The Great Russian Fair

The animal attondanoe at the Novg rod Fair is estiniated by tho duily sale K bread, of whish the bakers are bound t mako exact returns. It varíes in diff irent years froru orie hundred and fifty t ) three hundred thousand people ; liever Ijjs than the former and ncver more tlnu t'ae latter. The fair is said to have beon moro ve cw'ded than usual the past season, o w In ; to the belief on the part of the Eastr.i nations that tho interruption oí trade au 1 commerce in Franco and Uermany during the war would make a larger demvid for their commodities. Th sales and purchases during the eïght weeks amount on an avorge to, in our ourrency, from one hundred too)ie hundro l and twenty uiillions of dollars. A lare part of tho goods is disposed of o i twelve to twenty tour moniiis' timo, 1 10 bilis beiug met almost invariably with eutiro promptness. rom the fact fiat the commercial meeting takes place oily annually, trade men are ofton comp lled to buy and dealers to sell more Iargeiy tlian they would do othorwise ; an ! indeed the wnole system is so fraught wi'h serious inconvenienccs and disudv&nta ros, that the fair would not and could n 't bo kept up in a country thoroughly e vilized in the Anglo-Saxon sense, and f ïrnishcd with nineteenth century f'acilitiei. The great gathering at Nnvgorod eoul 1 not be except in a oomparativelv thinly settled región, whoso inbabitanta are ignorant, and indeed Mmi-barbarotn in mannors, customa, and mode of living. When Russia is bound together by teleÍjnphs ana railways, as she will be ere o ig, the fair at Novgorod will bfe supcrflu )us. Even now it ia losing every vear n it a little of its interest and importance, and will soon givo way to the spirit of pr gress and the more modern laws of exonange md baxter, as tho cumbrous and awkward towing machines on the Volga havo given way to tho compact and efficiënt stoaia-Jugg.- ttntwi Émn hroune, in Oetöber Qtit ixy. A citizen of Duimque, forraerly a farmer, w:is approaohed the othor day by a follow rejresenting himsolf as a former otK( er in the Unitod States Mint at Philadelphia, and offered a chanco to buy nickles at tne rato of fifty cents on the dollar. Tho old farmer "took the bait, w.ir led out iu tho country a few miles and uito a cave, whero were a large number of boxes. One of these was openfid and contained a hundred dollars in nickel. The farmer then pnid two hundred and fifty dollars, giving his note for the Bfime amour.t, and Uiok home ten of th" boxos of nickels. He oponed fchem in hig cellar and found that hey conliin -.l n thing but sand. Neither the ofBccr'g uor furmer's name hns yet boen reportad. A man in Galveston, tj)o othor day, who rfliuplained of being overbeated, nli ik yíHímanent euro by drinkjng six glaaei ' of ioe-water, without aid of a piiyajf'tTi. Hu was oopl when tho coraior cams, I