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Show Vas'dereilt's Scrap-books. The latest estimate of Vanderbill's wealth places it at a hundred mi I lorn, and it is increasing every day. Tho old man has a large library, which consists con-sists of scrap-books pasted full of government and other bonds, lie. could buy out half of the crowned heads of Europe. Nobody, not even himself, knows the exact figures of hia wealth. There is no danger of his falling in the road so disastrously traveled by Daniel Drew, because he is more careful about scaitering his promissory notes around, and slicks rigidly to his library of government bond scrap-hooks. Ho is tho richest man on the American continent. |