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Evening Star, Issue 18159, 27 December 1922, Page 1

Spain is said to have 600,000 titled persons —that is, about one in every thirtyeight inhabitants. But such titles are held at less than nothing by the original peerage of the country. -These are known as the grandees, and form an aristocracy entirely of birth, and some of them having no handles at all to their names, yet entirely refusing to mix with even dukes of new creation. To become a Spanish baron £SOO Is sufficient. _ Visoountcy costs double that amount, while to be made a count a payment of £1,600 is necessary. The now Ad stamp issued for St. Christopher and Nevis, the two Leeward Isles in the West Indies discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, and now British possessions, shows the discoverer looking through a spyglass. Columbus, of course, died more than a century before Zachariah Haussen, maker of spectacles, made someone else’s fortune by devising the telescope. No more grinding of teeth with WADES WOEM FlGSH>dvi]