Show RUSSIAN NOBLES BECOMING POORER The Tho czar and the moro aristocratic of oft the ministers are aro In diro perplexIty wIth regard to the tho Increasing poverty of the Russian nobility Some statistics which have been collected recently go to show that within the last eight years ears the In Income como come ot of this caste has decreased more mora than 40 0 per cent on oa the tho average and that In somo sarno cases It has fallen allen moro more than W 80 per cen cent t Tire fhe land owners aro in a perilous slate and are ure flocking Into the land banks with their possessions In order to the tho most ruinous mortgages mortgagee With WithIn in the tho perIod under revIew land belong bolon belonging InS ing to nobles has been mortgaged to the tho Incredible amount or of and it itIs itis Is computed that the tho value or of the prop property crt erty In question la is nearl nearly tour four times this amount Nearly houses belonging to tomen tomen men of noble birth have havo been let or sold within tiro tho same sarno time In the army tiro tho number of nobles applying ln for tor commis lens has enormously decreased as tho they It Impossible to maintain them themselves soles selves Their places are aro being taken taleen b by bythe the rich merchant and professional classes Chambers of commerce throughout the country state In theIr reports that the tho number of nobles engaging In trado Is rapidly Increasing and that the idea or of trade being bone beneath th the tho dignity ot of a Russian noble Is rapidly disappearing No fewer than persons ot of noble bIrth have havo applied wIthin the tho last eIght years to be admitted to the tho bour bourgeoise class with tho object ot of being relieved from the class tax which now presses so 50 on |