The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

played this season with marked suc- cess. The comic opera was special favorite in Moscow by reason of it's unique staging, it's rythmic action, it's freedom from vulgarity and it's we'll balanced cast.
 Peasants of Pensa are hammering not their swords but their church bells into ploughshares They have decid- ed to sell all the bells for agricultural machinery and to devote the churches to schools.
 The Free Labor Church of Russia is proposing to sell all the church valuables, including the bells, for the advancement of agriculture and use the church towers for meteorological stations. It is asking the priests to throw off their medieval garb and "take on human form"
 At the Lyons Fair the Russian ex- hibits will occupy large space and will display flax, woods, leather, grain, tobacco, cigarettes, mica, graphite, match timber, veneer, bristles, horse hair, down, feathers, hemp, wool rugs, medicinal herbs, semi-precous stones, chemical products and Kustarney work
 When the dispatches carry the news that the Norwegian fish catch is large every student in Russia gives sigh, for he knows that again there will be herring in the academic ration. The Foreign Trade Commissariat will, in fact, buy this year in Norway and England 5,OOO,00O poods of herring. And this is only one-fifth the yearly pre-war purchase.
 The depletion of the forests in the Ukraine is affecting the climate. With the stripping of 275,000 dessyatins Of forest within the last few years one fifth of the wooded surface has been destroyed, reducing the forest area to 8 per cent, while Russia as a whole has 30 per cent area in forest.
 Moscow's four legalized gambling houses were designed to finance the children's homes from the losses Of bourgeois, but the Government is finding it so difficult to keep the workers out of them that a campaign has been started to close them.
 Mass production" of motor boat construction has been organized in Petrograd by an American. The build- ing of a single boat is divided into thirty-two operations and the assem- bline plant sets up a boat in two hours. Two hundred boats have been completed and two hundred more are under construction.
 Sevastopol factories have adopted a method of smelling metals in a Boulin stove without crucible. The stove is named for the inventor, working man.
 The Tungenes, members of the aboriginal tribes of Northern Asia, from remote district of Siberia, after council, sent 500 gold rubles to the executive committee of the Communist Tntarn tiOnaI at NOScOw
 new ice-breaker for the Caspian Sea which has been built in Petrograd will be sent down in the Spring through the internal canal system of Russia to the Volga.
 The Hamburg Line will send steam CTS twice a month next season from Antwerp to Riga and Petrograd. A direct Stockholm-P Petrograd steamer service will be established, also, next Spring.
 Petrograd trusts are making a spe- cial variegated cloth for the trade WlIH tHe LdSC duu are uoVeloplHS d special selling market, with branches in Turkestan and Caucasus.
 By recent decree the exchange of publications of Russia universities and scientific institutions with those of foreign countries are postage free, and not subject to censorship.
 The first blow has gone to Lap. land. At the Murman Fair demon