The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-24
A BIG PENSION
FOR THE WIDOW
OF STOLYP|N
EMPEROR NICHOLAS HAS GRANT
ED HER $4,000 RoU5LEs, WHICH
EQUALS THE SALARY or THE
DEAD PREMIER.
~ Associates Press.

St Petersburg, Oct. 2S.-Emperor
Nicholas has granted a pension of
$4,000 roubIes TO the widow of Premier
stolypin. This sum equals his salary
as minister Of the interior. AS is
known. Stolypin declined any suple-
raentary salary as president of the
Council OF Ministers and his tenure OF
that post necessitated a considerable
expenditure of private income.
Premier Kokovtsonps difficulties with
the enforcement OF Stolypin's policies
has begun. He has been trying to
deal with a deputation representing
thirty-one thousand households in
Bakhmut district { Yekaferinoslay
Province }, who refused to break up
vidual ownership of land. For two
years these determined communists
4, have been resisting the counsels Of the
local governor to divide their lands,
and an area of 400 acres has been
lying fallow. Norwood grows on it
in place of crops. The deputation de-
clares that II the Government wanted
war 1t could have 1t; seventy thou
sand able bodied men could be mus
tered in support Of the communes.
The peasants had sold one third of
their live stock and were further pre-
pared to suffer famine and fight to the
end. This Bakhmut incident is the
most striking one in the carrying out
of the agrarian reform, of which
millions of peasants have taken adj
vantage, though the inert peasants
mass resents 1t.
Obtaining Pearls.
perfected method Of obtaining
pearls has been discovered by a Rus
sian scientist, Czeslav Khmelievsky
who Is In charge of the Ponevyezh
biological station of the Imperial Pts
cicultural Society. Fine specimens OF
unattached pears 3 to millimeters
in diameter have been obtained by this
method in from three to five years
No detail OF the discovery has been
communicated by it's author to any
one, but IL is supposed to be based on
the Japanese system OF artificial irri-
tation of the pearl moolusk by the in
PRODUCTION OF foreign substance.
The oyster gradually covers the
troduced through perforation In the
shell, with layers of pear matter. The
japanese subject 100000 oysters to
this process yearly on the pearl banks
in the gulf OF Ago, The principal
fault with their product is that 1t IL
generally found attached to the valve
of the shell closely ingrown or at
tached to the matrix by a thin stem
Such semi globular pearls have only g
limited use, for rings and pins. but not
for earrings or necklaces.
Mr.. KhmelievslSy has solved the
problem of producing perfect. unat-
fached yearls. A group of persons in
terested in the exploitation OF this
discovery has recently commissioned 8
young naturalist to go to Japan and
Germany to investigate methods II
ell eel y
an interest in the matter, through its
Piscicultural establishment at Nikolsk
A serious suposition exists thai
brook-trou harbors pearl-oysters.
spawn on it's scales and gills. 1t i:
Intended to take advantage of this fac
IN connection with the culture of the
fresh-water pearl-oyster in the Nortf
of Russia
In the time of Peter the Great thi:
was an important branch of state rev
enus, and thousands of persons gained
their livelihood at the Russian fresh
water pear banks in the North and
Northwest.
Not Much on Hunting.
OF late years hunting has counted
few enthusiasts among members o.
the Imperial family. Though the I'M
perial game preserve covering 10000
acres, and the supplementary stats
preserve of 33T, 900 acres are second Il
none in variety and abundance o.
game, the Imperial family's total fol
last year was 1857 head OF game
killed. including s bears. elks,
lynxes, So foxes, s5SS rabbits, 4SS pleas
ants. No aurochs was killed Of
hunted, presumably on account Of th'
severe EPIDEMIC which depleted thu
only extant herd of these animals IN
the state preserve at Bieloviezh. The
total for 1908 was greater than tina
of any recent year, with 1878 heaC
killed
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