Show WHAT THE GRAND DUKE HEARD european officers diseased the capture of american cities tho grand duko alexis was at kiel i bo is a full russian admiral now anil the head of uio russian navy ho was a frequent visitor to the americans and like all the other notables talked with tho utmost frankness to our officers one day watching the columbia as she rodo tho waves as lightly and with the easy graco of a blue wing teal ho grand duke said to a captain im glad yon americans are rebuilding your fleet do yon know what most improved me when I 1 visited your country lot me toll you the first ahing was your wonderful national wealth be second the absolutely inadequate means at your disposal tor national defense you auro like a drunken man with pockets full of money and two or three hungry ruffians on the dark side of he street waiting a chance to attack him why do you mean to say began tho somewhat startled captain when the russian put his hand on the others arm and said twice u my career 1 have heard the project of capturing ono or two of your great cities and holding them for ransom deliberately discussed by officers of european fleets elioso countries biad hard work to make ends meet and they meant it too 1 once made a when after listening to a conversation of this kind in which the officers of four different fleets took part I 1 said gentlemen tho united states and russia are friends should she bo unjustly attacked russia would help to that the wrong was righted right rd ah I 1 cant tell yon where or who it was come over to the kurik the russian flagship and havo a of liuo washington post the legend almost every renowned man of antiquity in tho middle ages was believed to bo attended by a famili aris and not a few wora suspected of being in direct league with tho dovil probably iho oldest legend of which the faust legend is a continuous thread is that of simon magus mentioned in the history of the according to justin ho was a caliyo of bitton a in samaria ho wa nu daba a man of gibat intellectual powers iio was the father of tho school of the agnostics gnostics it is also report cd of him hut he could make himself invisible that ho could through flames unharmed could transpose matter malogoli maLo gold and exorcise demons in fact he laid claim to all heso powers and his name lived intro mouths of the people aa a sort of through many centuries until some other working personality took liis place at the popular fireside unusual accomplishments ments great erudition wore attributed tri buted to the supernatural influence and tho general disposition to superstitions iou wua the buo ouo by dogmatic on the part of tho church of ho exist euco of a with liis UTI berous household aud ou the other huud by tho magic aits tho practical sciences of which astrology and occupied mean pail man overboard I 1 the presence of mind of a certain well actor was always very re maA ablo but was never put to BOBC a test as on tho following occasion while antiuk the part of a birule chief be was being conveyed hi a veasel across I 1 the stage with his band of brigande brigands bri gands on deck beside him one of the supers whose duty it wa to work the waves under large sheets of gauze so unfortunate as to put bis head gli the gauze and to appear standing in the middle of the mimic sea before the full view of the and ienco the actor on the vessel without losing his presence of mind called out A man overboard I 1 and the astonished super was hauled upon deck by the pirates amid the applause of alio toie who imagined it was a part of tho play london spectator j inoculation bor vellow fever at the meeting of the american pub lie health association at denver dr mauuel garmount Garmo uit y valle of mexico read a description of his discovery of a certain cure for yellow fever which ha has used successfully in hundreds of cases his method is to make a subcutaneous injection in tho cellular tissia of the arm of a secretion tadeu from a yellow fever patient between the fourth and fourteenth days of the fever this effects a cure but the disease can be guarded against an this way just as smallpox is guarded against by vaccination baltimore sun |