Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1883 — RUSSIA. [ARTICLE]

RUSSIA.

The Emperor’s Coronation to Be Made the Occasion of the Grandest Pageant of the Century. The cornation of the Ozar, Alexander 111, will, it is thought, be the grandest and most magnificent ceremony of this kind of the present century. Beside the festivities in the Kremlin, the great fetes for the people will be one of the most interesting parts of the coronation programme. The enormous Chodynski plains are now the of the most busy preparations. Booths, tents, barracks, and all other components of a great Russian fair are being erected, with stands for the spectators, and An imperial pavilion opposite to the Petroffsky Palace, from which the Czar and the court can survey the entire field and the populace at their amusements. At least 4io,(;(w persons wfil be present Drink and food for the people wul be distributed from 120 decorated railway baggage cars, transformed into temporary bars and drawn up in one long row. Every guest will receive an earthenware fug, stamped with the imperial eagle and the date of the coronation, with which he oan call for his beer, and mead. The Masslennikoff factory at Moscow has furnished 400,000 of these jugs in dirt erent sizes and colora Furthermore, every person will receive two meat pies, candies, dried fruits and cakes. A gentleman in Hartford who lost his daughter last Christmas will not. in con equenoe of her expressed dread of being nut into the ground, suffer her to be buried. The body lies in the parlcr, and to it an undertaker frequently applies preservatives. Every midnight the father dresses himself and sits with the corpse,addressing to itwords of endearing affection as though his daughter heard. At daylight he goes and finishes h s sleep. Neighbors have tried in vain to induce him to consent to the binlal. H i wife has suffered greatly and he ha* at last oonseuted to a vault in his dooryaid, made easily accessible so that he can i till hoai n ghtly communion with his daughter’s remains.