Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-02-01
WALKS TO ESCAPE HIS WIFE.
by Keeping on the Move for Twenty.
Five Years Wanderer Has
Dodged n scolding.

Newspapers in st. Petersburg, Rus.
sia, contain accounts of the strange
wandering of Theodore MiranhoT, d
peasant of Tamboy. For 25 years
Miranhoff has been a wanderer on
the face of the earth. In that time
he has walked enough to carry him
around the earth at the equator. He
has done little all those 25 years but
walk, walk, walk. He has walked
the SHOWS of Siberia, he has walked
up the Tamir highlands in central
Asia, and tramped along the banks Of
the Amur river to it's source. He has
gone shuffling across China, and his
weary feet have stirred the dust in
every road in Japan from Nagasaki
to Mount Morioshi. He has invaded the
United States and walked along the
west coast and over the Rocky noun.
tains, and across the country to the
Atlantic seaboard. Then back again
to Russia, and the last heard of him
he was wearily walking up the left
bank Of the Volga river, in Russia, de.
termined to follow it for NIL Its wind.
ing $500 miles to its source.
And when Theodore Miranhoff had
walked up along the left bank of the
Volga from the Caspian sea to its
source, what did he propose to do then
Why, then, he was going to step across
10 the other bank of the Volga and
walk from its source down to the Cas-.
plan sea.
Thus for 25 years has Theodore
Miranhoff been walking. And all tc
escape the tongue lashng Of his shrew'
ish wife. Like poor Rip Van Wrinkle
who fed to the mountains and went tc
sleep for 20 years, Theodore Miranhof
has fed to the trackless desert ant
the fields of Ice and snow in the effort
to walk away from the terrible tongue
of his wife. But, unlike Rip Van Win
kle, who went back after 20 years, ant
found peace, poor Theodore Miranhof
even after 25 years was met by hi.
wife, still much alive, and who un
braided him in more burning words
than ever and chased him with broom
to the outer circle of Tamboy.
Then it was Theodore Miranhof
made the remark, which, II translated
literally from Russian to English
would be: "It's me to the Volga," fo
off he put for the banks of the Volgi
with no other intention than that o
walking up one side of that grea
stream, dipping his feet in the sourc
of the river, and then walking dow
the other side. 1t was anything to ge
away from his wife, and 50 as lon,
as she lives Theodore Miranhoff vii
keep walking. It's a question of en-
durance between his sturdy legs an,
Mrs. Miranhoff's sturdier tongue, wit
the odds all in favor OF the tongue last
ing the longest.
Miranhoff, when a young man, wen
with his family to Vladivostok, on th
eastern coast of Siberia. There it wa.
apparently, that the continual tongu
lashings of his wife became so vic
lent that Miranhoff decided to leav
his happy home. He started out o
his wanderings.
Finally he reached st. Petersbur
after walking over 6,000 miles. Blu
he was not happy there. He decide
to keep on walking. He marched ava
across Russia, tramping from town I
town until finally he had reached tn
Ural mountains. He crossed these ]
winter, and, descending into Siberl
again, walked southeast and climbe
slowly up the highlands to Tamir, th
roof of the world. He found his wa,
sometimes travelling with caravans, bt
oftener alone, until he reached th
Western Kinghan mountains, wher
he hunted for the source of the Amt
river. He slowly followed the rive
in its course to the sea, and in tin
found bimslf at Kharbavoka, in
IBERIA, only 400 miles from his HON
So he returned to Vladivostok.
He determined to stay at home
spite of all. But one day, after an III
usually furious outburst on the pa
of his wife, Theodore silently vanishe
again. This time he walked throug
China down to Port Arthur and Ne'
Chwang.
The last seen Of bini he was
Novgorod, on the volga, walking, wal
ing walking.
The last heard Of Mrs. Miranhoff 81
was still at Vladivossok. And she vi
talking, talking, talking
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