Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — English Estates. [ARTICLE]

English Estates.

Seventeen wills, ench representing personally above $2,500,000, have been offered for probate so far this year in England, being the largest unmber in seven years. The Third Duke of Sutherland left the largest estate, $6,300,000, and four others were more than $5,000,000 each. Of the seventeen fortunes five were left by brewers, one by a wine merchant, three by bankers, one each by a colliery owner, a thread manufacturer (Clark of Paisley), a silk mercer (Marshall, of Marshall and Snelgrove), an iron merchant (the Earl of Beetive), a cotton spinner, a dyer, and a merchant. The late Lord Tweedmouth appears as a brewer. Together their sworn value was over $00,000,000. Australia has more places of public worship in proportion to population than any other country. Abraham Lincoln was undoubtedly the tallest president; he was 0 feet, 4 inches in height. The shortest was probably Benjamin Harrison, although Van Buren and John Adams were very short men. The oldest president was William Henry Harrison, who was 08 years and 1 month old when inaugurated; the youngest was Grant, who was not quite 47 years old. There are men who arise refreshed on hearing a threat.—Emerson,