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Show A BULLET-PROOF OINTMENT. It Commands a High Price Among Russian Soldiers. A number of reservists frpm Pore, on entraining at Tchclnblnsk, for tlm tar past, were observed to have In their possession small bottles, of tho kind provided by tho stato for vodka, filled with a curious greenish substance sub-stance A tow days later somo soldiers were noticed dyed n deep ollvo green, and an Inquiry was held. Somo of the soldiers admitted that beforo leaving their village a wlso woman named Lletkln had sold them, at a rouble a bottle, it holy ointment, tho chief Ingredient of which was marrow taken from! thb bones of saints burled at Solovlots monastery, near Archangel. Tho ointment rendered anyono smeared with It bullet-proof, and ns tho soldiers expected that tho Japanese Japan-ese might attack their train at any moment they woro preparing. It appeared that tho less fortunato soldiers had begged to bo allowed to buy somo of tho ointment, nnd tho further tho train got east tho higher roso tho price. London Mirror. |