Show RUSSI RUSSIAN RUSSIA A IV newspapers contain little bevre and not ET ear to find on the streets at st petersburg it is possible with an infinite deal of searching and maneuvering neu vering to purchase a journal in the th streets if you search long and care i fully enough you will no doubt ui in I 1 course of time come upon a man at one on I 1 of the street corners rs with a leather I 1 bag 1 in which if you look close enough you will no doubt discover a sheaf ot of I 1 odd journals this scarce and undemonstrative inah bidual corresponds to d our newspaper boy and of him if you yol are literarily litera rily inclined you may inay chase your news but in moscow a very ey different state of affairs prevails ails there you might go searching and M maneuvering vering all day without discovering di sc uny traces of a vender of news I 1 believe there is ig QI of I 1 there was lu ln days day gone by a person in moscow N I 1 0 cow w wished d to play that important role indeed to be accurate w c U rate I 1 myself caught a glimpse of the tbt strange creature standing standi Dg outside the door of one of the hotels but his aspect was so wretched and the ap appearance pe P e ar of chiq hi journals so moldy that I 1 involuntarily abstained from making I 1 a purchase no doubt I 1 said to myself I 1 the fellow has tramped all the way from st petersburg a distance of amiles miles with a stock of last years returns and hopes s to get rid of them in illiterate moscow I 1 russian journalists seem to have bay very primitive notions on the subject f of the commercial conduct of thel newspapers they appear to take very little pains to get their journals properly distributed and a small local circulation seems to represent the height of their commercial ambitious A few of the best class journals such guch for instance as the neva which Is ivery very tolerably printed and enjoys wide circulation are undoubtedly exceptions to the rule mentioned alove above I 1 but such instances of business ability combined with energetic and effective literary and artistic management are I 1 few and far between pall pali mall ga zette |