. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across forits moderation. Many ofthe mujiks are sadly intox-icated Ijefore the setting ofthe sun at Easter, and theyare by no means the onlypersons who exliibit the ef-fects of too liberal pota-tions. From Easter and its kiss-es the conversation wander-ed to other subjects. Fredasked how the houses werekept warm in the intensecold of a Russian Minter. Some of the moremodern buildings of St. Pe-tersburg and Moscow, saidthe Doctor, are warmed byfurn
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across forits moderation. Many ofthe mujiks are sadly intox-icated Ijefore the setting ofthe sun at Easter, and theyare by no means the onlypersons who exliibit the ef-fects of too liberal pota-tions. From Easter and its kiss-es the conversation wander-ed to other subjects. Fredasked how the houses werekept warm in the intensecold of a Russian Minter. Some of the moremodern buildings of St. Pe-tersburg and Moscow, saidthe Doctor, are warmed byfurnaces not unlike thoseused in America. But thetrue i)eltcliha^ or Russianstove, is of brick, and isgenerally built so as to formthe connnon centre of threeor four rooms and warmthem all at once. In thehuts of the peasants the topof the stove is utilized as abed, and it is usually largeenough for three or fourpersons to lie there withcomparative comfort. Do they keep the fire going there all the time during the winter? Not exactly, was the reply, though in a certain sense they morning the fire is kindled in the stove, which resembles an enor. PEASANT GIRL IN WINTKR DRKSS. RUSSIAN STOVES. 205 moiis oven, and is kept burning for several lionrs. When it has burneddown to a bed of coals, so that no more carbonic gas can be evolved, thechimney is closed, and port-lioles near the top of the stove are openedinto tlie room or rooms. Tlie hot air comes out and warms the apart-ments, arid there is enough of it to keep a good heat for twelve or fifteenhouis. The port-holes must be carefully closed during the combustion ofthe wood, in order to prevent the escape of poisonous gas. Sometimesthey are opened when there is still some flame burning. A Russian willinstantly detect the presence of this gas, and open a window or rush intothe open air, but strangers, in their ignorance, are occasionally overpow-ered by it. Several instances are on record of strangers losing their lives bvouga
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