Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-23

the world. The butter is invariably good
and some of that which have had is SC
sweet that l can eat it like cheese tbs
never salted and it is served in great loaves.
the guest cutting Oft as much as he wishes,
The Teas and the Wine Are Good.
I have drunk great deal of the Russian
wine and find that the wines of the Crimea
and the Caucasus are very good. The
champagne of the Don is a little sweeter
than 'Mumm's Extra Dry" and some of the
wines of the Crimea taste like cider 1 dc
not like the Russian beer known as kvas,
but the tea is good everywhere, and the
russian takes n glass every hour or SO and
merchants do all their business over tea.
The peasants who bring things here to Moe
COW to sell never make bargain except at
the Traktirs, and you find the samovar and
the Tea glass everywhere.
Every one who can afford it smokes in
Russia Cigarettes are used more than
cigars, and l see very few pipes. The
cigarettes are shorter than ours but the
tobacco is good and it is often brought from
Turkey. Ali tobacco paws a high revenue
and cigars are bought on sight, and not on
smell. To get cigar you have to get a
whole box, and the boxes are sold with glass
tops, through which You can see the cigars,
but as these are pasted shut with revenue
stamp you cannot handle them. These
boxes are OF all sizes, and in ordering q
cigar at dinner you will have one cigar
brought to you in a little glass box, and a
fairly good cigar will cost you 40 cents.
You will fare better if you smoke cigarettes,
and you must not be surprised if there are
any ladies at the table TO see them smoke,
too. Nearly all Russian women smoke
cigarettes and it is not thought out of place
to see woman here with a cigarette in her
| mouth There is some snufing done in
| Russia, and though there are no tobacco
chewers here, the Russians are, like the
Americans, nation of spitters. You find
spittoons in every room, and the Russian
splttoon is brass or wooden box filled
with sand. -s
In the Russian Markets.
I visited some of the Russian markets
here the other day, and they have MANY
features which could be adopted with profit
by us. Fish are sold alive, and the only
dead ones are the dried ones They are
kept in stone watts of running water, and
the fishwife will stand with a dozen of
| these marble watts about her, each filled
with different kinds of fish. Russia has
! some of the greatest fisheries in the world.
Millions upon millions of dollars worth of
-hsAt az adhSu CNcIg year lGOHi tue olga,
the Caspian and Black seas and all the
caviare of the world comes from here. You
see this caviare sold in cans and tubs in the
markets. 1t looks like bidshot sprinkled
with salt water, and it is made up of the
eggs of the sturgeon, which are killed for
this purpose. ~
The queerest markets of Russia are those
of the winter, when all sorts of fish and
meats are cold in a frozen state. There are
many curious things sold in the markets
here, and you can buy eels and snakes and
chicken legs. Lambs feet are sold as a
great dainty and calves feet are bought for
soup bones. Among the oils which are used
by the peasants for salads and cooking is
sunflower oil, and one OF the-great indus
tries Of this country is sunfower raising.
The peasants eat sunfower seeds in large
quantities and they nibble at them and
chew upon them as we do peanuts You can
hardly find man who has not some sun
flower seeds in his pocket and everywhere
you go you see women with baskets oil
these black and gray seeds for sale. They
taste very much like pumpkin seeds and
the peasants eat them at their gatherings
just as the Chinese do watermelon seeds at
the theaters. FRANK G. CARPENTER