Show THREW hia WEALTH AWAY mad fortune in mi diel liverpool post A most eccentric man enst lied at grantham Grant bam lie went to australia some twenty five yeas ago and returned hohri in 1885 with a lage fortune which he began fp ending very freely he purchased ed articles aad invariably destroyed them A gold watch was smashed up the moment it waa bought the back of a silver watch was wrenched off BO aa to be more convenient for winding up the straw was taken out of a new mattress for pig bedding springs taken out of a new easy chair shelves out of the house for firewood clocks broken up and thrown away bread burned daily in the fire legs of mutton ande idea of bacon were buried in the garden valuable plants and trees were bought and chopped up he built a greenhouse and knocked it to pieces A little pig that refused to be driven up stairs where a bed had been prepared for it wilh great care had its career ended by abow on the bead with a hammer he died a poor man in fact a pauper and was buried by the parish |