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CT his affairs had been unable to honor
| a draft fer the paltry sum CT $4,000,
and within a few hours the entire edi-
flee so iabori0usly constructed by his
father crumbled to dust, the firm of
von DERIVES and all CT the great en-
terprises associated therewith being
involved in ruin due to the eXtrava-
gance OF Paul Won DERIVES, and to the
business inexperierce CT his factor and
representative, Colonel Pomehanzew
Today Handsome Paul" as tbs
young guardsman used TO be nick
named, finds himself penniless, and in
! asmuch as little or nothing appears tc
/ have been saved from the wreck CT his
fortune, il is quite possible that ne
/ may, like that other Russian guards
man who squandered his fortune.
/ mandy, Prince HIkoff. emigrate to
the United States in order to carve out
a new career fer himself, and perhaps
return in course CT time 80 his own
country like the prince, to reap the
fruits Of his American labors and ex-
/ perience in the shape of q seat in the
cabinet as minister of railroads and
public works.
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The poor old grand duke CT Luxem-
berg is certainly one If the most IN
lucky men in existence. It was but a
year age, that, at the age Of 81, he frac-
tured his thigh by slipping and falling
on a polished wood floor. A month
ago he was thrown cut of his carriage
and badly shaken up through his
horses becoming scared by a collision
with an awkward bicyclist, and he had
hardly recovered from the effects Of
this mishap than the team of four
horses, harnessed to his Daumont. once
L.
pitched him inso a ditch, infiicting
wounds to the scalp and face, and ssri-
ously injuring his back.
There are some superstitious people
who 'ascribe his persistent i'll luck 30
the fact that his vast wealth originated
with his former ownership CT the pub
lie gambling tables at Wiesbaden,
when he was still reigniHg duke of
Nassau. He was deprived OF his duchy
of Nassau by the Prussians in the war
of 1866, and compelled to seek refuge
in Austria. If he is today once more
re:gning sovereign it is because he in
herited the sovereignty cf the grand
duchy Of Gutenberg fr'om his kins-
man the late king of Holland
Even in this succession he was pur-
sued by i'll luck, and one of the oldest
incidents that can be conceived oc-
CURED in connection with his acces- |
sion. The old king of Holland, it may
be remembered, fell into kind of |
cataleptic trance about a year bsfcra |
his demise, which was of such a char
acter as to lead even his medical az !
PENDANTS to believe he was dead In /
fact, his death was officially annOunc- !
ed, all the churches and public edifices
in the Netherlands were decked out |
with emblens CT mourning, while the
6X-duke OF Nassau had already arrived |
in Gutenberg, taken the oath to OBJ
serve the constitution. and assumed
possession OF the Nuremberg throne,
when suddenly it was discovered that
old King William was not dead, but
had returned to life in a very bad and
irritated frame Of mind In fact his
fury knew no bounds when he learned
that his cousin of Nassau had already
installed himself at Gutenberg. and
Duke Ado1ph, who had made his en-
trance into the capital Of the grand
duchy in a carriage and six, with all
the trappings of royal state, slipped
away by night in a hired trap and re-
turned TIC Austria, where he remained
until the king of Holland died, full
twelve months later. Once bitten,
twice shy, and this time the duke re-
fused to bulge fem Vienna until he
had obtained the most positive assur-
ance that his royal cousin Of Holland
was safely entombed in tbs old church
at Delft which serves as the burial
place OF the princes of the house, c:
Orange and of Observation-Disclosures de
Fontenoy in Washington Post.
"Fraulein, your eyes do not match
For mercy's sake, what do you