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Show A Russian's JCatltie and Drinking. Tho Russian cats on an average one overy two hours. Tho climate and custom cus-tom require such frequent meals, th digestion of which is aided by frequent draughts of vodki and tea. Vodkl is th Russian whisky, mado from potatoes uud ryo. It is fiery and colorless, generally llavored with some extract liko vanilla or orange, as wo flavor soda water. It is drunk from Bmall cups that hold perhaps half a gill. Vodkl and tea aro tho luscp-I luscp-I arable accompaniments of friendly as well as of business intercourse in tho country of tho czar. Drunken men aro rare. Russia and Sweden are tho only countries coun-tries in which the double dinner 1b th rule. When you go to tho house of a Russian, bo he a friend or a stranger, you aro at once invited to a side table, whor salted meats, pickled eels, salted cucumbers cucum-bers and many other fipicy and appetizing viands aro urged upon you with an im-pressi im-pressi venoss that knows no refusal This repast Is washed down with frequent cups of vodki. That over, and when tho visitor feels as if he hud eaten enough for twenty-four hours, the host says, "And now to dinner." At tho dinner table tho meal is served in courses, with stacks of bottles; here and there on tho tablo, of champagne and of delightful wines grown in the Crimea aud in Bessarabia, where excellent clarets and Burgundies aromado and sold for from twelve to thlrty-tiv cents the bottle. New York World. |