The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-25
THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.
Curious Calculations Concerning This
Enormous Sum of Monex.

r. III. Swords, a banker OF London.
sat in the Continental corridor recent.
~ reading newspaper. Suddenly he
said:
Listen TO this statement: The Van
oerblit estate is now calculated to be
worth mt least $500. 900. OOO.'" Mr..
swords folded his paper. and. leariing
back In the chair. continued: ssOf cour :
l DO not know whether that statement
Is true; but | saw 1t published in the
Standard several weeks ago.
The sum seemed so enormous thai
spent quite while in calculating the
physical proportions of that number OF
SILVER dollars. Here Is a little slip In
my wallet here that may give you some
idea III Adam, when he first looked
around in the Garden of Eden, say
5000 years ago. had been met by Satan
and had been employed by him ut a
regular salary of $4,000 per annum
and his board and clothes; and If Adam
had carefully laid his silver dollars
away in barrels each year. aud had
hved to the present time. ne would
now have 100000, 900. Again. If a
man born In the Christian era, 1890
years ago. had lived aud been steadily
a. ~ VI per
month, S443 a day, and his living ex-
penses besides, and had saved every
dollar of 1t, he would rot to-day have
three hundred millions.
IF 1t were necessary to transnort
this number of silver dollars IL would
require $50 freight cars, each of a ca
pacity OF twenty tons. Ii these cars
were put into one train it would be
more than four miles long. If it were
possible for 800. 200. 600 silver dollars
TO be laid on the ground in u straight
line, with edges touching each other
the whole distance, the line would reach
farther than from London across the
Atlantic Ocean aud over the North
American Continent 10 San Francisco.
A sidewalk of three hundred million
silver dollars could be laid six feet wide
aud more than fifteen miles long. III
three hundred million dollars were laid
one on top of the other they would
make column AIS miles high. If
taken down and arranged in the form
Oi cube each side of the latter would
be thirty-tive feet long and wide. and il
would weigh more than 10, 600 tons. Ii
such weight were dropped from the
roof of the new city hall the coneussion
would be great enough to destroy that
part of the city. - Philadelphia Press.
Noticed BY the Supreme Court.
Attorney General Clapp of Minnesota
considers that he was most highly
honored while attending the United
States Supreme Court in Washington
recently. So he intimated at the
Capitol recently.
"A particular mark of distinction
was paid me by high dignitary. y said
he. with the utmost satisfaction.
How was itP What happenede Tell
US. chorused a coterie of colleagues.
We'll. it was this way" said the At
torney General. complacently. Il
was sitting in the Supreme Court. an
interested listener to a case that was
being argued by several of the most
brilliant and rhetorical LAWYERS of the
Presently page touched me
ON the shoulder. Well. sonny wbst
do you want?' / asked. Please, sir.
he replied, are you the Attorney Ger
eral of Minnesota?' / told him / was. |
and he informed me that the Marshal /
Of the court desired to speak TO me. |
This pleased me immeasurablv. Invent /
over TO the Marshal. and he rigidly /
pointed to an unlighted cigar that / /
had in my mouth and said il was
against the precedent and dignity of /
the court to hold cigar in ones mouth /
IN The presence of the Justices of the
court You will please remove that /
cigar he added in acrid tones. / was /
30 astonished that the cigar actually /
fell from my teeth to the carpet. =.
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