Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-05-21
RUSSIAN MOBILES RUINED.

celebrated John Bunyan.
RUSSIAN MOBILES RUINED.
Despite Government Aid, Their Estates Are
More and More Heavily Mortgaged.
Mr.. John Mitchell, British consul at
st. Petersburg, in the course of his an
nual report to Lord Salisbury upon the
condition of the country, says: Ten
years of strenuous support of a financial
character on the part Of the govern
1nent of the landlord class has failed to
yield the desired results. The Nobility
Land bank has proved unequal to the
task of arresting the sure but gradual
decay Of the class in question. Mort
gagged estates were repeatedly, by hun
dreds and even thousands, destined to
be dealt with by the auctioneer's ham,
mer,s but at the critical moment the
government has always interviewed with
new acts of grace which postponed the
evil day.
at the present time more than 1OO,-
900 estates, or Al per cent. of the whole
area of the land owned by mobiles, are
mortgaged to various government and
private land credit institutions, and the
amount of money advanced on these es-
tates has reached 1860 100000 rubles
{ & 126, 500, 0oO). of which sum 1,174,OOO,-
600 rubles (e1l7, zoo, 000) still remains
owing. In the course of the last five
years (1sS9-1S94, the Indebtedness of
landed estates to private land banks
increased over 100000 rubles (Gs,-
2O0,00O), and these banks last year
reaped profit of more than 100000
rubles (e7OO.oOO) on these operations.
"Of the enormous capital of the No.
bility Land bank, exceeding e5o,OeO,-
600, created by the government for the
express purpose of making money adj
vances to landlords. but little has been
paid back, and but little improvement
has been made in the cultivation Of
estates. It is asserted by those we'll
acquainted with provincial life that the
millions advanced to the noble land
lord class have not been expended in
the improvement of their estates, but
were spent on amusement, luxury, tray
els. payment of old debts and unprotit-
able enterprises.
the almost complete extinction of the
noble land-owning class is to be found
in absenteeism. The cultivation of land
unfortunately does not afford the no.
bility those attractions that are present
ed by life in towns and by careers in
various branches of the government
service, the latter being, moreover, &C.
companied by the acquisition of rank
and social distinction."-N. Y. Herald.
s- A Lighted Gun.
The shades of night are no longer Il
protection to game from the powers Of
the sportsman. An English nimrod has
invented a luminous sight, for use in
bad light. A tiny incandescent lamp,
fed from single storage battery con-
cealed in the gun stock, is mounted
within a shield at the muzzle of the
gun, and faint ray of light calculated
to indicate the position of it's source is
exposed in the direction of the shooters
eye, and this is sufficient to enable him
to obtain the required alignment with
the back sight and with the target, be
it animate or inanimate. The special
application of the sight is for game
shooting at night and for naval sery-
ice, such, for instance, as the illumina-
ton of a machine gun used against tor
pedo attacks during the night. For the
+. latter purpose it has been adopted in the
English navy.-N. Y. Journal.
A Draw.
An Irishman and a Yankee were play
ing the.forfeit game of questions.
How does the little ground squirrel
dig his hole and show no dirt at the en-
trance?" asked the Irishman.
Give it up, said the Yankee, at last.
Sure, you see, he begins at the other
end of the hole,'' said Pat, triumphant
ly.
But how does he get there 90 queried
the Yankee.
''Oh, that's your question; answer t
yourself" said Pat.-Harper's Round
Table.