West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-03-22


The State Capitol at Albany. N. ".
Is the costliest building OF modern
times Nineteen million six hundred
thousand dollars have been expended
on IL to date. The Capitol at Wash
ington from 1893, when its corner
stone was laid, to 1878, had cost. in
Guiding its expensive furniture, its
almost annual alterations and repairs,
less than $l3, 100000.
The most expensive municipal hall
In the world, and the largest i'm the
United States, is the Public Building of
Philadelphia The largest clock in
the world is to be i'm its tower.
The most expensive Legislature in
the world is that OF France, which
costs annually SS, coo, 600 The Italian
Parliament costs $40, 900 a year.
The next to the highest price ever
600, for which Axtel, the trotter was
sold in Indiana at the age OF three
years. On January IL, 1892, Arion
was sold by Senator Stanford to /.
Malcolm Forbes, of Boston, for $3.50
600. That beats all prices. Charles
Reed, OF the Fairview Farm, Tennes-
see, gave 800, 900 for the great stall
lion, ST. Blaise, at a sale in New York
In October, 1891.
The most costly book In the world
Is declared to be a Hebrew Bible now
In the Vatican. In 1912 IL Is said that
Pope Julius III. refused to sell the BIZ
amount to $lO3, 200. That is the
greatest price ever offered for book.
In 1885 tulip bulb was sold i'm Hol-
land for e., ZOO 1t weighed 200 grains.
The costliest meal ever served, ac-
corulng to history, was supper given
by Aslius Verus, one OF the most lavish
OF all the Romans OF the latter DAYS,
to a dozen guests. The cost was {, 200
sestertia, which would amount to
44S, 800, or nearly quarter of a mil
lion dollars. A celebrated feast given
by Vitelius, a Roman Emperor OF
those days, to his brother Lucius, cost
a little more than 5000, 600. Suetonius
says that the banquet consisted OF two
thousand different dishes of fish and
seven thousand different fowls besides
other courses
The largest sum ever asked or
offered for single diamond is g430,-
600, which the Nizam OF Hydera-
bad agreed TO give TO Mr.. Jacobs, the
famous jeweler of Simla, for the "Im-
periam diamond, which is considered
the finest stone In the world.
The costliest toy on record was
broken-nosed wooden horse, which be-
longed to Napoleon Bonaparte, and
was sold a year or two ago for 1000
francs
The costliest cigars ever brought to
this country were OF the brand made
for the Prince OF Wales In Havana,
the manufacturers price for which
was $l.S7 apiece.
The costliest mats I'm the world are
owned by the Shah OF Persia and the
Sultan of Turkey. The Shah and Sui
tan each possess a mat made OF pearls
and diamonds, valued at more than
~, 500, 600. The largest mat ever made
Is owned by the Carlton Club, of Lon
don, and is work OF art.
The costliest crown In Europe, ex-
perts say, is that worn by the Car OF
Russia on state occasions. 1t il sur
mounted by cross formed by four
magnificent diamonds, resting uIsSn
an immense uncut, but polished, ruby.
The ruby rests upon eleven large dia-
monds, which In turn are supported by
a mat OF pearls. The coronet OF the
Empress, il is said, contains the most
beautiful mass OF diamonds ever col
lected I'm one band.
The most expensive royal regalias In
the world are those OF the Mahajah of
Baroda, India. First comes a gor-
geous collar containing five hundred
arranged in five rows, some
as large as walnuts Top and bottom
rows of emeralds of equal size relieve
the lustre of the diamonds. A PEN
dant is a single brilliant called the
"Star Of the Deccan." The Mahara-
jah's special carpet, l0x6 feet, made
of pearls, with big diamond in the
centre and at each corner, cost 81, $780,
600.
The most valuable gold ore ever
mined In the United States, and prob
ably in the world, was lot contain
ing two hundred pounds of quartz,
carrying gold at the rate OF $50, 600
ton. 1t was taken from the main
shaft at Ishpeming, Mich.
The greatest sum ever paid for tele-
graph tolls In one week by newspa-
per 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 Lon
don was 81. rs word, and the Times
paid out $4,000 for one weeks dis
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