20,000,000
85--James G. Bennett United States Journalist 20,000,000
86--John G. Moore United States Finance 20,000,000
87--D.G. Reid United States Steel 20,000,000
88--Frederick Pabst United States Brewer 20,000,000
89--William D. Sloane United States Inherited 20,000,000
90--William B. Leeds United States Railroads 20,000,000
91--James B. Duke United States Tobacco 20,000,000
92--Anthony N. Brady United States Finance 20,000,000
93--Geo. W. Vanderbilt United States Railroads 20,000,000
94--Fred. W. Vanderbilt United States Railroads 20,000,000
95--Duke of Northumberl'd England Inherited 20,000,000
96--Lord Armstrong England Inherited 20,000,000
97--Lord Brassey England Inherited 20,000,000
98--Sir Thomas Lipton England Grocer 20,000,000
99--Ex-Empress Eugenie France Inherited 20,000,000
100--Queen Wilhelmina Holland Inherited 20,000,000
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Total $6,760,000,000

WIT OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS.

A Garnering of Old Jokes from the Classics Impresses the Reader with the
Fact that Modern Wit Isn't as New as It Ought to Be.

We moderns find it hard to improve on the ancients, except in such
insignificant conveniences as speed in traveling. Even our humor is in
large part no more than the re-tailored mummies of Roman, Greek, and
Egyptian humor--which means, of course, that those ancients merely
resurrected the jokes of their own dim ancestors. Humor comes before
speech.

The Greeks had a pretty wit. And how modern the old Greek jokes do sound!

A truly didactic saying is attributed by Aelian to the
Spartan magistrates. "When certain persons from Clazomenae
had come to Sparta and smeared with soot the seats on which
the Spartan magistrates sat discharging public duties; on
discovering what had been done and by whom, they expressed
no indignation, but merely ordered a proclamation to be
made, 'Let it be lawful for the people of Clazomenae