FORTUNE SPENT IN A YEAR.
The career of a Russian, Vladimir Njedochin, who dissipated a fortune in a year and is now a crossing-sweeper, is told in the Vienna 'Wiener Journal.' He was determined to live either at the top or at the bottom of the ladder. Unaccustomed to wealth, he unexpectedly inherited £62,500 ,from his mother a year ago. He began to live in the most expensive manner in St. Petersburg, keeping a yacht and racehorses. He gave the finest entertainments to his friends, in the course of which mirrors in the restaurants were frequently broken through the throwing of champagne bottles and glasses, but he cheerfully paid the hill. Lately,- discovering that he had come to the end of his money, he invited all his friends to a fete on an island, whither they were taken in his yacht. The day was passed in revelry. When the last visitor had been landed on the way home Njedochin sank his yacht so that no one should use it after him. Next day he applied to the municipality of St. Petersburg for a job as at £3 & pmth, sM jot it,
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Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 40, 18 November 1913, Page 3
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191FORTUNE SPENT IN A YEAR. Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 40, 18 November 1913, Page 3
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