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Vanderbilt's Cash

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
November
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Same eme has made a very curious ealculation of what Mr. Vanderbilt could do with his money. Mr. Vandorbilt's incouie from his invettinent in four per cent, governnient bonds s representad at $5,000 daily, which is $208.25 per hour, $3 47 per minute, or over 5 cents per second. As.Huming that he is paid by the second, be can not possibly spend his money, as he could not select his purcliases and lay down his money fast enough. He could not throw t away ; to piek it up, cast, recover and cast again, would take hiin two seconds, and if he worked all through the twentyfour hours without rest, he could only dispose of onehalt'ot'his income. Iïy living eoonomically, saving up for tour years, he could, placing his five-cent pieces side by side, inake a nickel belt around the earth, or by oonverting his savings into one-eent pieoeii and mounting them in a pile, he would, in twenty years, erect a road to the moon and have $500 to invest when he got there. Should his amusement take a chantable twist, he could out of a year's receipts, donate to every man, woman and child in tbc United States, twenty cents and have money lcfl over. Other vast possibilities occur to the glowing t'ancy ot' the calculator. In one day he coul 1 go to 8,000 different circuses, eat lO.tKX) pinta of' peanuts, drink 5,O(K) glasses ot' leuionade, and have money Ictt to get his boots blacked. He can afford to have 500,000 .shirts washed in odc day, arwi rui l!li il:iv i il' lis ilralll llís inCOIlie WÍl

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News