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RUSSIA’S FAMINE.
What a Correspondent Saw in
the Province of Kazan.
The Entire Population in a
State of Pauperism.
special correspondent who .
A is
(raveling in the famine districts of
Russia writes from Kazan as follows:
The Province of Kazan has a popu¬
lation of 2,100,000. Of this totftl
about 300,000 represent the urban
population, leaving 1,800,000, of
whom the Zemstov is feediug about
800,000 and my committee 400,(jOO.
We have bad much trouble in getting
at the truth of things hero. The
peasantry, especially the Tartars, arc
a lazy lot and arc only too glad to
avail themselves of aid. Practically
the entire population is in a state of
pauperism. Some of the villages are
snowed up, the peasants have eaten
their horses, and there is no getting
in or out. There are villages com¬
pletely cut off from all communica¬
tion and we cannot tell what is going
on there.
The Tartar population presents the
most serious difficulties. Their fatal¬
ism is the great obstacle to any at¬
tempt to stir them to activity. When
they have money they spend it on
dress aud pretty trinkets and leave the
future to take care of itself. Meat is
the staple food. The Tartars receive
horseflesh; the Christians, who will
not eat it, get other meat. Altogether
the town of Kazan feeds daily at free
public dinner tables us many as 5000
.people. The question that is giving
me the most uneasiness at present is
the supply of horses. The Tartars
theirs and the horses of
! >“vb mostly been
killed for their tuiies. The "g'overu-
raent is going to giant 10,000 horses
to flic province, but that will be very
lift!*
Mi Netchayeff has been sent to_ in-
it Kazau because the Governor re¬
td admit that such a thing as a
*The could occur in hi* province.
Mini#to m lie Interior had sent
to accompan tzeff an offieal from
hi« departmei-’jaiid there were besides
two young gentlemen and two doc¬
tors attached to the mission. M.
Netchaycff M illzeff signalized his ad¬
vent by giving 25,000 roubles out of
his private means towards the relief
of the distressed. An epidemic of
typhatd.icverwas raging, Peasants
were being brought iu in cart lopds.
The hospitals were full. In all di-
rectiouH the most horrible sights met
the eye. The destitution of the peo¬
ple is something terrible and the
streu£i are filled with beggars.
Considerable excitement was caused
recently by the trial of a young man
for,aif attempt to murder the gover-
nor. This deluded youth had heard
stories of the terrible privation and
suffering which existed and knew that
tho Governor had refused to acknowl-
edge the existence of a famine. In
order, as he declared, to attract public
attention to tho state of affairs this
young fanatic went into the audience
chamber of the Governor to present
a petition. As tho Governor held out
his hand to take the document the
young man fired a revolver at him,
without doing him any injury and
without intending to do him any, as
he avers. The prisoner has been
sentenced to penal servitude in the
mines of Siberia, hut has appealed.
The case has been hushed up as much
as possible, but tho supposed attempt
on the Govemor’3 life served it3 pur¬
pose, and the famine iu Kazau was
officially acknowledged.
Tools Used in the Pyramids.
During a residence of two years In a
tomb at Girzeli, William M. Flinders
Petrie collected evidence showing that
the tools used in working stone 4000
years ago were made with jeweled cut¬
ting edges, as is the modern custom.
He has stated his reasons for coming
to these conclusions, and proves in
very satisfactory manner that the
mid-builders used solid and tubular
drills, straight and circular saws and
many other supposed modern tools in
erecting that greatest of buildings.
He also shows that their lathe tools
were set with jewels, and that they
did work with them that would
the modern artisan. In one place
found where the lines of cutting
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. JUNE 30 1892.
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grstuite core made by a tabular drill
fojrm a uniform depth throughout,
showing that the cutting point was not
w/orn as the work advanced. The
regular io taper of the core would also
to prove that the drill was set with
jewels on the inside and on the out¬
side alike, thereby facilitating its re¬
moval. In some specimens of granite
he found that the drill had sank one-
tenth of an inch at each revolution,
the pressure necessary to accomplish
this having been at least two tons.
The capacity of the tools and the skill
of the workmen is illustrated by the
clean cut they made through soft and
hard materials alike, there being no
difference in the width of the groove
when it passed through soft sandstone
and granite hard as iron. Nothing is
known concerning the material of
which their tools wore made nor how
the jewels were set. The diamond
was very scarce at tiiat time, therefore
the only logical conclusion is that they
used corundum.—[St. Louis Republic.
Berlin’s Typical Street.
The Linden chronicles in stone tho
history of Prussian kings and tho
Prussian people; it also epitomizes in
a peculiar way the daily activities of
Berlin. It is significant that the beau¬
tiful broad street, so particularly
adapted for sauntorers, should on
week-days have scarcely any life until
the early hours of the afternoon. Ber¬
lin is then hard at work.
During business hours you will see
in Unter den Linden really nobody
except provincials, foreigners, and—
of tho city population—representa¬
tives of the wealthy class only, par¬
ticularly ladies who are shopping in
the most expensive places. Upon the
middle promenade there will bo maids
and nurses with children playing
around them, and upon the benches,
besides old. pensioned officials, tho
more doubtful figures of clerks out of
work and pleasure-seekers. But all
these come very far short of giving
life to U»o Wide, fine street, and would
in no way justify the excessive
strength of the armed force whoso
duty it is to maintain order and to fa¬
cilitate the movement of traffic. For
one sees, every ten paces, the dark-
blue uniform of a policeman j and in
the middle of the .crossings, sitting
their horses firmly as brotizo statues,
the mounted police, the pride of the
department. Really, these fellows
present a striking appearance. They
have excellent horses, strong, sure¬
footed, and swift; aud they are all
picked men, giants in fact, most of
them with long, waving full beards.
— [Scribner.
The Largest “Flume.”
The flume which conveys the water
from the mountains to the reservoir in
San Diego, Cal., is saiil, by those Who
know whereof they speak, to be the
largest and longest thing of the kind
in the world. It is thirty-five miles
long and is composed almost wholly
of redwood. In its course this mon¬
ster flume crosses 315 streams and
cauons on trestles, < the longest of
which is 1700 feet and 35 feet high.
In constructing this trestle 250,000
feet of boards and timbers were used.
It is known as the Los Oochos trestle.
The Sweetwater trestle, the second
longest, is 1200 feet long and 86 feet
high. The timbers used in them were
put together on the ground and
raised to their present position by
horse power.
Besides its many trestles this flume
passes through eight tunnels, the
longest of these being 2100 feet in
length. The tunnels are each 6x8
in size, with convexed roofs.
Each mile of the flume required on
an average 250,000 feet of lumber and
timbers of all kinds, that used in con¬
structing the waterbox itself being of
redwood two inches thick.
Building a water-tight box thirty-
five miles long over fathomless
chasms and through hearts of moun¬
tains is a gigantic undertaking, which
many believed could never be accom¬
plished. The result has proved dif¬
ferent.— [St. Louis Republic.
k Leap Year Proposal.
“Miss Rox made a proposal to me
last night.”
<*Ha! You’re in luck.”
‘•She proposed that I spend my
evenings elsewhere, as she expected
soon to become engaged.’—[New York
Dess.
“TELL THE TRUTH.”
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