The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 33, June 24, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and GirlsVarious
History
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 33, June 24, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Various
History, Modern -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature -- Periodicals
Dr. Senner thinks these people should be directed to go where colonists
are needed, and where their industry will have a chance of bringing in
its reward.
Under the present system the immigrants are allowed to go where they
will, and they crowd into the over-filled towns by thousands, and fail
to make livings there, while enormous tracts of fertile land lie waiting
for hands to come and till it, and make it yield up its bounties.
* * * * *
While we are speaking of immigration you will perhaps be interested to
hear of a fresh race of people who have just begun to emigrate to
America. The very first of these people passed through New York last
week, on their way to Winnipeg, Canada, where the British Government
has given them a large grant of land.
These peasants are the Russniaks or Ruthenians.
They are a people who dwell in Southern Austria and Southeastern Poland,
where these countries join Russia. They really belong to the family of
people who live in that part of Southern Russia which is called Little
Russia, and they speak the language of this district, which is known as
Little Russian.
These Russniaks are not little Russians in appearance. They are in fact
a race of giants. In the party that came over none of the men were less
than six feet tall, and two or three of them were more than seven feet
in height. The women were also very tall and fine looking.
The party consisted of nine men, ten women, and twenty-five children.
One of the number who could speak a little German said that they were
farmers and goatherds, and had come out to Canada on the advice of a
British agent, who promised them that they would be able to earn lots of
money and be free from taxes in Winnipeg.
The dress of these people was very picturesque.
Both men and women wore sheepskin coats, made with the hair inside, and
laced down the front with leathern thongs. Both wore rough hide boots,
the men having the tops of theirs turned down and covered with handsome
embroidery.
The women and children had white homespun linen skirts, embroidered at
the edges, and the men had trousers of the same material.
Neither women nor children had any stockings, and the children had
their arms and heads bare, as well as their legs.
Each man wore a wide, beautifully embroidered belt, from which hung a
long sheath-knife and two or three pouches made of skin, which held
food, water, and tobacco. On their heads the men wore broad straw hats
with cock's feathers stuck at the side.
The women had no hats, but a quaint linen headdress, with a long veil
hanging from it and flowing over their shoulders.
They were a handsome people, and all appeared clean, neat, and tidy.
* * * * *
Word has reached us that the great diamond belonging to the Nizam of
Hyderabad has not been stolen after all, and so Queen Victoria may still
get her present.
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