A MODERN CRŒSUS.
A. statistician has compiled some curious facts concerning Mr Jay GouldV fortune, which capitalised, is said to be worth £60,000,000. If this sum were in £5 notes, and the notes were fastened end to end, the strip of paper would be long enough to reach from London to Moscow. If the sum were in sovereigns, the coins, piled singly one upon another, would reach to a height 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 porters, each charged with a hundredweight of gold. If the fortune were in penny pieces, and if ten men, working night and day without intermission, were set to count them at the rate of 100 a minute, the would last more than 27 years. Mr Gould, it is further computed, ia rich enough to give a shilling to each person at present alive in the world ; but to distribute the shillings at the 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 apiece for ever. Mr Gould is, it is believed, not only the richest man of the day, but the richest man who has ever lived.—From Cassell’s Saturday Jovrnal.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2052, 29 May 1890, Page 3
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223A MODERN CRŒSUS. Temuka Leader, Issue 2052, 29 May 1890, Page 3
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