The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-02

SlOO,OOO given DY Cnarl69 Reed OF the
Fairview farm. Tennessee, for the great
stallion, st. Blaise, at sale in New York
City in October, 1891.
A buff Legborn pullet exhibited at
the chicken fair in Ma lisou SQUARE
Garden 10 January, 1892, was valued at
500.
The costliest paintings of modern
times have proved to be Meissonier's
"lSl4" aud Millet's THE Angelus." M.
Chauchard gave $4,000 francs (S170 00O)
for 1914" and 10000 francs $3.50 OOO)
| for The Augeus." Mr. Henry Hilton
in 1887 paid s66 900 for Meissonier's
"Friedland, 1907 and presented it to
the Metropolitan Museum of Art That
was the highest price ever paid for a
modern picture until "The Angelus"
was sold at the Secretan sale for 500. 900
francs. OF course the after sales of the
twog great pictures mentioned broke even
this record.
The Shah of Persia has tobacco pipe
worth 100000.
The most costly book in the world is
declared to be Hebrew Bible now in
the Vatican. In the year 1912 it is said
that Pope Julius II. refused to sell this
Hebrew Bible for its weight in gold,
which would amount to 100000. This
is the greatest price ever offered for q
book.
In the year 1856 tulip bulb was sold
in Holland for $4,000. 1t weighed 200
| grains.
The costliest meal ever served, as far
as history shows, was supper given by
| Aelius Verus, one of the most lavish of
all Romans OF the latter day, to dozen
guests. The cost of this supper was
| 5000 sesteria, which would amount to
94S,50O. or nearly quarter of a million
dollars. A celebrated feast given by
Vltellius, a Roman emperor of those de-
generate days, to his brother Lucius,
cost little over 100000 Suetonius
says that this banquet consisted of 20O0
d fferent dishes of fish and 1000 different
fowls, beside other courses in proper
ton. Vitellius, fortunately for his ex-
clequer, did not reign very long, else
that would have been exhausted. as we'll
as the game preserves of Libya, Spain
and Britain and the waters of the Car
pathian and Adriatic seas. One dish
alone at the table of the Emperor He'll
/ oOo huI,o o0,t GOOO 0Q0
The most expensive royal regalias in
the world are said to be those of tt @
Maharajah of Baroda, India. First
comes gorgeous collar containing 500
diamonds, arrangedin five rows, some of
these as large az walnuts. A top and
bottom row of emeralds of equal size re-
lieves the lustre of the diamonds. A
pendant is composed of single brilliant
called the "Star OF the Deccan," and there
are aigrettes necklaces, bracelets, rings
and chains to match. The maharajah's
own special carpet, ten by six feet in ex
tent, made entirely of pearls, with big
diamond in the center and in each cor
ner. cost 81 100000.
The most valuable gold ore ever mined
in the United States, and probably in
the world, was lot containing 200
pounds of quartz, carrying gold at the
rate of $4,000 ton. This quartz was
taken from the main shaft of the Mich
gan gold mine at Ispheming. Assays
from the same lot showed that other
portions of it we're worth $110,953 ton.
The greatest sum ever paid for tele-
graph tolls in one week by newspaper
was the expenditure of the London
Times for cable service from Buenos
Ayres during the revolution in the Ar
gentins Republic. The cost of cabling
from Buenos Ayres to London was 81 rs
word, and the Times paid out $4,000
for one weeks dispatches. This was an
admirable thing to do from journals
tic point of view, as many millions of
English money we're invested in the city
OF Buenos Ayres and in the Argentine
Republic outside. and this was all jeop-
arded by the revolution.
w. j. Florence, the comedian, once
offered $1,000 for catch phrase about
which an American comedy could be
written. Nobody supplied the demand.
and this. the costliest phrase on recent
record, has yet to be made-unless it was
Rum. Romanism and Rebellion Nd
tiOndl Magazine.