75--Prince Yusupoff Russia Inherited 25,000,000
76--Lord Mountstephen Canada Real estate 25,000,000
77--Queen Louise Denmark Inherited 25,000,000
78--Grand Duke of Hesse Germany Inherited 25,000,000
79--Prince Anton Radziwill Germany Inherited 25,000,000
80--August Belmont United States Finance 20,000,000
81--James Stillman United States Banker 20,000,000
82--John W. Gates United States Finance 20,000,000
83--Norman B. Ream United States Finance 20,000,000
84--Joseph Pulitzer United States Journalist 20,000,000
85--James G. Bennett United States Journalist 20,000,000
86--John G. Moore United States Finance 20,000,000
87--D.G. Reid United States Steel 20,000,000
88--Frederick Pabst United States Brewer 20,000,000
89--William D. Sloane United States Inherited 20,000,000
90--William B. Leeds United States Railroads 20,000,000
91--James B. Duke United States Tobacco 20,000,000
92--Anthony N. Brady United States Finance 20,000,000
93--Geo. W. Vanderbilt United States Railroads 20,000,000
94--Fred. W. Vanderbilt United States Railroads 20,000,000
95--Duke of Northumberl'd England Inherited 20,000,000
96--Lord Armstrong England Inherited 20,000,000
97--Lord Brassey England Inherited 20,000,000
98--Sir Thomas Lipton England Grocer 20,000,000
99--Ex-Empress Eugenie France Inherited 20,000,000
100--Queen Wilhelmina Holland Inherited 20,000,000
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Total $6,760,000,000
WIT OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS.
A Garnering of Old Jokes from the Classics Impresses the Reader with the
Fact that Modern Wit Isn't as New as It Ought to Be.
We moderns find it hard to improve on the ancients, except in such
insignificant conveniences as speed in traveling. Even our humor is in
large part no more than the re-tailored mummies of Roman, Greek, and
Egyptian humor--which means, of course, that those ancients merely
resurrected the jokes of their own dim ancestors. Humor comes before
speech.
The Greeks had a pretty wit. And how modern the old Greek jokes do sound!
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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