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Show Lelasd Stanford, the San Francisco Fran-cisco millionaire, has just built for himself a private residence in that city at a cost of $1,000,000. The hall ot" his humble abode ii SO feet long and 20 feet wide, and the amount of mahogany, black walnut, velvet car petinfe, gorgfous gilding and frescoing is quite fabulous. Leland's sleeping apartment is hung with gold wall paper, with French panels in blue doss velvet. The furniture is made o( costly woods. Tlie San Francisco pupers assert that Jay Choke's residence resi-dence near Philadelphia is a mere shell compared with Stanford's house. It is hoped that Stanford will own this magnificent atlair longer than Jay Cooke owned his marble halls. A strange fatality, however, seems to nl tend linfae architectural ireaka of our millionaires in these days. They wine and dine their friends a year or two and then tet short, shut up their oalaces, and go into hopeless bankruptcy. bank-ruptcy. It requires a fortune to build such houses and another forune to keep them in lull blast. Ralston tried it, like Jay Cooke, and failed. Courier-Join nal. |