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Show T ITALIAN USURER'S ECCENTRIC CONSCIENCE. Cardinal Frisco, Archbishop of Xaples, has accepted ac-cepted the task of "restoring to the poor the money taken from them by-the rich,', imposed on him by the will of the late Filippo Florio, a rich eccentric bachelor, who died recently. He made his fortune of $4,500,000 as usurer for tho sons of wealthy-parents wealthy-parents inclined to be rakes. When he was 50, Filippo thought he had taken enough revenge on the rich, whom he hated as oppressors op-pressors of the poor, and made a testament, naming nam-ing the cardinal, a certain notary and a lawyer as executors. ( The bulk of the money goes to the Hospital for Incurubles; the addition of a new wing is provided pro-vided "in which only the poorest of the poor shall be lodged." Over each door the following sentence is to be set in letters of gold: "The money I took from the wealthy, who took it from the poor, shall now return to the poor." The testator lays a curse upon those of his executors "who shall deviate a fingers breadth from my instructions, or who shall use one penny of my money for the benefit of the wealthy or for themselves." them-selves." '. |