The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-05-15

The Richmond Enquirer compares
some o. the modern nIllioBa.ies with
those of the ancient times, when a for
tune was spent for a single dish. or
an ordinary supper.
Why, what is Tweed, or Stewart, OF
MIR. Loder, or Belmont. or the Roth
schilds. or the Marquis of Westminster,
to Ptolomy PhIiaoeli,hus, Of Egypt, ubo
amassed little property of $3.50 Co.,
| no.
And which of our extravagant young
"a e, in tI.r 81 hoa>ted ime-. ever gave
her lover, as Cleopatra did. pearl d.. :
solved in vinegar Tor undis<olyedj worth
$40. 600? That's half the expense of Miss
/ Tweed s wedding. at 3 dash and wo1ld
dress one of our Baltimore and Washing
ton bellies for foIty years Then there
| were Panlina. one of The ton in Rome.
who used to wear jewels. when she re-
| turned her visits, worth $500 200.
Well. they boast nf Mr.. Stewart
marble palace. on Thirf' fourth street
and Fiji avenue. We will suppose that
'hi> hnu-e. which is abour tie est they
have in y " York. cast So Otn ORu.
Well Cicero. VIII" was poor man. ave
81 50. 600 for his house, and q ..li.l> Dr. d
$3.50, 900 for his establish ent or the
Pa inc; while Ne~sala gave S2,0W.-
ono for the honse Of Anthony.
Seneca. who was Just plain rhiloso-
nher Ike Ir. G-enicv. was worth - :
600 600. Tiberius left a property of
-, 900 OnO.
wy they talk aboif ;, mans failing,
N New York for million. = IT l. "
big thing Ceeser. tefore he entere =
RI any Office when he was a ynunr GER
rieman in private lif. owned $40 o.
900, a"d he purchase the FRI nd IL of
a quae~tnr for 81 500 010. Mark Anth.
nv owed 81 500 000 on the Tdes of MarcE,
nd he paid it hef,re the Kalends #
March. This was nothing he sauan-
dered S720.an0, 600 of the pnbiis. money
Major Hodges deiaEcation being IL
he cnntemptible sum Of s45nocO.
And those fellows lived we'll Esopu
who WAS play actor. paid $500 900 fiiu
single dish Caligula spent $500 Onp
OF supper Their wines were ftea
kept for two ages, and some of them ID
for $50 an ounce. They roasted hogs
whole a. their bsnquets. They were
fond of ram S head pie and pastry strfi-
ed with raisins and nuts Dishes were
made of gold and silver, set with preci-
rus stones. The beds of HeIioe abalus
we're of solid silver, his table and plates
we're of pure gold. and his mattresses
covered with carpets of cloth-nf gold
were stuffed wi down from under tn
wing fthe p ridge.
1t took $40 600 year to keep up y @
dignity of Roman Senator and some
them spent SIS 600 600 year
Cicero and Pnmpey dropped in ont
day on Lucullus-ncbody at home bu.
the family-and that family dinner cos'
1000.
But We talk Of population We boast
If l. 'ndon and New York. Rome had
nnnula'ion of hetween 1000 900 and 4.
600 600 The wooden theater Of Scar
rus contained 5000 sears; the Coli
am. bnilt of stone. would seat $1,000.
and offered standing space for $1,000
more. The Circus Maximus (thInk of
1t old Jrhn Robinsnni1 would holu
3S5 600 spectators. There we're in th.'
city 600 public baths those of Diocle-
tan alnne accommodating 5000 hather
Even in the sixth century, after Rome
had been sacked and plundered by the
Gnths and Vantlals, Zachariah, travel
or asserts that there we're 3S4 >,acious
streets. 80 golden statues of the gods,
IS 097 palaces IL 052 foun' aim aud
3 7S5 bronze statues of the empcror- aud
generals.
Nor have We SPACE to refer to Thebes,
in Egypt (which had a popu alton of
, 500 0Ool. and that noble pala e With
It's grand cnlums, whose cornices were in
laid with ivory mountings or sheathed
with beaten goli-nor Alexandria whose
ANIMAL port dues were Sc 600. 600. ana
whose library. in an age when books were
rare contained 7On.000 volumes nor II
Gamma the second city of Italy. nor tn
Rh,des. and its 5000 statues and l53
colloSsi lone of them being one of the
seven wonders of the world. and costing
81 OH 0u0) nor to Antioch with a s:rre'
four miles long, perfectly level, and don
b e colonaies through its whole length
NOR TO Athens, and the Parthenon, and
Theater nf Bacchus. the most beautiful
in the world, which seated 80 O0O per-
sons.