Show MORE MEN THAN THAU WOMEN So far as the returns of the new census ceo cen sus SOS show Russia unlike ever every other European European Eu Eu- country countr has a male malo population far outnumbering tho the female Indeed in certain districts an actual commercial value is set upon murin marriageable women and a profitable commerce iu in brides is bein being carri carried d on by enterprising peas peas- ants These matrimonial intermediaries brin bring a number of girls from European Rus Russia a obtaining cheap tickets tick ets for them theta on some gom pretext or another and anil play the thc part of father or guardian in n tho the ensuing n negotiations with the tho set tiers Their average o cash profit on ca each h bride is he between tween forty forts and ono one hundred rubles and in addition ti n to this they ret get et presents and vodka according t to the means of the bride bridegrooms The new census shows that the male inhabitants of St St. Petersburg Petersburg- outnumber outnumber ber the female by 1 The total population of the capital is now 1154 04 sho showing ing an increase of or or nearly 19 per cent as compared with the census of 1000 noo There aro are children between the ages of or 1 and 15 and of these aro arc boys and IG are girls |