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Show liMIMI l IIL'sMt. HrifHTS from lluasla atale Ihat a dreadful famine prevails In that country. coun-try. Afewtlayiago, In the province of Nlihnee-Novgorod the government was petitioned for a loan of IJ.OOO.Oml to furnish the suflerlng people with teed and breadstuff.. The I,ondon Ttltgraph saya that since serfdom waa first Itgallted by Oudonotf, hunger and famine had not been to Intense and widest read aa they art likely to become In 1 991. l'.arly frost, dutructlvo hall and continued drought have ruined the crop', lllack rye bread hat risen In a few days one kopeck a pound. In lest than twenty-four twenty-four hours recently rye flour went up one rutle a quarter. The IlusaUu minister of finance his Issued a report on the condition of the country. This report slates that nearly near-ly all the central and western partaof lluasla, and In a large part of aouthern llusala there la no proeicl of a crop Ihlt barvral. A Kutalan correspondent writing to his t aper from Ka.troraa saya ho was met everywhere by men women aud chlldreu looking haggared and wan, thelrfaceifltthtfManddrawii nndlhclr eyra rel. Their food Is bread made of a mixture of oatmeal aud tree bark. The misery suffered by them It Intense. The AuUba, a Itusalaii pair, says: "Among the Indigent perwina who ve-cotveil ve-cotveil tickets for grails dlunera during the wook were n't nobleman and Til ecchnlAstlce." Another Itusalan paper siys: "The Jewe, b, are tuuerlng acutely. Tho tntmbera of the Jewish colony of Itovnepol, In the government of "ike-lerlnoslay, "ike-lerlnoslay, are practically dying of hunger, hun-ger, Tho shlftt to which the people are reduced are Incredible The nows-paiers nows-paiers contain ads ertlMiuents from parents par-ents olforlng their chll Iran lor tale. One such advertisement otters "a Utile girl of fi tn be sold." Hut the taxes are being collected Willi the rlgnl and regularity which bat elwayaeharaclerlred the Mill-latryof Mill-latryof Mtiancee. Thoao wsaants who are llnsblo to pay have their chattcUK thsy posstst siiy-U.tralncil." |