WISE JUDGMENT.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3035, 6 November 1878, Page 4

WISE JUDGMENT.

A Solomon has arisen in one of the Baltic provinces of Russia to reconcile a pair of wrangling women —fi<h-women at that. He is a Lieutenant-Colonel, assigned to duty as Chief of Police. He knew that preaching would be of no use whatever where the hearers were two women, who were cursing one another at the rate of one hundred and twenty words a minute, and who were only prevented from tearing one another's faces by the strong arm of the police. " Sou must be locked up in one and the same cell until you have kissed each other." This was invariably the sentence,of the new magistrate in every case of female broil which was brought before him. He knew that although kissing one another is a habit with male Russians, it is not so with the women of Muscovy j least of all with thn fish- wives. The women were hurried off; railed for a time louder than ever ; protested that they would die sooner than give this humiliating sign of reconciliation and then, after a few hours' confinement, called the latter, and informed him that they had kissed. They were informed that they must repeat the kiss publicly in the open market-place. A small fine was taken from each, and they were compelled, in the midst of their sisters in trade, to kiss each other three times.