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Show BUCOLIC THE RUSSIAN PEASANT Iflonsehold Patch Bilad. ' Coll eight medium-sizepotatoes, two carrots and three small red beets. When cold cut Into dice, add two prigs of parsley chopped tine. Thor ugbly mix all, with salad dressing. Garnish with thin slices of oulon and parsley. Will serve six. d Feather C.ki. One cup sugar, one tablespoonful butsweet milk, two ter, one egg, half-cucups flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake In three layers and put together with the following Icing: The juice and grated rind of one lemon, yolks of two eggs, and water sutflelent to make one pint. Cook until It thickens. p Golden Frnlt Mnfflni, With two cups of corn meal mix a cup of flour, four teaspoonfuls of sugar, two of baking powder, add half of one of salt, with a tablespooufu! of butter, cup and a half of milk, two eggs beaten separately, and a cup of any kind of fruit, peeled and sliced, or a cup of berries. Put together as above, the whites of the eggs folded In last. A part of the flour may be put over the fruit to prevent Its settling. Harper's Bazar. Date Waffles. Separate two eggs and beat the yolks very light. Beat into them half a teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of sugar and one of butter, and rub all to a cream. Add a cup of milk and and one and a half cups of flour sifted with a teaspoonful of baking powder; beat all till smooth, add a cupful of chopped, floured dates, and last fold In the egg whites. Buke in a waffle-iroand as soon as each piece Is done spread It with softened butter mixed with powdered sugar and the grated peel of a lemon, or serre with maple yrup. Harpers Bazar. ' n, .Spoils. Cake. One cup sugar, one cup of flour, three eggs, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one tablesponnful of cold water, flavor to taste. Take two sheets of paper, set your flour sifter on one; now put flour, sugar aud powder into It and alft them; set the sifter on the other and toss flour and sugar back into it and sift again, and so on six or seven times; beat the eggs In a bowl large enough to hold all the ingredients; when they are very light toss in the flour and sugar and beat up briskly; then add the water and flavoring; bake in shallow tin. This reclp& baked in a tin as large as a dripping pan, and spread with jelly as soon as taken from the oven and rolled up at nee and then wrapped In a table napkin, will make as nice a rolled jelly cake as you have ever seen. The Three Branches of the Slavic Population Gentleness of Character-- A Communistic System in the Villages-T- he Penal System. i Is diltlcult for those who live In western Europe or T in the eastern part of the r United States to realize to wbnt an extent Russia la sllll an agricultural nation, and to understand the significance of that fart. In Russia the large cities are few and far between, and, with the exception of Moscow, are almost all upon the extreme western or southern border of the Empire. Eight-tenth- s of the population la util! to be found in detutclud rlllagea of from 1000 to 1500 inhabitants, scattered over an areu much larger than that of tLe United States. Any speculation upon the political future of Russia will be futile If ? does not take Into proper coconut the nature of these village organizations (or Mira, as they are called), and the of the individracial uals who constitute them. The Slavic population of Russia Is divided Into tnree branches, the Great Russian, ;lie Little Russian, and the White Russian. Of these the Great Russian is by far predominant, numbering more tnan 40.000,000, rid occupying the whole valley of the Volga, a large part of the basin of the Don, and extending westward to the Dnieper and' Dvina Rivers. Tolstoy, with whose ' picture in peasant costume every one is familiar, is both physically ana temperamentally the typical Great Russian. With tils stalwart frame, Lis light brown Lair and beard, bis mild blue or gray eye, broad face and gentle expression, rml hit. belted blouse overhanging his trousers, the Great Russian meets you everywhere In the kingdom. Not only in his original iionie, hut in Vladivostok, throughout Siberia ar.d Central Asia, on the shores of the Biack Sea and the Sea of Azov, be is sure to greet you with the offer of broad shoulders or qf his swift droshky for the transportation of your luagege and your person. The Little Russian, next In Importance of the Slavic population, often has dark hair and dark eyes, supposed by some to have come turougb a slight intermixture of Tirtnr Mood; but In general his characteristics are similar to those ct his brothers In He la. Great Russia. however, cleaner In arpearance Srd manner of living, and his villages show slgrt of greater prosperity. The Cossacas of the Don and the Ural are simply the frontiersmen of Russia, with such modifications as border life produces In all classes of people. They possess a military organization, which