A TYPICAL MILLIONAIRE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 120, 7 March 1901, Page 4

A TYPICAL MILLIONAIRE.

The fierce light which beats upon a millionaire and otherwise lights up the seats oc the mighty has been performing its useful office for Mr Whitaker Wright, the managing dirctor of the London aud Globe Finance Corporation. It shows tnis gentleman as six foot high, weighing fiom 17 to 18 stone, and of decidedly Semitic countenance. He has an enormous head, small eyes, black hair and moustache, and receding forehead and chin, a fleshy neck, pud, reminiscent of Artemus Ward's house with a cupola and a mortgage on it—an American accent. He dresses always in black and never wears jewellery. Among his personal idosyncrasieg is a horror of being photograph. He will never ride in a hansom cab ; if he caunot get a fourwheeler he gets into a 'bus, and it: there is no 'bus he walks. Ho is a good billiard player, likes a game of " cricket on the hearth," and possesses wonderful fishbonds, palatial stables, and the pest yacht tnat money can buy. He has an adventurous career, ■ and on one occasion saved his life iby presenting an old Red Indian.

sqaw with a trivial present. Out prospecting one day, he looked in at her te> t, and gave her a "quid" of tobacco. She immediately told him that the braves " of her tribe were oh the war-path, ?.id hid him beneath some skins. Presently op came the red-skins, and asked if she had seen him. She stood at the door of her tent, and said that he had passed on in a cerlain direction. Every other white man in the neighbourhood was murdered. Mr Wright's home is scored with unique works of art. His wife is a handsome American brunette, petite with a wonderilal gift, for finance, and i urther hostages to forlune are an eighteen-year-old son and two daughters. Apart from his wealth and the little adventure we have mentioned, this typical millionaire seems to be mostly just a plain "man."

Balvria alone has 26 lead pencil factories which employ from 9000 to 10,000 wo.kijeti, and prod u a on an average 4,320,000 lead pejcila and c ajoiis every week. It is a curious fact that the use of German Jead pencils in all the pub'ic offices aad schools of France is forbidden by Jaw. The emotional litterateur has just written a piece of which he was veiy proud. The ethic- looked it over and said—"Do you candidly thiuk such opinious ought to go iato cold type?" " I don't know much about the practical work of pri *ting," was the reply, " bat I don't believe it makes any differenc. elven if the type is cold, I guess that article will take the cb'll o? it ? Miss Dearborn: "Is it a fact thai your father i 3 wori.h a lot of money ?" Miss Wabash; " What pu« that idea ; n your head ?" " Why, I understand some man wanta to marry you." Th 6 .Optimist: "Now, as to woman i,ejeraUy speak'ng." The Disagreeable Man: "Yes, she's generally speaWag."