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Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 174, 25 July 1907, Page 6

'tt •+^f^tration of wealth in the United States were plotted on a curve the ascending ordinates of the curve would giro cause '. for alarm. For, whereas fifty, years ago there were Hot more than 50 millionaires (dollar millionaires) in the whole of the States, and their combined fortunes did not exceed £20,000,000, or 1 per cent, of the aggregate wealth of the nation; m the space of 34 years the combined qon nnn Snnn thlS c& ss amounted to £7,----300,000 000, or 56 per cent, of the national wealth, while to-day 1 per Cen on the Population owns practically &o.per cent, of the entire wealth of the nation. Such a statement as this made by a scientific statistician lends force and probability to that forecast by Mr Wells of a future in which there-should be but three classes—the inordinately rich, the intellectual people in their, pay, and the miserably poor. Ihe statistician who collected these tacts adds that 18,000,000 waseeir.ner? receive less than £80 a year, w? lch 1 ls also t]l6 average salary paid to school teachers and" educators in general.

There are a good many affairs of life which it is difficult to deal with gracefully, so it is well to gather hints from all quarters. This is how they get over one kind of trouble in Indiana. The authority is a newspaper of the State. When an Indiana girl gets tired of a lover and determines to dismiss him, she dosen t throw much fresco work into her speech: 'I guess you can pull off now, bam,' is her icy remark; 'this egg won't hatch.' "

On© of the most biting things that Disraeli ever said was" at a dinner party, after dinner, , when the men were alone. "What did yon marry her for?" Bernal Osborne- asked in his characteristic way. Disraeli twiddled his wineglass in the pause that followed this point-blank inquiry. Then he lifted his head slowly, and looked the other very expressively in the face. "For a reason," he said, "which you could never'understand—gratitude."