is extremely democratic, except in the appointment of Its higher officers. Naturally they have come to be the chief dependence of the Government in preserving order throughout the Empire, their relation to the ordinary army of conscripts being something like that of our regular army o the State militia. We have much the same difficulty in the United States in suppressing disorders through the militia that Russia has through the regular, army. In repeated instauces our militia have refused to respond for the forcible suppression of disorders fomented by their fellow citizens. The refusal of Russian troops to fire upon a mob, and the resort to the Cossacks as we resort to the rtgulur army, are no new things In Russia. , A leak In a water or gas pipe may be temporarily stopped with a paste made of soap and whiting. Lemon Juice mixed very thick with sugar will relieve that tickling cough that Is so annoying. When the humors of lamps become clogged with char, put them in strong soapsuds, and boll a while to clean them. ; THE GENTLE RUSSIAN. Clean copper kettles with lemon dipped In suit and rinse thoroughly Nothing can be more erroueous than with clear water, polishing with a soft the Impre. alon which Is conveyed by doth. picturing the Russian as a bear," for, One of the advantages of chests over really, he Is a gentle creature, overbureaus lu a city bouse or apartment flowing with sympathy, and this Is is that the former may be, If of small the basis of his most characteristic faults. Beggars are everywhere tolsize, slipped under boils. erated. They line the approaches to Room having open fires need a atout and strtch out their apevery church, chest for fuel, this being the cleanest and most convenient way of disposing pealing handa from every corner. Nor are they rudely thrust aside by any. of either coal or wood. Tbelr very numbers indicate the conSmall cheats for holding toys are rec- sideration with which they are treatommended. Some of these are partied, The exile, as he starts for Slberln, tioned Inside for letter distribution and Is universally looked u;h)u as the more preservation of the toys. unfortunate rather than crlnilnn', and Needlework should be Ironed on the Is the recipient of many parting gifts. wrong aide on a piece of flannel, and In Siberia UaeR the free settler ever It should be kept long enough under leaves some bread and water outside the Iron to thoroughly dry It. his door that the fugitive from Justice A frying pan should never be scraped. may And refreshment in his louely Instead, All It with a little cold water night marches. It ras In obedience to which a little soda Las been added, to this sentimentality of the peope at large that capital punishment was and let It stand for several hours. Geraniums dug up carefully before abolished in Russia 250 years ago. Tbe whole penal system of Siberia frost conies and hung up lu a dry cellar by a rag about the roots will grow bet- hat really sprung out of the same naExile to Liter when set out In the spring than tional sentimentalism. beria, with a speedy release from those left lu the grouud. A housewife whose blankets always close confinement and a chance to re retain tbelr softness without shrink- trleve one's fortune In a new country, has seemed to the nation more numnue ing gives the secret. Make the auds than summary execution or prolonged in a tub with any good white soap, close confinement. However mistaken having the water hot. Dissolve In It tbe policy may have been, tbe Ima tablespoonful of borax. to It has been generous On a plain silk lamp shade for use pulse leading rather thau severe, while no one could in sleeping apartments, In an upper well e beforobaud tbe Incidental ball or In a dining room, dainty red evils wblvh have been connected with roses of forget-me-no- t could be paint- It. Now that the policy la to he reed in the centre for ornament, making the versed, requisite Is the ereca border at the top and bottom by tion of a first number of new local large Jolulng the flowers lu wreaths. prisons, wbtre It Is doubtful If the unfortunate class will be any better Catling Him Itowa, off than they have been. It Is InterDe Vlland (showing him hit chicken esting to no. that Prince Kropotkin, yard) "Yes. I take a good deal of satis- upon, being confined In an faction with my fowls. They more French prison, emphatically declared than pay for themselves. You ought that the general effect of the Siberian to read what Hecretsry Wilson say prison waa better than that of the ' hoot the American hen. prlmma of Western Europe. 1 The Russian neither hun.es himself . Tomwalker see you run mostly to black Ppuutsh and Cochin China, You nor any on else. One of the most' observed dont call those American bens, do striking , characteristic through many nonthi close, assorts-joulMJlrtcsgo Tribune. 