "the boys have playsd enough for him 10 make
bservaons he engages those who have displayed the
rsAtsst strength and adroitness. hut he 10 generous
nough to treat all the other iaborera