To bo worth a small fortune, and yet live like a beggar, were the peculiar features iu the life of an elderly, man named Charles Phillips, who died recently in a cheap lodginghouso in London. He was a bachelor, ami seemed poor and miserable. After his death ho.was found to have neon entitled to property valued 'at .£2703. He had served in the Lancers and spent some time in New Zealand, where ho made money. Ho had lived for many years at liowhm House, spending aboiit fourpence daily on food. , Amsterdam has just opened its fifth annual exhibition of the ugly. It is organised by a group which devotes itself to educating the art tastes of the people. Anything that modern art or manufacture produces which is an offence to the eve and enotl taste is collected, erouned, and labelled under different classifications as "faulty material," "faulty construction," "faulty and bad decoration."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 8
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