Show THE CZARS doings of gildi gilded youth in st petersburg deadheads and hard liquor r new york sun sum herr von Pros kowetz an austrian nobleman and travel r baa has just published a of stories iria Iri 8 concerning the bad side of russian life as he 8 saw aw it in a two years trip through the countr country y the most striking peculiarity of it russian oil railway travel he thinks is the large number of deadhead in the i high priced compartments of the coupes coapes between moscow and st petersburg he shared a first class co compartment to p 11 ram ent with a dragoon of officer fleer the guard took berr von ticket but said nothing to the officer for some time after they were left alone together the military man e eyed yet I 1 the Au austrian 11 nobleman curiously and finally aked asked did you really buy a first clao claes ticket von Pros kowetz confessed that he did Tooba dl too badill ejaculated the officer and your good money ia la squandered beyond recall you ought to have done one as I 1 did lid I 1 gave the guard a rouble and a cigar he ile is a good fellow and bother bothe r about tickers tickets Pros kowetz suggested that a dragoon officer might do things that a foreigner yea yes that may be so go answered hig his companion but just think at of the fun you might night have had bad with the fifteen roubles coubles you squandered on a ticket As the founder of the austrian ty for the prevention of Drun Drunk kness nega herr voa 0 we welz tz collected many statistics as to the amount of hard liquor swallowed by the azars subjects from jan 1 1885 to jan 1 1886 dussias Rus sias 2 distilleries produced hec toli tres trea a hectolitre litre ia is a little less than quarts of water free spirits other factories manufactured spirituous liquors fr ni in various fruits and others produced and purified brandy in 1886 the average consumption in russia wae was thirty two quarts of hard I 1 liquors to every man woman ad an J child in the country in the province of wilna where the peasants are famous for their temperance the consumption in 1888 was ten quarts per hed heid since 1885 the population of fit st petersburg has fallen from to this falling off hag has taken place among the working people and may be ascribed to the wretchedness of the quarters in which the workingmen at the capital are obliged to live one tt tenth of the working mena mens lodgings are in in cellars when higher up how ev ever erthe the are little better A work ingmans sleeping n 9 room has haa usually only one wind window w and is occupied at night by between ten and fifty other labor laborers ere herr von opinion of assian society is pretty poor the young men in he thinks are about the moat reck reek leaa less aud and extravagant in the tile world and are always full of a desire to smash things A man the therefore who gives a stag dinner at a mor cov cow restaurant or hotel invariably contract to pay for the meal meat in elusive of er crockery ek ery As soon as the laet last dish diabo has bas been sergej serve hn his guests begin to slam slaw things about the room and before the last bottle of wine has been served the floor is carpeted with small bits of the service the mirrors and the pictures from the wall in the winter garden the young bloods drive their sticks through the fish globes and hew down all the flowers and shrubs they can get at they are not altogether bad however for they pay the prop proprietor rieter lavishly laviah ly for everything they destroy another freak of the lively young men in moscow is to hire an elephant for an evening and get it drunk on champagne about six months ago a young blood beat the record for originality by giving his friends a dinner at which the only meat was the pork from a trained pig bought of its trainer by the host for roubles coubles rou bles at least that was the story the tile host told in good fath to his friends at the tile beginning of the feast lie ile learned the next day that the owner of the pig clown tanto had swindled him by substituting a common pig for the educated ani mal A lawsuit followed but before it could be d aided tanto and his pig and tho the roubles coubles in question got out of the country Y the moscow dudes and officers have also an overweening passion for the stars stare oft he lie cafe and for gypsy street sin igers gers whom they mar marry w with 1 t I 1 I 1 astonishing fre qi quency 1 eny kierr von Pros kowetz bellg 11 are ail all these stories of the tile czarn with perfect seriousness and presenta presents abundant proof of their truth his ilia opinion opi dion is that the half has not been told odthe of the un unique ilu e marneas of russian fashionable life |