Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — Nihilistic Horrors Discounted. [ARTICLE]

Nihilistic Horrors Discounted.

Young Lady—“ What horrid people those Russians must be!” Father—“ More Nihilists arrested and hanged or shipped to Siberia?” “Oh, ever so much worse than that—a thousand times more awful.” “What; have they assassinated the Czar?” “That would be nothing to what they have done. No wonder they blow up things with dynamite. This paper says an order has bern issued that there shall be no more flirting in St. Petersburg.”— Harper’s Bazar. The average number of sentences of penal servitude. for the five years ending 1864 was 2,800 yearly; for the four years ending 1883 it had fallen to just one-half.,