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Show Wees a man in New York has once taken a fine house he -doesn't like to leave it even if his income begins be-gins to fail. It makes people talk, and his position may be affected. There died not long ago a gentleman, who, up to his death, had been pay. ing $10,000 a year for his house, and could leave nothing for his family. He took it when times were flush and didn't give it up. To London, where rents are higher than anywhere except New York, no one has paid such a rent as this since Lord Palmorston, when Prime Minister, paid the same sum for .Cambridge house in Piccadilly. Pic-cadilly. He was childless, eighty, had an income of 20,000 a year in real estate and salary, and his wife had upward of 20.000 a year more. London men with 100,000 a year in the most solid securities are content with houses rented at 1,000 a year. The London rents ol the two richest men in England did not amount to ! 7,000. Their property was worth ;$SO,000.000. |