A Modern Crœsus.
A statistician has compiled some curious tarts concerning Mr Jay GouM,s fortune, which Capitalised, is said to be worth £6,000,000. If this sum were in £5 notes, and the notes were fastened end to end, the strip of paper would he lug enough to re»ch from London to Moscrw. If they wejre in sovereigns, the coins, piled singly one upon another, would reach to a he ; ght of nearly 73 miles. The weight of the column would be about 570 tons, or enough load for 57 railway trucks, or for an army of 11,400 porti rs, eacli charged witli a hundredweight of gojd. It the fortune were in penny pieces, and if tep men ? working night and day without intermission, were s-t to count tnem at the rate of 100 a minute, the operation would hast more than 27 years. Mr Gould, it is further empputed, is rich enough to give a shilling to each person at present alive in the world ; but to distribute the shillings at tiie rate of ten a minute, would occupy 230 years, Finally, this colossal fortune is enough to supply 3000 with an income of £IOOO a year apiee for ever. Mr Gould is, it is believed, not only the richest man of the day, but the rich sst. man who has ever lived. From Cassell’s Saturday Journal.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 39, 10 June 1890, Page 3
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227A Modern Crœsus. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 39, 10 June 1890, Page 3
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