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Show BRAZIL'S POLITICAL TROUBLES. Tim lifl'reuce ExinViiiif letwrn the I'rNilnt mitl llin l'li!urt. Brazil is just at present the scene of a good deal of political excitement. Among others Dr. Deuietrio Ribiero, the first DK. CONSTANT DR. RII11EKO. Republican minister of agriculture, has declared against the present administration, administra-tion, and dissensions in the cabinet still continue. A few days before his death Dr. Benjamin Constant, minister of public, pub-lic, instruction, resigned in consequence of a disagreement with President Deo-doro Deo-doro about the filling of some third-ratt office. It is said that the ministers arc constantly exposed to mortifications by Deodoro'B interference in administrative details. If an office seeker consider: himself badly treated by a minister he goes to Deodoro, and very often succeed! in thus obtaining what the minister had refused him. Benjamin Constant had the reputation of having planned the revolution, anc ho was supposed by some persons tc. have secret ulterior views. He was the only minister who refused to be elected to congress, and many persons believed that he thought that the highest political polit-ical honors in Brazil are not to be achieved hereafter by means of parliamentary parlia-mentary success, ami that a few hundred hun-dred resolute luen at one's orders are worth all the orators in existence, if these were really his ideas ho studiously concealed them from the public. Tlie Bride of an Astor. For the third time in its history the matrimonial fortunes of the house of Astor are linked with a Philadelphia family. WfUiam Waldorf Astor married Miss Mary Paul, and Miss Carrie Astor became tho wife of W. C. Drayton. Now Miss Ava Willing, a belle of the Quaker City, weds with John Jacob, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. William As- V I HI MISS AVA WILLING. tor. The bridegroom is 24 years old, and the presumptive heir to a fortune of f70,000,O0O. The bride is somewhat younger, and has spent most of her life abroad. Her family has been prominent iu Philadelphia society for several generations, gen-erations, and is Quite wealthy |