The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-11
COSTLY wHIMs.
MiIllonnires Who Have spent Fortunes
 on the Merest Fancics.

on the Nerest Fanctes.
 No man is more careful as rule, with his money than your millionaire. He would never have made his for tune if he had not acted on the prin- ciple of taking care of the pennies. But when a very wealthy man dies and leaves his fortune to irresponsible heirs, then it is that the money flies.
 We have all heard of the man who uses flve-pound notes to light his pipe with, and most of us have put him down as myth. But he really exists At a faney-dress ball, a younger member of the well-known Bleichroder banking family lit his cigarette with note, not for five, but for fifty pounds. The se- quel was rather amusing. An attache of the Austrian embassy, viewing this childish bit of swagger, called Bleieh- roder "a young ass" The juvenile mil lionaire resented his remark with 8 blow, whereupon the other sailed in, and administered a well-deserved thrashing. When the police stopped the fight the millionaire was found to be the posa sessor of two beautiful black eyes, In France there is a law by which the i family of a spendthrift can apply for I an injunction to control his wild ex- penditures. Such an injunction was re- gently obtained by the relations of a youth named Lemalre It appears that the boy--he was hardly more-was at Cherbourg, during his military services when chance took him into a n1ena- gerie. Greatly pleased with the ani- mals on exhibition, he went to the pro- 5rietor and asked what he would sell the whole business for.
 "One hundred thousand francs" was the reply.
 Without a moments hesitation the l youth wrote a check for that amount, and so became the owner of a large and miscellaneous assortment of saw age pets. for which he had not the faintest idea how to control or manage.
 American millionaires are credited with all kinds of eccentricities, and really fiction could hardly out-vie fact with regard to their whinns A man named Fleisehmann Is so devoted to baseball that he keeps two teams at his country place, where they play be- l fore him every day that he is at home. Board, lodging, and salaries are all on a lavish scale. Another, named Sands, has a passion for models of cathedrals, abbeys and churches. These are exc cuted to scale in solid silver, and all ready fill a large room. Their cost to date has been e65,OOO.
 Speaking of silver, the Rama oi Oodeypore, a Hindu prince, not long ago ordered from an English firm a complete suit of body armor, consist ing of helmet, euirass, buckler and gauntlets, made entirely of virgin sil- yer, the edges being decorated witt 22-karat gold. Another Indian prince lordered last year in London a complete set of bed room furniture all of soiid silver. The four-post bedstead alone accounted for ton of silver, and tho total cost of the order exceeded a15,OoO
 It is not Hindu magnates only wht go in for costly articles of personal use We read with arAazement, rot lonl since, of the sultan of Morocco's goldei camera. The khedive of Egypts pc extravaganza is harness. His four Ihclse set for state occasions has buck les and ornaments of solid gold, ant cost e14,OOO.
 Rich women are not behind men il weird and amazing extravagance. Tn wife of a certain Chicago millionair has a scent distilled from a rare vari ety Of water lily. which cost her 85 ( drop. It takes over hundred tons o the lilies to make bottlefUl.