A foreigner unaccustomed to the hot apartments
of Russia will scarcely perceive the presence of _ougar_ until he
is already seriously affected by it; and in this manner the son
of the Persian ambassador lost his life, some years since, in one
of the principal hotels of Moscow. A native, however, if the stove
should chance to be "covered" before the wood is thoroughly charred,
will detect the presence of the fatal gas almost instantaneously;
and having done so, the best remedy he can adopt for the headache
and sickness, which even then will inevitably follow, is to rush
into the open air, and cool his temples by copious applications of
snow. Persons who are almost insensible from the effect of _ougar_
have to be carried out and rolled in the snow,--a process which
speedily restores them to their natural condition.
One morning there was a fall of snow; and the cream was brought
in from the country in jars wrapped carefully round with matting
to prevent its freezing. Hundreds of cabbages and thousands of
potatoes, similarly protected, were purchased and stowed away.
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