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Show Keprracntlng Influent. At the last fancy dress ball, attended by the nobility of St. Petersburg, the palm was awarded to a young lady at tired to represent the influenza. She was dressed in oriental fashion, and wore on her head a tall cap inscribed with the names of the principal doctors who h3ve studied the disease. The map of Europe was depicted on her skirts, and a gigantic spider occupied a prominent position on the shores of tbo Baltic; the lady's fat waa covered with the names of those chemists who welcomed the arrival of the fatal scourge. During the evening she distributed leaflets with poems extolling extoll-ing its virtues; fever, pains in the head, aching of the bones, etc. II Caff aro. |