SIX COSTLY THINGS.

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 56

SIX COSTLY THINGS.

The .biggest price for a. painting was that paid for Meisaonier's " 1814.',' ' M. Chanchard . gave '£34,ooo' for it. ; The most costly building of modern, times , will probably be that of the-NeW York State , Capitol at Albany. Nearly £4,000,000 has been spent on it.

, In 1892 I. Malcolm Forbes paid £80,000 to Senator Stanford for the horse Arion, making it the most valuable equine the world has ever known.

The most valuable book in the world, is a Hebrew Bible now in the Vatican. In 1512 Pope Julias II refused to sell ifc for its weight in gold, which would amount to about £20,000.

The " Imperial " diamond is considered the finest stone of its kind in the world. The Nizam of Hyderabad offered £430,000— ' the largest price eyer known— for this diamond.

The costliest meal ever served was a supper given by "Eelius Verus to a dozen gnests. It Is said to have cost £50,000.

— " Pa, what is a pessimist ? "— " A pessimist, my son, is a person who never goes out on his bicycle without expecting to puncture his tyre." — Mrs Cumso (reading) : " A butcherin Ireland .killed a cow, and found in her interior several hairpins, a thimble, five screws, and a sovereign." Cumso : " That beam oat exactly what my Uncle Jim used to say." '•What was that?" "He always contended that there was money in cows."

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