— The married life of the Brownings is tha most perfect; example of wedded happiness in tha history of literature — perfect; in the inner life, and perfect in its poetical expression. — F. Gr. Kenyon. — It is a Gxcd belief among the Russian peasantry that throwing the dead body of a drunkard into the river is a euro euro for lack of rain. A case exhibiting this gross superstition was recently brought before the Criminal Sessions Court at Samara. Six peasants were tried and sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment for deliberately disinterring the body of a woman who had died of intoxication and floating it down the Volga, as a means of caus-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2289, 13 January 1898, Page 54
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112Page 54 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Witness, Issue 2289, 13 January 1898, Page 54
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