| Show BARRELS OF MON THE king of siam in his state attire is worth more than LONDON has thirty people whose incomes are over a year THE sultan of turkey with the aid of his numerous wives contrives to annually spend IT is that the wealth of the has doubled in the dinst twenty years and is now A NICE little sum in taxes is paid by joshiua M staiti ol 01 boston his real estate lias an assessed valuation of fa and the tax thereon is MILLION dollars worth of bank notes leave the bank of england daily while sixty folio volumes of ledgers are filled with writing in keeping the accounts of a single day IT cost the british government for the twelve months ending april 1 to run itself and its income was for the coming year the expenditures will he of which is for torpedo boats war vessels and the like to PREVENT its notes being forged by the aid of photography the bank of france is about to print them in three colors bistre red and blue and in new designs the 1000 franc notes are nearly ready and the frane note will be changed soon |
