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Show j INTERESTING FOREIGN NOTES. Prague's new Arrhbishop in succession succes-sion to the late Cardinal Schonborn is xreiherr Leo von Skrbensky von iin!f 'e' Th? iS 36 years of apre and has been a priest for ten years. The Czech feel sure that no German will be able to pronounce his name. All the ext-prior e tv, l r,- Coeur Church in Montmartre has been completed and the scaffoldings which have marked the hill for. so many years will be soon taken down. So far tha church has cost about $6,500,000 and as much more will be needed before the decoration is finished. ihptanfn,LCatM0,,CS lironose to celebrate the nineteenth century by erectin-nineteen erectin-nineteen colossal statues of Christ in conspicuous points of the peninsula. Among the places selected are Udunt Soracte, the Grau Sasso d'ltalia d the toe. the heel and thlnstS of ?the cast u-o16 StatUeS ar t( be of SS Pisan antiquariesT who have bewi hunting n the Church of San FrancTsco for the burial place of Count U?oI ino have found a tomb containing the bones of a man and of four children and a piece of iron chain, which they think is the object of their search According to the story, made famous by Dante, the count, with his sons and nephews, was shut up in a tower by his enemies on a charge of treason and allowed to starve to death Bonn University has received a legacy of 1.500.000 marks, to which pet oiliar conditions are attached. On the testator's estate, at Honnef a "Lady's Home" is to be established, to which twelve Protestant ladies of the higher classes will be admitted. The reKus qualification. Is made because the testator tes-tator believed it would be easier to 212'inia.1.n ha, ony amon his pensioners, pension-ers, if they belonged to the same sect. The ladies must be not less than 30 nor more than 40, years of age at admission ad-mission and must never have married Six must be sisters or daughters of Bonn professors or other university officers, of-ficers, the other six from the higher commercial, official, clerical or military classes. They must all take up a course of scientific housekeeping, but are otherwise free to do as they please Poverty is not a condition of admission I though preference is to be given to women with less than $400 a year where there are several candidates Each pensioner will have free board and lodging and a pension rising from J150 to $2o0 a year. To show that he has no religious bias the testator estab lishes besides pensions, rising from $300 to $400 for the female relatives of the Catholic officials of the university Th rest of the income goes to pay salaries to instructors (privat dozenten) in th law and philosophical faculties of Bonn! "'''""" ""i"n.w-"'l"'! ""-i"'1 ' "" """ .m iu.iheui ' 0' |