Show RUSSIAN NOBILITY I GRADUALLY DIES OU OUT The czar and the more aristocratic 0 oi of his hil ministers minister are arc In dire perplexity with with regard to the increasing poverty of the Russian Russin nobility Some statistics which have been collected recently go to sho bos that within the last eight years the Income In come of this caste has decreased mo mor more than 40 per cent on the average and that In some cases case It ha has fallen falen more mor than 80 SO per cent The noble nohle land owners owner are I in a parlous state and d are f Into ro roI roh the h f land Joua banks with l their f posses 1 s dons In order to lo raise the most ruinous Within the under re 1 mortgages period re fe review view land belonging to to nobles e has been e mortgaged to the incredible ed gf amount n of off erg rg and it Is computed that th the thi value of the property properly In question queston Is nearly near near- ly Iy four times this amount amoun Nearly houses belonging to men of noble birth birt have been let or sold within the sam samI annie sami I time In the e army the number U e of nobles ls applying YI f for c commissions n has hag enormously n r decreased as they find it impossible to toj maintain themselves Their places a are ab being taken by the rich merchant emit an professional classes casses Chambers Chamber of corn com commerce 1 merce throughout the country state I ii in their reports that the number of nobles nobler engaging in trade is rapidly Increasing and that the idea of trade being Infra dig to a Russian s noble Is rapidly rf g No fewer ern than 81 persons I S o of noble birth have within the las last d deight eight years to be admitted to the bourgeois bour bour- class with the tho object of being re re from the class tax tx which now presses so heavily on them |