Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-14


81, 900, 900 in the practice of the law and
as Lord Chancellor of England, set as
much value on shilling, when he had all
that wealth, as he had done when he was
worth only 5000. '
Lord Eldon, who was Lord Chancellor
for quarter of a century, and had
amassed at least $5,000,000, having to
give grand dinner to George ", went
to the unusual expense Of giving guinea
for fine turbot AS his wife was even
more migerly than himself, he told her
it had cost only half a guinea. At din
ner, where the turbot should have been
there was only Goldfish, which had cost
half crown. When the guests retired
Eldon inquired what had become Of the
turbot. The answer was: Lady Ellen
borough called to-day, and said she had
been unable to buy turbot; so gave
her ours for twelve shillings, which was
eighteen pence more than it cost. "
Eldon dared not tell her that they had
lost nine shillings by the traffic, besides
giving royalty mean set out.
John Little was no more notorious for
his miserly habits than for his hatred OF
woman, Of whose evil practices he had
as much to say as the husband of the
Wife of Bath. He even disowned his
brother because he gave practical evi-
dence by marriage that he differed from
him in opinion as to this point. de
owed his death to the indulgence of his
overpowering passion. Being ordered
by his physician to drink glass or two
of wine daily on account of debility
brought on by privation, he had himself
carried down to the door of his vine
cellar. He fetched out bottle of wine,
but the effort was too much for him, for
he had hardly locked the door before he
was seized with apopelexy, and died. 1t
was found that he had left 100000 be-
hind him, l40 wigs, l73 pairs of breeches,
and an endless variety Of other articles
Of clothing. 11
Dick Jarrett died at a good old age
(how is it that misers always live to a
great old age?), and when be died it was
found that he possessed property to the
amount of 10000. Three hundred
guineas were found under one brick,
His life was one of the most abject
misery, and one Of his latest complaints
lust before his death referred to the
hardness of the times, for whereas his
expenditure in previous years had not
exceeded six pounds, II had in that Just
ended been thirteen pounds. The beer
which had been brewed at his christen-
inc, to be drunk when he became of age,
he kept TO be drunk at his funeral,
Sir James Aowther, founder of the
Lonsdale peeraee, and worth goo, 0e0 a
year in land used to go to a little coffee
shop in the Strand, London, pay two
pence for cup of coffee, and then, being
very feeble and infrm, be helped into
his chariot Once he returned, and told
the woman who had served him that
there was a bad penny in the copper
change she had given him out of shill-
ing, and be must insist on haVng good
one in exchange,
The king of Patterdaie, whose resi-
dence stood at the head of Lake Ulles-
water, had good deal Of the jackdaw
or magpie in his disposition. He used
to put away sums of money in holes in
walls or trees, hide it under stones, etc,
When hie income was eight hundred
pounds year his expenses were under
thirty pounds; and in his ssth year,
when death was upon him, he exclaim-
ed: "Ah, what fortune a man might
make if be could live to the age of Me-
thusalehl' a'rr
A miser recently died in Paris, and
his ways of living were certainly novel
in the extreme. He boasted that his
breakfast never cost him more than a
half penny, and that it always consisted
of bread and butter, or bread and fruit |
This was his economic plan: Every |
morning he bought sou loaf of bread. |
With this he went to one of the markets,
and, if twas winter, he began by tasting |
the countrymen's butter. A bit OF this
was put in his mouth with a bit of bread |
deposited Somehow the
butter was always bad or had some fla
vor that he did not ike. Not to be rude
he swallowed it, but made no purchase.
In summer he Jared more lHEuriously, |
in the time of cherries, the
strawberries, the plums and the grapes.
" Have You, good cherries to-dayf
" Yes" "How do you sell themY Six
sous pound" "Can / taste them2
" Certainly He then takes two or
three CntfIltes tuto mum win q
ful Of bread, and says, HHeul heu they
are little sour, and so he passes on to
the next stall. Before he got half way
down he used to breakfast perfectly of
course the women who sold feuit and
butter at the various markets soon began
to know him, and, amused at his eceen-
Iricities. they seldom refused to let him
taste their goods He was then seventy
Ave years Old, and worth 500,0 francs,
having never hreakfasied on dry bread,
Or at cost exceeding a half penny,
The acquisition Of riches seems ffom
he beginning Of time 70 have been one
of mans universal passions. The mad
lest and the saddest lives have been
spent in the accumulation Of money.
\ ct there is no evil in wealth. II is not
money. but the love Of money that is the
root fevil
DisraeH will make 100000 sg n
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