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Show HOW KOSSUTH LIVES. - ' HOW THE KAMOUa IH'StlAIUASf' STATESMAN Sl'CNUS IIIS M-,. t'l.IXINO YKAHS. Kossuth, the ex-Dictator of Hun-; gary and the Indirect cause of the withdrawal from the Magyar Premiership Pre-miership of Koiomau Tlsza, reside at Turin lu a house on the Via del Mih'e. He Is now in his eighty-seventh eighty-seventh year, Uit notwithstanding ills advanced age has re Wined, the mo?t surprising mental and physical vigor. Tills is roIbly due to Ins regular mode of life. After his bath he takes a walk of one or two hours-duration, hours-duration, returning between 12 aud 1 to luncheon. All the afternoon he reads aud works in his cabinet, lofty room with v: ulledaud painted celling, and laiuttd in a warm r&i color. He wrib-s seated at a huire flat desk placed U-lweeii the two windows, with Ins Kick to Die light. The desk U cohered uith patiers mostly tied with red tap and carefully docketed for reference. On the wall are several good pictures, pic-tures, aud facing the desk is au admirable ad-mirable fill length tnrtralt of the general himself. Ilencath is a gift of the workingmeii uf Kiiglami a complete edition of Sliakcs care's works, enclosed In a cnc which i.- a miniature fac simile of the poet's house at Stratford-on-Avon. lie dines at 7, and after tho meal, notwithstanding the eight or ten milts which he has walked during the day, he is good for an hour's game of billiaids. At 0 he usually takes tea, and rt tirif to bed about II. With reft-rence to his bed it may bucf interest to mention that . be has rviaimil the old Hungarian custom of havin; the umcr sheet sewn to the blanket ami counter. jane. .V. 1 Wttntt. |