Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — A Singular Result of Emancipation. [ARTICLE]

A Singular Result of Emancipation.

Strange ns it may seem, the emancipation of the serfs in Russia has increased the number of wolves in that country. serfs used to act as their masters’ driversin the great wolf-hunts, which formed a national pastime; but since the liberation the wolf-hunt has gradually become unpopular, and consequently wolves are having a better time of it. Thus, M. Lazarewski, iu a pamphlet published by the Russian Ministerial printing office, estimates the number of wolves iu European Russia alone at not less than 200,000, and shows tfift while tho average annual loss of human lives in the years 1849-51 was only 125, the number of victims iu 1875 was no less than 161. The loss iu domestic animals is valued at about $12,500,000 annually, and that in wild animals at about $42,000,000. —New York Nvcning Post. A Fbench veloeipedist, M. Emile Houberden, recently rode 151 J miles in twenty-three hours, including stoppage.