FORTUNE SPENT IN A YEAR.
Tho career of a Russian, _ Vladimir Njecloehiii, who dissipated a -fortune in a year, and is now a crossing sweeper, ia told. He was determined to live either at tho 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, keoping a yacht and racehorses. tho finest entertainments to his friends, in tho courso of which mirrors in the restaurants were frequently broken through tho throwing of c'hampagno bottles and glasses, but he cheerfully paid the bili. Discovering thai ho had come to the end gF his monoy, he invited all his friends to a fete in an island, whither they wcro taken in his yacht. When tho last visitor had been landed on the way homo, Njodochin sank his yacht so that no one should use it after him.. On the following day he applied to the municipality of St. Petersburg for a job as crossing-sweeper at £3 a month, Slid got it.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1891, 28 October 1913, Page 7
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182FORTUNE SPENT IN A YEAR. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1891, 28 October 1913, Page 7
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