Fires in Russia.

Fires in Russia.

Every summer one hears of an appallingly large number of conflagrations in the Russian provinces. No one there appears in the least surprised. If you call your neighbors" attention to these numerous reports of extensive fires, of the whole or partial destruction of villages, he will quite unconcernedly observe that it is the " fire season,” and, with a characteristic shrug of the shoulders he implies, if he does not put the query verbally : “ What else do you expect, what would you have?” Thus, for instance, the official journal of the government of Pcnsa quite prosaically announces that the “ fire season ” has commenced in that province, and goes on to relate, in curt phrase, that in the village of Agafonoflkanine and in Koshefika, ninety peasants’ homesteads have been burnt. On the following tlay twenty-one houses were destroyed by fire in the village of Yelesina, in one of which a child was burnt to death. A couple of days later fifty-five houses and twenty-one granaries were totally consumed in another large village named Terismorg. The last mentioned fire caused damage to the amount of 12,000 roubles.

Every summer one hears of an appallingly large number of conflagrations in the Russian provinces. No one there appears in the least surprised. If you call your neighbors" attention to these numerous reports of extensive fires, of the whole or partial destruction of villages, he will quite unconcernedly observe that it is the " fire season,” and, with a characteristic shrug of the shoulders he implies, if he does not put the query verbally : “ What else do you expect, what would you have?” Thus, for instance, the official journal of the government of Pcnsa quite prosaically announces that the “ fire season ” has commenced in that province, and goes on to relate, in curt phrase, that in the village of Agafonoflkanine and in Koshefika, ninety peasants’ homesteads have been burnt. On the following tlay twenty-one houses were destroyed by fire in the village of Yelesina, in one of which a child was burnt to death. A couple of days later fifty-five houses and twenty-one granaries were totally consumed in another large village named Terismorg. The last mentioned fire caused damage to the amount of 12,000 roubles.