1 BONANZAS uuuuy . ana a na anna tlon with him, first ami last, has been tbe unifor: kindness with which workmen are treated by ov racers. A recent trip down tbe Mississippi upon a river steamboat revealed scenes of and cruelty on the pnrt of the overseers who were driving negro stevedores to the utmost limit of human endurance, chocking every sentiment of humanity. Tbe harsh aud rasping tones, the terrible profanity, and tbe repeated blows upon the backs of the overworked no roes, contrasted In a forcible manner 'with tlio patience observed everywhere here. The Anglo-Saxo- n overseer Is a brute compared with a Russiun. These feelings of sympathy found expression In a striking scene which I once witnessed In a group of children' who bad come out to slide upon some newly frozen lee, at the beginning of winter. A number of children were barefooted, but those who had shoes, instead of monopolizing them entirely to their own benefit, at intervals took them off and lent them to tuelr less fortunate companions. ss the village government. Paradoxical as It rray seem, one of tlie greatest hindrances to progress among the Russian peas a., try is the e amount of liberty retained by tbe vll-lig- commune of Mir. Admirable In many respects as an organization Is, It is looked upon by ;be most enlightened friends of Russia as one of tbe main obstacles to progress In the social and political condition of the Empire. The Mir either owns or rents the lands wb.ch its individual members cultivate. Annually, by universal which the wonr-- who are suffrage widows, or whose husbands are absent, take part, elders are elected whose duty it Is to see that each family has Its rroper proportion of the land assigned to It. But, If there Is any dissatisfaction, each Individual has tbe right to call a public meeting and make a final appeal to tbe whole body ' of voters. But every bouse has Its garden well stocked v.itli cabbages and cucumbers and other vegetables, while the house Itse.f, built of logs and covered with thatch, .a admirably adapted to tbe conditions of life to which the peasant has become attached. It ia warm in winter and cool in summer, and provided with a large brick oven in the principal room, which wrll connerves the heat f mulshed by the scanty supply of fuel. The furniture Is r mple, consisting of a few tenches and rough bedstead and a table. Tbe oven itself also often serves the purpose of affording facilities for the weekly steam hath which every Russian is careful to take. In the winter the top of the own is a favorite sleeping place for the aged members of the family. After driving over a level and treeless prairie for many miles without seelnjf a single habitation, as oue Is ordinarily compelled to do. It Is a pleasant experience to come suddenly upon n village of. such houses, snugly ensconced beside soir-- little stream which furnishes n convenient water supply. Life in these villages Is certainly much less lonely than in the scattered habitation of our own Western prairies. The Mir, again, has the right and responsibility of dealing with Infractions both of the civil and criminal laws up to n certain degree, and is permitted, as the ancient Greek communities were, to ostracise objections! members. More than fifty per cent of all the exiles to Siberia have been sent there by vote of tbe village communities In which they lived. When such a vote is taken, tbe unfortunate member is turned over to the general Government and put under police surveillance in Siberia. Nor Is a criminal who hrs been sentenced by the courts permitted to return to his commune except by general permission. The Mir has certain common responsibilities whleh every Individual share. It owes to the gnceral Government taxes and military service. This I esseutlal to the maintenance of the unity of the Empire end to the fulfillment of all the higher aspirations of the Slavic race. Hence it comes about tb- -t tbe individual member of tbe Mir U not permitted to go and come as he likes; hut, upon leaving home, he must give a pledge to his fellow members that he will continue to hear h;s share of tbe common burdens, at least until the next ce list) 1 ,aken. He must, therefore, secure leave of sbsenco from them. This Is the reason for that Internal passport system which to outsiders seems so meddlesome and onerous, while, viewed In the light of tbe real equities of the ease, it is perfectly fair and just, and Is so considered by tbe moss of tbe Russia u people. The great comiuerclrl and manufacturing centres of Russia are tilled with peasants who have obtained ten porary leave of absence from their Mlrs foi the purpose of Improving their condition In these broader fields of activity. Often they continue for the rest of tbelr lives to reside In the cities, while cheerfully paying tbelr annual tax to the Mir. This, however. Is not regarded as an Imposition, but really aa a payment to secure an old ago pension; for so long as they pay this tax they can, if business adversity overtakes them, return and be reinstated In all the G. Frederick rights of the village. Wright, In