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 |
| Cæcilius Isidorus, after having lost much, right | 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: | |
| Cæsar presented Servilia, the mother of Brutus, with a pearl worth | 200,000 |
| Paulus, the consul, was bribed by Cæsar 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 business maxim of the twentieth century.
No man is sure of his job once an inventor gets on his trail.
Twenty years ago it was said that nothing on earth, with less intelligence than a human being, could set type, play the piano, add figures, or tie a knot in a piece of binding-twine.
The inventors said, "We can make machines of wood and steel—machines that have no brains and no feeling, that can do these things, and do them better than a man."