The Idaho World

A ROTHSCHILD'S WEALTH.-The wealth left by the late Baron de Rothschild is something fabulous. It overpowers the imagination. No sultan, or caliph, or emperor, real or fabled, approached him in the extent of his opulence. The "wealth of Ormus or of Ind" pales before it.

The late Baron made the following disposition of his property: He left to his wife, Betty, $40,000,000, the chateau Ferriere, whose art galleries are estimated at above $4,000,000, and his house in the Rue Lafitte, at Paris; to his second son, Gustavus, he gave $40,000,000; to his third son, Edmund $30,000,000; and to his grandson, son of the late Solomon Rothschild, $10,000,000. This is pretty well in itself, but it does not exhaust the vast heaps left by the modern Croesus. The largest plum has fallen to the lot of his eldest son, Alphonsus, who comes in for a trifle of $100,000,000. This colossal fortune-and perhaps these legacies do not exhaust the amount-reaches the sum total of $224,000,000. It may give some idea of what this means to mention that it would nearly pay the interest on the national debt for two years, and is considerably more than half the income of Great Britain. Verily the deceased Baron must, like Midas, have possessed the faculty of converting everything he touched into gold.