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Show 1 DUKE OF ORLEANS IS HARD UP i In the diplomatic and social world in London it is believed that the duke of Orleans, who aspires to be king of France and keeps on wire pulling to that end, must be a bit short of ready cash. Otherwise no one believes that he would have sold his famous estate of Wood Norton, "the home of exiles," as he has just done, the buyer being an English judge. Sir Charles Swin-fen Swin-fen Eady, writes a London correspondent corre-spondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. How much his worship paid his highness for Wood Norton it has proved impossible to learn, but it must have been a tidy sum, for the house itself is furnished with a magnificence mag-nificence in keeping with the royal state which the pretender to the throne of France has kept up there, and the. property, which is located near Evesham, in the valley of the Avon, extends over 2,500 acres and takes in seve-al parishes. The mansion, man-sion, which is a handsome one, with many gables, will need a lot of alteration altera-tion inside to make it a suitable home for an English magistrate, everything, from the door handles and the electric fittings to the oak panelings, being emblazoned with the fleur-de-lis of the royal house of France. However, its new owner can stand the racket, for, besides getting a fat salary as one of the judges of the court of chancery which so many Americans believe to be keeping them out of big fortunes he is said to have earned, as a barrister, barris-ter, one of the largest incomes ever made by a lawyer in England. |