About Progressive People.

The wife of Karl Marx, after a long and severe illness, died about three weeks ago.

Prince Kropotkine has arrived in London, where he will remain through the winter and possibly longer.

Mr. Parnell is to receive an elder-down quilt in white satin that has been manufactured in Cork to the order of a London lady. The monogram of Mr. Parnell is worked in the center in gold lace.

Mrs. Annie Basent announces the publication of "God's Views on Marriage as Revealed in the Old Testament," specially intended for the enlightenment of the Bishop of Manchester, who has condemned her previous work on the subject.

Proudhon, who sprang from a family of peasants, has many relatives among the agricultural population of the French village of Chasuans. One of his cousins there, a girl of fourteen, was recently burned to death in a building that caught fire while she was asleep therein.

Capt. Trelawny has a rooted dislike of ecclesiastical ceremonies, and left directions in his will that his body should be burned. Accordingly it was taken to Gotha, and, after it has been cremated there, the ashes were inclosed in an urn and sent to Rome, where they were placed beside those of Keats and Shelley.

Carlo Cafiero, the Italian revolutionary lately arrested and imprisoned by the Swiss police on suspicion of being concerned in a plot of assassination of King Humbert, has been released in the absence if proof. Fears are entertained, however, lest the mercenary cowards and tyrants composing the Federal Council of Switzerland may expel him from Swiss territory as they did Kropotkine.

It will be remembered that the French government not long since menaced with expulsion Mlle. Paule Minck, a Polish lady resident of France and active in the revolutionary movement, and that she declared her intention, in reply, to marry a Frenchmen in order to baffle the government's design. She has lately put her project into execution by becoming the wife of M. Negro, a machinist in Lyons.

In one of the last letters George Elliot ever wrote occur these sentences: "I am very happy. We [Mr. Cross and herself] are sitting on a balcony overlooking the river. The scene is striking and impressive. Dark clouds are rising as if for a storm, yet everything is peaceful in the calm twilight. We are very happy. All that we long for is the impossible. We wish that George Lowes was with us." To appreciate the significance of these words it is necessary to recall that George Lowes was the novelist's dead lover and Mr. Cross her living husband.

John Ruskin has changed his plans with respect to the museum he has founded at Sheffield, and it is his intention to devote the remainder of his life to making it about the most complete institution of the kind in the world. He has decided to send there his unique and almost priceless library from Brentwood, and a portion of the books and plates have already arrived. Plans for the extension of the buildings have been prepared, and a publish subscription, which the Duke of Albany has promised to head, will shortly be opened to defray the coat of the enlargement. In the museum will be hung the large painting of St. Mark's, Venice, for which Mr. Ruskin agreed to pay the artist, John Binney, $2,000. The bust of Mr. Ruskin, subscribed for by his friends in the University of Oxford and to be placed in the Ruskin School of Art connected with that institution, was formally presented to the University on a recent Saturday afternoon, which occasion gave Dr. Aciaed an opportunity to say that, inasmuch as Mr. Ruskin had founded a school as Oxford, "henceforth the pure love of mature, the technical interpretation of it, and their relation to mind and to religion would be taught to all coming generations through the wide foundations he has laid.