Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1877 — A Russian Crowd. [ARTICLE]

A Russian Crowd.

Every crowd has a physiognomy and al character of its own, and after experience of an English or an Irish crowd, ofie. ta, rather pleased with a Russian one. Not that it is particularly clean or savory, but it is so extremely good-natured and wellbehaved. There is very little pushing dr | elbowing. Everyone is courteous 'to his" neighbors, and you are sure' iMt' to’ Aen any acts of brutality, or to incur fetiy Sari-’, ger in mixing in It. Smiling,'gbotf-na-’ ’ tured faces are everywhere, fia fftetfef what the rank or position, for goqd-Jiymor . is indeed the chief Russian virtue. And then such a curious mixture of people in such acrowd!—ffiftrchantsdnth loffjf, dark-blue or black caftans, reaching to their heels, and their cravats tied tight around their throats, not showing a shirtcollar, if they indeed have one; striut old?, women with silk kerchiefs wound abdut their heads so as to conceal tlieir' ' hafr; shoemakers’ boys and apprentices in What seemed a dirty muslin dressing-gown; hr-' tisans in their blue working-blouses; the ordinary town peasant in his red shitygud , high boots, and the mwthik, fresh from the country with coat of qndyed homespun, cloths wound round legs pt stockings and sandals made of plaited linden bark; here and there a student wijnt dirty shirt ant) long hair and mqe|,fpul fe finger-nails, evidently or the idea that neatness is incompatible with learning; there will probably be apriestnr twt>£kttd. a few soldiers.— Eugene Bokuyler, in Scribner for April. - »A