TRAVAGANCE.

Antony and Caligula Appear to Have Been
Leaders in the Wanton Expenditure
of Vast Fortunes.

That the accumulation of vast fortunes was as possible in ancient Rome,
which knew neither the railroad nor Standard Oil, as it is in the United
States to-day, is shown by the following table that has been compiled from
authoritative historical records.

While it may be true that the wealth of the Czar of Russia and John D.
Rockefeller may exceed nearly all of these old-time hoards, there can be
no question of the fact that as spenders of enormous fortunes Antony and
Caligula have never been surpassed.

Crassus's landed estate was valued at $8,333,330

His house was valued at 400,000

Caecilius Isidorus, after having lost much, left 5,235,800

Demetrius, a freedman of Pompey, was worth 3,875,000

Lentulus, the augur, no less than 16,666,666

Clodius, who was slain by Milo, paid for his house 700,000

He once swallowed a pearl worth 40,000

Apicius was worth more than 5,000,000

He poisoned himself after he had
spent in his kitchen and otherwise
squandered immense sums
to the amount of 4,160,000

The establishment belonging to
M. Scaurus, at Tusculum, was
valued at 4,150,000

Curio contracted debts to the amount of 2,500,000

Milo contracted one debt of 2,915,000

Antony owed at the Ides of
March, which he paid before
the Calends of April 1,666,666

Seneca had a fortune of 17,500,000

Tiberius left at his death, and
Caligula spent in less than
twelve months 118,120,000

Gifts and bribes may be considered
signs of great riches:

Caesar presented Servilia, the
mother of Brutus, with a pearl
worth 200,000

Paulus, the consul, was bribed by
Caesar with the sum of 292,000

MACHINES TAKE JOBS OF INSURANCE AGENTS.

THEY ISSUE POLICIES IN ENGLAND.

Applicant Drops Coin in Slot, Writes His
Name Through an Opening, and
Then Gets the Document.

Do nothing by human labor that can be done by machinery--that is the
bu