The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-23

cigars, and see very few pipes. The cigar
cites are shorter than ours, but the tobacco
Is good ano IL is often brought from Turkey.
Ali tobacco pays high revenue and cigars
are bought on sight and not on smell. 10
get cigar you have TO get whole box,
and the boxes are sold with glass tops,
through which you can see the cigars, but
as these are pasted shut with a revenue
stamp you cannot handle them. These
boxes are of all sizes, and IN ordering
cigar Mt dinner you will have one cigar
brought TO you in a little glass box, and
fairly good cigar will cost you 40 cents.
You will fare better If you smoke cigar.
elites, and you must not be surprised IL
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 cigar
cite in her mouth. There is some shutting
done in Russia, and though there are no
tobacco chewers here the Russians are. like
the Americans, a nation OF spitters. You
find spittoons in every room, and the Rus.
sian spittoon is a brass or wooden box filled
with sand.
Visited some OF the Russian markets here
the other day. and they have many features
which could be adopted with profit by us.
are the dried ones. They are kept in stone
watts of running water. and the fishwife will
stand with a dozen OF these marble vats
about her. each filed with different kinds of
fish. Russia has some OF the greatest flsh-
cries of the world. Millions upon millions
OF dollars worth Of fish are taken every year
from the Volga, the Caspian and the 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 bird shot sprinkled WIFI salt water
and 1t is made up OF the eggs OF the stur-
geon. which are killed for this purpose. it
brings high prices even in Russia and Is
best when it is fresh. 1t fact, Russian say
that caviare should not be more than a
month old to be good, and that you cannot
get good caviare farther away from Inc vol
ga than Moscow. The meat OF the sturgeon
after the cavisre has been made from Tue
eggs is sailed and sold. You can buy IL mere
for about ten cents pound, and all sorts OF
dried fish are eaten by the people. Iney
are shipped in great crates all over the coun.
try and they form q large part OF tne uiet OF
the peasant. The consumption OF nsh Is III
creased by the numerous Russian iasts, DUR
ing which the people cannot eat meats but
must confine themselves to tlsn.
The oueerest markets of Russia are those
of the winter when all sorts of fish and
meats are sold In a frozen state. The Rus
sian winter is so cold that these fish are
caught at the beginning OF II, are placed In
watts and are sold 10 blocks TO suit the GUS
toners. The dealers buy them by the
tons and store them away for their retail
customers of the winter. Beef, mutton and
poultry are frozen the same way, and a
butcher can lay in during October his full
supply Of meats for the next six months.
The meats are frozen so hard that a
knife cannot cut them. and 1t is neces-
sary to saw them up or chop them with
an ak. Sp!inters Of frozen meat fly about
over the market. and children and beg
CARS collect these and take them home to
their families. There are many curious
things sold In the markets here, and you can