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Show Strange Freak of Fortune. A few years ago when Czar Alexander Alexan-der III. was alive, and bis family Included In-cluded thrco sons, It almost seemed boyond a doubt that tho succession to tho throno was secured to his descendants, descend-ants, and that it could hardly pass to his brother or nephew. However, the eldest son, now reigning as Nicholas II., though married, ls tho father ol daughters only; tho second son is dead, and tho third son, now twenty-flvo twenty-flvo years of age, Is unmarried and apparently content to remain so. |