How Rylaieff Died

-Frequent ;ts Nihilifit executions have been during the last few years, the victima are happily of a different order from those of the days of Nicholas. Uut many men still living can remetnber a bleak December morning in st. Petersburg when a dozen of the most briliiant men in ün.ssia were led out to die upon one gallows, includingPeatal, the composerof thfl famous waltz, and RylaiefT, one of the leading native poets of lii.s time. The lalter's end was inarked by a very striking episode. Ile had insisted on dying before his frind Postal in order to show the latter how calmly he could meet lus (ate; but the rope broke, and he eaine to the ground still alive.