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Show Such an animal ad an "honest thief" is not known, yet he exists. Four years ago he stole from a Mr. Gibbons, conductor, of Alton, England, Eng-land, a box containing 155. A tew days ao Mr. Gibbons received from Australia a package, which, upon being opejiod, was found to contain bis lost cash box with the amount of money originally stolen and interest at ttie rate ot 15 per cent. It was accompanied by a letler stating that the writer had taken the money under presa'ire of misfortune; but with its assistance and by induitry be had succeeded iu making for himself a competency. He gave no name or address, but requested that the receipt of the package be acknowledged in the Melbourne Argun. j Of tue sixty-one millions of people i in European-Russia only five and a half million, ot 9 per cent, can read and write. These reside chiefly in and around the great towns and cities, and it is from their ranks that I the nihilists recuii, while the fifty millions of ignorant country peasants oro mofatiy blind ad- berfcn'.s of the Czar and loyal to an intense degree. The educated classes furnish the conspirators and disorganizes. dis-organizes. Solovieff, vrho attempted to assassinate the Emperor Alexauder, waB a teacher. Sergi N etchaiefi, riugloader of the conspiracy that brok out in 1871, was a professor in the university of Moscow, and it wab the univeriitiea of Kieff, Kaiin, Dor-pat, Dor-pat, Moscow and St. Petersburg which furnished the participants in the out break of 1872. In Russia, ovidsntly, with knowledge comes understanding of the defects and iniquities of the government and the enormities drmo by the police "cameriila," but at the same time a lack of the proper knowledge knowl-edge of the means to the end of i t-taining t-taining constitutional government in the interest ol the people. |