Miscellany: Effect Of Frost In Russia

The sledges with oxenj calves, and gónts nave the must extrdördiiinry appearance.- These animáis nre brought to market perfectly frozen. Of course tbey nre suffered to Freeze in an extended posture, becnuse in this tstate they are most manngeabic. There stand Ihe tall figures of the the oxen, like bloodstained ghosts, lifting np their Jong horhs bround the fides of the sledg-e; whiJe thegoats Jooking exactly as if they wero alive, onlyVith Paint, glnzed nnd frozen eyes, stand threatcningly opposite to one another. Every part is liard as stone. The carcasses are ent up likc trunks of trees, with axeand saw. The Russians are particularly fond of the sucking pig; and whole trains of sledges, laden with lifant swine, come to market. The lillies starveling?, trungiogetlier like tlirnshes, ore sold by the dozen; and the long-lpgged mothers keep Watch over them a round the sledge. The anatomy of the Ruesian butcher is a Very simple science; for ns every part, flesh and bone, is ahke hard, they have no occasion to pay reerard to the natural divisions of the jointe. With the saw they cut up hogs into the uumber of steak, aii inch or two incheslliick, as wo doa rump of bccf. The flesh splití and slnvers thiring tbe operalion like wood: and the üttle beggar wenches are very busy picking up the onimal's e&w tlust ol of the sno . You do ntíí as le for a sleak, a chop, a joint, hut for a slice, a block, a lum, a splinter of meat. The same is the ca?e wiili fih. They, too, are as jf .put out of marble and wood. Tbose of the diminiilive species, like tho sn,tkt, are broujrht in sacks; and they are put inlo scales with ühovels. Tfie large pike, salmón, and slurgeon, every inch of whicli was once so li'.he and supple, are now stifiened us if ly magic. To protect thcm ('rom wairnth, in cnseof a sudden thow - for thawíng wonld essenti;illy deteriórate their flavor - they are covered wilh enow and lumps of ice, in which they lie cool enongh. It is not uncummun for the w hole cargo to be frozen uto one mass, so that crowbars and pincors nre recjnired t get an individual ñsh.-Kohld's liussia and the liussians. There are no snlid rocks in the artic regions, owing to the severe fros-ts.