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Show MILLI0NAIP.E8JN OEHMANV. Their InniMM Vtnul.l lie Hruall la Alnrrlra or I nalan.l. Tho dllferencet In Iho unit of money In different c-.untrles make a considerable consid-erable dlfferenco In tho practical meaning; of tho word "millionaire.' Webster's dictionary defines a millionaire million-aire at "nno whose wealth It counted by millions." In nopulsr uso one who bsa a million la regarded aa n millionaire. million-aire. In the United Btatca It would bs J 1,000.000. In lioglsnd It would bs (.1.000.004 sterling. Hut aa the pound sterling Is wonh tl.sC and a fraction In our money, the Hngllshman would require nearly flvo times ss ranch actual act-ual capital as the Amirlcsn before tho Kngllthinm cculd tike rank In tho noblo army of martyrs known as millionaire." mil-lionaire." Hero In Oormnny, wbsro ths unit of talua la tho mark, which Is worth 23 rents and u fraction In our roonoy, much lets actual capital It n quired to mako n man n millionaire than In tho United SttUe I had thla fact Im-mmuiI Im-mmuiI tmnn mm hv leadlnt- In a Ger man newspaper that trnirdlng to tho Blstlttlcsl Voir I!o"k of Ucrln lh.nl city of over 1.000,000 Inhabitants, ton-tains ton-tains !.0K mlllo-.sl.es each person who lisi sn Income of more than 86,000 marks being lorkoncd as a millionaire." mil-lionaire." Thlrtt-ilx thousand marks are leas than 10,000 and $9,000 a year seemed to me to bo a rsthcr small "millionaire" Income. I found, how ever, by a rspld computation, that 36,600 marks la a little moro than 3Vi per centum on n million marks (about (140.000) and there )ou have your millionaire neoordlnn to the German value. According to tho tamo authority author-ity there are 417 "(halcr millionaires" In Berlin a thilor being 3 marks, so that eaoh of tills variety of millionaires million-aires has A capital of 3,000.000 marks, or nbout J7X1.000 och. Tho wealthiest wealthi-est man In Berlin has an Inconio of M29.000 marks, ar roughly 1100 000. Only soven Ilerllncrs have an Income of mora than a million marks-t0,000. marks-t0,000. Wilmington (Del.) Nous. |