tbe New York Evening Tout, n SOLD HE eye of one of' our Western contemporaries has been caught by the S 0 3 X X single line in a days mar-ke-t report, that no BelCommentgian bares are on sale. ing on this, It observes that the statement Is not In any way remarkable, for there never were any Belgian hares on sale as a food product, though three years ago it was promised or threatened that they would glut the markets. Just where a craze like Belgian hare mania definitely ends Is rattier hard to say, but clearly It has ended when Its fruits are no longer When ping-pon- g offered In the marts. for In a were asked first balls store that didnt keep them any more, it marked tbe end of that obsession; and this case Is like unto It. The cult of the Belgian hare certainly had some jotewortby features. The creature's flesh was to supply us with an excellent grade of canned chicken, or might be eaten under Its own name, for that matter; while its skin was the aw material for imitation sealskin. The amazingly prolific qualities of these animals, and the extremely small expense of bringing them to maturity, were always a .trifle hard to reconcile with the fact that they cost ten or fifteen dollars a pair. Still, prices were prices, and ttie only possible danger ahead was that the animals would in time become rs common as cats, and as chenp. But, instead of fulfilling its predicted destiny, the Belgian hare has witliiu a few years vanished from the ken of even the back pages of the magazines. Its fate is by no means unique. This unreliable creature is merely one of a considerable group of products, animal aud vegetable, through which fortune is promised auy one who has a little surplus capital and industry to dispose of. Among the- - may be mentioned tbe squab, the tulip, the mushroom, the spring chicken, the watercress, and the ginseng plant If it were not for these, the rural districts would never get even with the bunco games of the city or tbe salted mines of the mountains. Of course we would not Insinuate for a momen that each and every one of these is not altogether estimable, nor that large amounts of money have not been honestly made from their exploitation. But they all agree In this one particular: It Is Impossible to figure out on paper any way of losing money upon them, while it Is extremely difficult In practice to make any. Who, for Instance, has not contemplated the establishment of a chicken farm? One can begin his calculation on a basis of the minimum number of fowls, assume that they will lay only half as many eggs as such birds actually do, assume that half the eggs never hatch, that half the chicks die In infancy, that half tbe remainder are carried off by hawks before they are marketable, that an epidemic of tbe pip or other ailment makes a clean sweep of half the poultry yard biennially, enu tha the ruling prices for broilers are cut in two and expenses doubled still the calculation points unerringly to a snug fortune at the end of ten years, and three or four chickens to tbe aqrare foot of ground still left over. Similarly, every one Is familiar with the fact that an income of several thousand a year can be realized from an ordinary cellar, if only it be plantThe ginseng ed with mushrooms. craze, which was based, perhaps, on more alluring promise than eny of Its predecessors. Is only now passing. The Department of Agriculture, which had promptly Issued a bulletin warning prospective growers that the ginseng Industry was mighty uncertain, was loug In receipt of a half hundred letters a day from all parts of the country Inquiring shout the prosIf fifteen thousand a year pects. took tbe trouble to look for trustworthy official information, what must have been tbe number who took the ad- T vertisers statements for granted? For all the unimpeachable demonstrations of unavoidable profits, it Is nevertheless true that some men engaged In poultry raising enjoy only moderate wealth. We sre told by veracious niarketmen that by no means all of the mushrooms and squabs In the stalls were brought In by the raiser In tbelr own automobiles. We ourselves know of several persons who go on working for modest salaries, in spite of the fact that they Invested in fifty ginseng roots hack In 1902. These things are strange, but we cannot doubt the evidence. New York Tost. Matter of Status. The street was tlio football ground, the goals were marked with old tins. and the team were six little ragamuffins They were all keen, but oue little chop towered bead and slioul. tiers above tbe rest In point of athletic prowess, snd It was not long before be succeeded In shooting a very clever goal. One of those genuine sportsmen who love to encourage talent wherever they nmy find tt called the ragged little fellow. over. "Yon played very well, my lad," be said. "Which will you havthls box of eweets or slxprure?" Ruefully the disheveled hero eyed the silver coln- -lt would have meant a good deal to him; but he manfully turned front It. Lete ave the toffee, " he said. If I take the tanner I ihatl be a professional, and tint wont suit me jot a wblle."