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Show A stop in a LiudaWo dsrcetion lias rioon taKon by Mr. Knun, of Kasnn, the well-known cunmiikor, who has given the sum of $500,000 as a fund out of which advances may bo matin to workmen who are desirous of buying dwelling houses, lie has also established estab-lished a school of housekeeping for the benelit of the daughters of tho workmen. A Kansas woman preHcnls the strange anomallv of being the legal wife of two husbands. Mrs. Allon, of O.ssawatom'm was divorced from her husband and married a Mr. KickottH. Her first husband hus-band has had the decree of divorce set aside, and now the lawyers aro trying to settlo which of her husbands shall buy her spring bonnet. The fortress of Tonl, it would appear from details given by the (iaulois, is to bo made tho chief place d' amies on the French frontier. New iron-cased turret tur-ret forsts aro beinf, constructed there, and as Toul commands the roads and railways from Met, to tho northeast, and from Strasbourg to the east, the imporlanco attached to it by the French military authorities seems justiiied. During one of tho snowstorms of tho past winter in tho Kocky Mountains, nineteen engines wcro required for ono train, which was made up as follows: First a snow plow, with nino engines behind it, then a train of nine cars with another live, engines, and behind this five engines with a gang of men to dig tho train out should it get stuck. The trunk of a rose bush growing at Ventura, Cal is said to bo threo feet in circumference and tho first branch it throws out is twenty-one inches in circumference. It runs over a lattice work, and though more than a wagon-load wagon-load of boughs have been removed it covers a space of about twelve hundred square feet. It yields thousands of flowers and is fourteen years old. An Italian contemporary gives some Curious particulars about dead and living liv-ing cardinals. Sixty-tivo cardinals have died during tho (Volvo years of Leo XIlI's papacy. The sacred collego is almost all composed of new cardinals. Only sixteen were there under Pio Nono, and ono of these, Cardinal Howard, How-ard, is seriously ill, ami several others are past eighty years of age. Tho youngest of the cardinals of Pio Nono are Parochi and Zigharl, who are each iifty-seven years of age; the oldest is : Mertel, who is eighty-four, and lias worn the scarlet for thirty-two years. A very old MS. has just come to light in Egypt . It is the will, written upon parchment, of a noble Egyptian of the name of Sokiah, in which tho testator states that he leaves all his property to his brother, a priest of Osiris. A second piece of writing was also found, in which Sekiah commends his litllo daughter to his brother's care, and in which he states that ho wishes her, upon up-on attaining her majority, to have full control of her own money matters. Both documents are drawn up in a most concise and lawyer-like manner. The manuscripts aro about five thousand years old. Few people who have seen the bust of Martin Van Buren in the capitol at Washington, in the corridor near the room of tho senate committee on the library, know that it is tho work of Hiram Hi-ram Powers, the famous sculptor. The bust was bequethed to the United States by a grandson of the original. Another bequest from the same source is a portrait of Mrs. Angelica Van Buren, tho daughter-in-law of Martin Van Buren, and the lady of the White House during his administration. The portrait is by Henry J uman and it will probably soon be placed in the White House, |