Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — Lord Derby’s Wealth. [ARTICLE]

Lord Derby’s Wealth.

London Truth. Lord Stanley’s allowance, as. an eldest son, was £12,000 a year, and few men knew it; so that he realized the ideal income sketched by the gentleman in ‘‘Coningsbyl*—lo,ooo a year, with the reputation of only 5,000. Lord Derby himself says that he was richer before he came into the estates than he is now. But that is one of your quiet men’s paradoxes—rarely uttered, and then the wildest conceivable. For Lord Derby is enormously rich—one of the very wealthiest subsets in Europe—and his income is steadily increasing. It is calculated that iu a few years he will be iu receipt of some two-thirds of a million per annum. There we have the first and cbiefest explanation of Lord Derby’s success, or, rather, of the profound veneration with which the majority of Englishmen regard him. For successful be has scarcely been, but of that presently. The second foot to be taken into account is that this man of £600,000 a yea s Is the head of the Stanleys, a name which has shone again and again with singular brightness in English history, and has been inscribed by immortal writers in the pages of English literature. The Earldom of Derby, the oldest on the roll excepting that of Shrewsbury, dates from 1485, when Henry VKL conferred it on Thomas, Lord Stanley, as the meed of htetreasen to Richard 111. For even a Stanley may foil short of absolute perfection. Any fertilizers to be used for wheat should be applied without delay. As good a growth as possible ought to be made before winter. Superhosphate of lime, nitrate of soda (in small quantities, however, at this season, on account of its solubility), fine bone flour, Peru vain guano, salt and plaster, can each be used with benefit, according to circumstances. f Rbal estate in and around Chicago Is advancing in price.