Show howl HOW THEY LIVE IN ST petersburg FRUITS ETC an american who has spent some years traveling in europe writes to the new york times 1 11 the most exaggerated accounts pre prevail vail vall in the united stats states and else eise elsewhere wherein in relation to the cost of bf living in st Peters petersburg bard barg it is quite true that many articles cost enor enormous mou s price prices s but they are ure the superfluities andhor and not the necessaries of life the markets here are numerous and excellent furnishing an au abundance ancil of meats and fruits at very reasonable rates even gloves silks and imp imported orfed dry goods and cloths claths generally cost very little if any more in st petersburg than in new york comparatively the most expensive artic lesof of consumption are tobacco and cigars asgood algood havana cigar char cannot be purchased fr for less lebi than twenty cents the reports of the high bloh cost of living in in russia arise from the th prodigality of wealthy russians and the disadvantages under which foreigners who visit this country labor in n not understanding the language and knowing nothing of the people the same may be said of all countries experience must be be paid for iri in some parts of italy one m may ay live luxuriously on a few hundred dollar dollars sper per annum yet nowhere in the world perhaps is the inexpert inex peri perl ence d stranger BO so imposed upon and fleeced as in iry the ibe italian states I 1 repeat the expense of living quietly and unostentatiously in st petersburg ia is not greater than in new york if a a foreigner come comes here shere and attempts te to rival in style and profusion the grands seigneurs seigne urs uri of the empire who spend hundreds of thousands a year and can do is a very different matter quite une outre paire de do manches it is is another mistake to suppose that behave we have no good fruit I 1 have found here an abundance of appleb apples pears plums strawberries raspberries rasp berries etc at moderate prices and of excellent quality I 1 have tai taC tasted sted too within a week past something which ich during a residence of nearly four years in europe I 1 had not before seen a lne hile large watermelon worthy to have ripened on the richest 1 I 1 sand hill in jersey |