The Forrest City times., 1892-07-15
SOME VERY COSTLY THINGS.
High Values on Everthing From Cigars
 toa Kings Grown.

SOME VERY COSTLY THINGS. toa Kings Grown.
 The state capitol at Albany, N. Y. | is the costliest building in modern times. Nineteen million six hundred tbousan1 dollars have been expended on it to date. The capitol at Wash ington from l793, when it's corner stone was laid, to 1878, had cost, in- cluding it's expensive furniture, it's almost annual alterations and re- pairs, less than:S13 100000.
 The most expensive municipal hall in the world and the largest in the United States is the city building of Philadelphia. The largest clock in the world is to be in it's tower.
 The most expensive legislature in the world is that of France, which costs annually S3,6O0,00G The Italian parliament costs si2a, ,000 a year.
 The next to the highest price ever paId for horse in the world was $l05,- GOO, for which Axtrell, the trotter, was sold in Indiana at the age of 3 years. On Jan.lI 1892, ,Arion was sold by Sen ator Stanford to I.Malcolm Forbes of of Boston for Sl50,000. That beats all prices. Charles Reed of the Fair view farm, Tenn, gave $100,0OO for the great sallion St. Baise at sale in New York in October, 1892.
 The costliest paintings of modern times are Meisonier's 's1SI4" and and Miller's The Angelusv M. Chauchard gave S50,0O0 francs (Si70,- O00) for the "lS1i," and gave 750,0OO francs (Sl50,O00) for The Angelus" Henry Hilton ill 1887 paid $66 900 for Meissonier's '.Friedlond, lS07,n and presented it to the Metropolitan Mu- scum of Art.
 The most costly book in the world is declared to be Hebrew Bible now in the Vatican. Tn 15l2 it is said that Pope Jules II. refused to sell the Bible for it's weight in gold, which would amount to Sl03 900. That is the great est price ever offered for book.
 The cOStliest meal ever served, ac- cordiug to history, was a supper given by Elius Verus, one of the most lavish of all the Romans of the latter days to dozen guests. The cost was 5000 sostertia, which would amount to f4s0 600, or nearly $1 ,250, 900. A eel ebrated feast given by Vitellius a Roman emperor of those days. to his brother Lucius, cost little more than S200, 900. Suetonius says that the banquet consisted 2,OO0 different dishes of fish and 1000 different fowls, be- sides other courses.
 The largest sum ever asked or of- fered for single diamond is E430, OO0. which the Nizam of Hyderabad agreed to give to MT. Jacobs, the famous jeweler of Simia, for the Imperial" diamond, which is considered the ncf ctA st.t hn
 The coStliest cigars ever brought to this country were of the brand made for the Prince of Wales in Havanna, the manufacturer price for which was sl.87 apiece.
 The costltest mats in the world are owned by the Shah of Persia and the Sutton of Turkey The Shah and the Sultan each pOss, ., mat made of pearls and diamonds, volued at more than $2,500,0O0. The largest mat ever made is owned by the Carlton club of London and is work of art
 The cOstliest crown in Europe, ex- perts say, is that worn by the cZar of Russia on state occasions. It is sur mounted by a cross formed of five magnificent diamonds, resting upon an immense uncut, but polished, ruby. The ruby rests upon eleven large dia- monds, which, in turn, are supported by mat of pearls. The coronet of the empress, it is said, contains the most beautiful mass of diamonds ever collected in one band
 The most expensive royal regalias in the world are those of the Mahara- jah of Baroda. India. First comes a gorgeous collr conta ming 500 dia monds, arranged in five rows, some as large as walnuts. Top and bottom rows of emeralds of equal size relieve the lustre of the diamond. A pendant is single brilliant called the ''star of the Deccan." The maharajah's special carpet, 10x6 feet. made of pearls, with big diamond in the center and at each corner, cost Sl 800 900.
 The most valuable gold ore ever mined in the United States, and prob ably in the world, was lot containing 2oO pounds ofquartz, carrying gold at the rate of 85O, 600 ton. 1t was taken from the main shaft Of the mine at Ishpeming, Mich.
 The greatest sum ever paid for telegraph tolls in one week by news paper was the expenditure of the Lon don Times for cable service from Buenos Ayres during the revolution in the Argentine republic. The cost of cabling from Buenos Ayres to London was $1.75 a word, and Times paid out $30, 900 for one weeks dispatches. w. J. Florence, the comedian, once offered 5000 for catch phrase about which an American comedy could be written. Nobody supplied the de- mand.
 The costliest phrase in recent years Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" A Mute Recovers Speech.