-- A tuners. A guv-nnr,- HER HUSBAND of an Australian Woman nod Bar Troablaa. recent hearing of a case the During at Paddington Police Court, Sydney, New South Wales, it transpired that the plaintiff had Bold her husband, against whom she was now proceeding for using threatening language, to a lady to whom she had given an agreement not to In any way hereafter molest the buyer or take any proceedings against her or Join her In any or proceedings In any court of law equity." The document went on to state: "In the event of any breach of this agreement by me, I do hereby bind myself, my heirs, executors aud administrators to pay the said purchaser the sura of 500 as and for liquidated damages. Despite this being duly signed and witnessed, the defendants solicitor alleged that the wife had repented of tbe transaction and was taking proceedings The sumfor a judicial separation. mons was eventually dismissed. At Munich recently a woman sold her l, husband, a to a neighbor for a small sum of money, and was pleased enough with her bargain until, on a distant' relatives death, he came Into a considerable fortune. Then she attempted to resume her marital rights, but was so effectualpresent ly resisted by her possessor that she resolyed to have recourse to the laws intervention. To this end she consulted a lawyer, only to find that, through some technical flaw, her own marriage was Illegal and her claim on man and fortune conse' quently Invalid. For 100 franc a Parisian laundress sold her husband, whose laziness and Intemperance seemed Incorrigible, to tbe proprietress of a rival establishment Under the new regime, however, the man was compelled to turn over a new leaf, and soon became such a model helpmate that his legal spouse began to regret the transaction and made advances to regain possession. These the purchaser resented, and, on Intercepting a letter from the seller to her husband, repaired to the formers house with a stick, which she wielded with such vigor that the victim's cries reached the ears of a passing policeman, whose authoritative appearance alone imposed peace. In the early '80s the writer was present at an Inn In Cracow when a woman put up her husband to auction. She herself acted as auctioneer, while the lot to be disposed of a strapping young fellow of not unprepossesing appearance, who was evidently not averse to the proceedings sat on a stool at her feet Bids came briskly, and the man was ultimately knocked down to a comely, if mature, widow, with whom he left the hostelry, evidently on the best i of terms with himself and his purchaser. Even in our own country similar transactions are on record. Tbe end of the eighteenth century affords more than one example of such illegal barter. In 1774 a Mrs. Crutley, of Leeds, employed the town crier to make public announcement that she would on a day named sell her husband, described as a good carpenter and a faithful husband, to the highest bidder. Despite the enulogy bestowed upon him, the man must have had grievous faults, for he fetched no more than five shillings and a gallon of gin. A slightly better price was paid for a Southampton man who in 1801 wak sold by his wife, a Mrs. Bruce, at an Inn in Hampshire town. He' was fastened around the neck with a baiter, which was held by his wife, who. having assured those present thnt her husband was faithful, industrious and reasonably sober, Invited bids. These came briskly, a guinea and a bottle of brandy ultimately placing tbe husband In the possession of the proprietress of a chandlers shop. At Manchester a few years previously a man named Trice was sold In the market place by his wife, who, to stimulate the bidding, first proclaimed his many accomplishments, whereof the wide range extended from bootmaking to flute playing. This Admlra-hi- e Crichton was tbe object of a keen contest, and it was not until a guinea, a npw dress and a pair of fowls bad been bid that he was knocked down. lit Story good-lookin- g neer-do-wel- Tit-Bit- nis Derotloa Saved Him. The prosecution of a "strict member of the cuurch and a man of most exemplary deportment for disturbing the congregation while engaged In divine worship, by his singing, was the subject with which the court had to wTestle in the case of State ta. Link-ha(59 x. c. 214. The report ahowa that the effect of the singing "wae to make one part of the congregation luugh and the othe. uia; that the Irreligious and frivolous enjoyed It ae fun, while the eertoua and devout were Indignant" It was shown that the disturbance wae so great that the preacher In one Instance declined to sing the hymn announced, that the presiding elder had refused to preach in the churr.4 on account of euch dis, turbance, and that after a sermon of especial solemntiy, a leading member of tho church had on one occasion gone to the defendant and specially requested him not to sing at that time, and In this Instance he refrained. Rut that, althought the church members and authorities had on many occasions expostulated with him, he persisted In Inglng, and declared that "he would worship bis God, and that a part of his worship It was bis to ling." duty He was found guilty. But tbs case went to the Supreme Court of the fflate. where It wae held that, as he had no Intention or purpose to disturb the congregation, but was conscientiously taking part lu the religious he was not guilty, notwithstanding the fact thnt a disturbance resulted. Thus, again, wae religions freedom established.