Show POPE LEOS MODE OF LIFE although 1 alg eighty aty tiro yeara old HU health belles All Rumors the pope was eig 01 ity two years of a ajae V on march 3 2 leo XIII has now occupied the chair of st peter for fourteen years ani and although h there have been many rumors of the unsatisfactory state sta te of his health lately there seems to bo be no good g reason why he should not occupy it for a good many years longer long er says the P pall mail all budet bud li et his holiness mode of life is of t the he simplest lie ile usually rises at 0 3 in the morning the sacrifice sac of tho the inasy and then begins his working day for breakfast A ho he lias has a single glass of coffee tea or milk and after goin through his papers begins to receive about nine from that hour till one in the afternoon the throng of visitors never slackens lie ile then returns to lib hia papers and his boo books until three when lie he dines the dinner of his holiness is of tho samo frugal character as his breakfast a little boup two courses of meat with vegetables and dessert of fruit with one glass glas of wine after dinner lie goes out for a drive or a walk in thu tho gardens of the vatican lie ile afterward resumes hi his is papers between nino anti and ten all tho the papal ho household w assemble for the rosary and then retire to rest although the pope wears spectacles when reading liis his eyesight 13 continue contin uc 3 very good when V hen lie wali a young man mali he was very shortsighted but as 01 13 lie grew older his sight became better and at seventy it was better than when lie he 1 w as twenty years of age A bon mot of his holin holiness at last Z christmas christinas 11 reception may not have boon been forgotten I 1 it was addressed to cardinal Cardin LI iarrocchi Par rocchi who iii id believed in miny quarten quart cri to bj bc heir presumptive to ane chair of J st peter when the cardinal had vaulted hini him a happy now new year the pope said with a twinkle in his hi 5 eye thank you thank you your eminence I 1 hope to be still here on tho eve of year to receive once anc more your sin sincere ere congratulations |