How American Millionaires Spend Their Fortunes.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 5

How American Millionaires Spend Their Fortunes.

Here is a description ot a recent masquerade ball, given by James (Jordon Bennett, at his Newport, U.S.A., villa, in honour of his principal guest, President Arthur :—: — Electric lights wore profusely used around the grounds and within a large tented ball-area of .shaven and rolled tan. Beneath the pines, maples, and oaks were many small pavilions connected together, as well as with the ball-room and the t upper pagodas, by carpets. At one end of the dancing pavilion was a mimic iceberg, composed of twenty tons of ice, over the sides of which, from invisible pipes, gushed little rivulets, that escaped into grassy basins beneath, the wholo lighted by an ingeniously concealed electric light. At the other end of the pavilion was a massivo pyramid of maidon fern, surmounted by the flags of tho host's large stoam yacht Namouna. The thermometer beyond the grounds stood at eighty degrees, but the icy atmospbeie is paid to havo destroyed all sense of heat in tho six hundred guests.

In the harems of Turkey may be found women of all nationalities except British and Germany ; in the same institutions in Utah, British and German women abound, and Fiench women are not to be found. The average number of weekday visitors at Sydney National Art Gallery for October wns 365, a total of 9,874 for month. Tho average on Sundays 1,700, a total of 6,803 for four Sundays. Total for month, 16,677. An Irishman is reported to have been severely handled, simply, it appears, bocauso he wanted to find out a conundrum. The conundrum was — " What's the difference between a man and woman fighting on the street ?" In the year 1 882, there were 5,250,000 pupils at school in the United Kingdom, 860,000 in Canada, 611,000 in Australia, and 2,200,000 in India."