-Ca- ie and ser-xlce- a. If kept going, the wheels ofTT travel miles in a year. 855 . In Russia, when a man beo,,,. baron, all his sons and grandson I1 "i become barons also. v I Ji Deafness Is more common h countries than In warm clime ear being very sensitive to atmospU changes. Two highwaymen, mounted on blj cles, have been sandbagging itj, with much success lately In SaQ yj, cisco suburbs. They ride up noiJ ly, do their work swiftly and tgJ easily. A member of tho Municipal Com of Saargeniund, Germany, who yawj, while the toast of the Kaiser was bi ing proposed at an wflclul banquet, h, been sent to jail Jor six month f; lese majeste. Cape Town (South Africa) Jewry n cently dedicated a new synagogue, magnificent structure, capable ot Ing 1500 persons. The president ot tt congregation. Councilor II.' Liberty J. P., is also Mayor of Cape Town. There are some heavy old weddh rings at Kirk Braddan, in the liJ Man, such as might be haudy wtt, the flustered bridegroom loses the ri: Leaning against the north wall some very ancient rings of stone. There ia an animal, hospital at Lot pur, near Calcutta, where there r usually about a thousand animal j: der treatment horses, oxen, mule, phants, dogs, and even sheep, all housed and looked after tj staff of eighty native "nurses" ud the orders of a British veterinary st geon. EDUCATION AND THE PAPERS What th Doe of Newtpapers la It a Sign Colt Of. The introduction of the newspa; as a part of the curriculum of tbe tory class of the Northwestern I. verslty simply means that regards it as essential tliat I: student of history should know wL is going on about him. The point of view cannot be saw fully opposed. Culture can hardly founded on familiarity with cam: happenings, but no more can it t on a basis of which knonto forms no part. Tbe present and tt past complement each other. To stand many of tbe problems ot iti period requires a knowledge ot fr mer times, and to appreciate bisbm precedents there Is no such light sj comes from the Actual experience tt: are being lived In the b. Trofo-Jame- s 's to-da- these living precedents, it: will become (he facts of later histe; are presented as In no other poss.t form. To know tbe world there is no is medium as to live It. Gothe said tt no one after him could know Euro;-swell as he who had lived throe; tbe time of Frederick tho Great it o until after tbe death of Napoli Modern histories have been largt written through the records of flypapers, and this is particularly tr of American history. Files ot newspapers are worth their weight : gold to tbe historian, for the facts tbe contain and tbe prevailing tnancr and sentiment they disclose. Wt charm Is there In antiquity that Is t" inherent In To those who are In the world. tt to-da- world of Is of chief ImportM It is no longer regarded as an W-of mental superiority to slight knowledge gained from newspap To keep In touch with humanity r well as to appreciate the deeper tr rents of history the newspaper Is sentlal. Kansas City. Times. y 1 A Straight Star. Frank B. Coombs was listening tbe words which were fulling in raf succession from the mouth of Wlllu B. Wackerbagen. An IncredsW look overspread Mr. Coombs' ft1 and then It gave way to smile. R acquaintance watched the exprs on Mr. Coombs face, and when k moved to within hearing dlt',,, beard Mr. Wackenliagen say: "I had a man with me, whs It." "Is he like Bill Jones, dead?" "No, he Is Jliumle Iluested, nl aat In the boat with me. Mr. Coombs smiled snd nodiH ths bystander to gather closer. Tb" he had Mr. Wackerbagen repeat ' tory- - "We went out on Lake Champ looking for bass. A school of P" came up. I dropped my lino I board with a bare book, and, believe It, caught a perch as dulf It atrutk the water. I repea operation several times and caug' Osh each tlmo "Without butt? v "Yea; without bait, nothing but cam bare steel hook, and tlio fish the surface, each seeming anxlou he the first one to be caught. Wo to drive the perch awoy, for w out for baso, but wo could not Mf, them. They bung areuml our h and wo bad to give up trying t m bass. Yeo, Jlnnule Iluested win you tho uute otory." Mr. Coomba hastened swsj tho lateot quojatloui for ryo.-- AN tl Journal. Tho fastest train In Europe Tctersburg-Vlenna-Medlterranes- l n press, which runs at an irons of flftj-twmiles so hour o H |