A MILLIONAIRES FAD.
A Hu3?ian millionaire has recently hart built for him in Sfc Petersburg a most sumphious smoking-room. Its richness consists, not in its furniture, which is a model of simplicity, but in its walls. These are literally lined with European bank notes. Instead of the mass of white ceiling which forms the desperation of discipies of William Morris is seen in profusion Austrian notes must artistically grouped round a blue ten florin bank note^ Charming designs composed of French, English, Italian, and Russian bank notes, adorn tr-e walls. This curious room has received many famous visitors from all points of the compass. Among others a celebrated Hungarian painter was introduced. He glanced up at the eccentric millionaire, and said with a smile, " Sir, it is a pity you have already thus disposed of your money, for, for the same amount, I would willingly have decorated your walls — perhaps more artistically, indeed, than is now the caso— by covering them with paintings, even as Michael Angelo did for his Holiness l J ope Julius the Second."
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 3
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177A MILLIONAIRES FAD. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 3
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