Good-humored Russians

Every crowd has a physiognomy and a character of its own, aud' after experience of an Euglish or an Irisli crowd one is rather pleased with a Kussian one. Not that it is particularly clean or savory, Viut it is so extremely good-natured and wellbehaved. There is very little pusliing or elbowing. Every one is courteous to his neighbors, and yon are snre not to see any acts of brutality or to incur any danger in mixing in it. Smiling, good-natured faces are everywhere, no matter wliat the rank or position, for good humor is indeed the chief Eilssian virtue. And then BUch a ourious mixture of people in such a crowd ! - merchante with long dark-blue or black caftans, rcp.ching to their heels, and their cravats tied tight around their throats, not showing a shirt collar if they indeed have oixe ; stout old women with silk kerchiefs wonud about their heads so as to conceal their hair ; shoemakers' boys and apprentices in what seems a dirty muslin dressing-gown ; ai-tisans in their blue working-blouses ; the ordinary town peasant in his red shirt and high boots, and the muthik fresh from the country with coat of undyed homespun, cloths wound round his legs in lievi of stockings and sandals made of plaited linden bark ; hero and there a student with dirty shirt and long hair and most foul finger-nails, evidently of the idea that neatness is incompatible with learuing ; there will probably be a prieat or two, and a few soldiers,