Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-10-15

und now Solomon owns gouble uf brick
sdores in Houston, Texas. He made all
ut dat by his perseverance. Uink ut it,
Hermann, und vile you. dink uf it don't let
de shoemaker We vas dalking about get away
mitout paying vat he owes.
How the Rich Spend their Money in Eng.
land.
From the New York Sun.
If rich people should see fit to bring down
their domestic expenditure to that usual
among families of similar means here. thew
would very soon be able not merely to re-
coup themselves for the loss Of several bad
harvests but to save vast sums of money.
In our large Eastern cities family men with
ANYTHING under 1926, 900 a year spend more
freely than Englishmen with the same in
come; but as regards those with incomes
over that amount it is quite another matter
When Macaulay, before proceeding to In.
Ola, consulted Sidney Smiths experienced
brother, the famous 'Bobus," as to ex-
pense to Calcutta, he was told that he could
not be comfortable under e3, 900 a year,
and he could not possibly get through
E5 900. This is in a measure true of the
United States. 1t might be safely asserted
that in the whole of this country there are
not five persons, if as many who spend on
there establishments 100000 A careful
estimate, madea year or two ago by per-
sons eminently qualified to make it, brought
such expenditure up to 1896, 900. It included
town house, a yacht, villa at Newport
and country seat. ~nt~
What runs away with incomes of from
$50, 900 to $3.50, 600 in England is the keep
ing up OF country seats, hounds, hospitali-
ty and game preserves. At Drumlanrig
castle, for instance, and of its owners ten
residences, there are eighty miles of glass
drive kept in order; at Gridge, more than
forty. Add to this acres of garden and
glass and the expense of park keepers and
game keepers, and it is easy to see where
the money goes. If there is hunting es-
Establishment on a liberal scale, at least $780,
600 year must be added.
Again, while the hospitality of an average
well-to- do American favorably compares
with that of an Englishman with similar
means, that of the broad-acred
Englshman is immensely greater
than that of the American millionaire.
The latter gives some dinner parties, and
perhaps an annual ball, and keeps dozen
servants; the Englishman, on the other
hand, besides constantly entertaining in
at time with twenty guests, staying with
their servants, in his country house, and
feeds from fifty to sixty every day in his
servants hall, with as much beef and beer
as they please to consume. More that this,
he at times entertains whole schools and
parishes, besides giving away hundreds of
pounds in the shape Of beef and blankets
at Christmas. He subscribes, too,
to every public charity in the county,
sometimes in two or three counties.
Merely to take single example, there is
Lord Derby, with ten men servants in his
house, and about forty more domestics
feeding daily at his board. Supposing to-
morrow he and his wife should agree to
struggle along on $500 600 year, he could
save at least 800, 900 year; while were the
dukes of Westminster, Devonshire, and
Bedford to do likewise, their savings would
be still greater. Surprising Lord Derby to
save at this rate for thirty years, what an
hi-millionare he would become. =.
Twenty years ago there died queer old
bachelor, Lord Digby, who owned Raleigh's
il-fated home Of Shelbourne castle. He
was a most liberal landlord, but did not
care to spend more than some $685., 900
year, and let his money out rolling up in
yesting it all III per cents. His income
was not fourth of Lord Derby's, but he
left in the funds 81 800, 900. As a rule
peer leaves comparatively little behind
him; ST. 100000 would be regarded as on un-
usually large sum for man with $500
600 a year to have, and there is but one
case on record-that of Lord Dysert, an
eccentric recluse-of a peer leaving over
$7,5O0,O00 personally. aG
On very large properties the surplus in
come is chiefly expended in very costly
improvements. Thus the Duke of Devon
shire has built Eastbourne and much of
Buxton. The duke Of Buccleuch has sex-,
pended thousands at Granton, and both
have put vast sums into enterprises coz
nected with Rarrow- ih- Furness About
$4,000, 900 of Lord Bute's has gone into
docks at Cardiff. The late Lord West
minister built and rebuilt probably not less
than 1000 houses in London, and North
cumberland and Sutherlandshire reflect on
all sides the generous expenditure of the
dukes of their name; while beautiful
churches, commodious schools and hand
some homesteads, soon ingorm the traveller
in Wiltshire and Bedfordshire that he is on
the broad domain OF The earl of Pembroke
or the duke of Bedford. Had the vast sums
thus spent been mainly Put into stocks, or
bonds and mortgages, the present holder
of the lands might have been richer men,
but the country would have been in many
respects the loser, and it would be wide
~ different looking region from what it is
day.
When Prof. Tyndall was in this country
the proceeds Of his lectures were literally
set apart to found scholarship for Ameri-
can students in German universities who
shall devote themselves tn nh vs1cs s and
the committee having this matter in charge
are Prof Yeomans. editor of the Popular
Science Monthly, President Barnard, of