"Domicile" and Death Duties IN times gone past there _hive been quarrels between various cities that were anxious to claim eminent men as offspring of their own areas, Dut. these litle posthumous utes are as nothing to the full. Gress legal battles which are now Hable to follow the death of a mil lonaire. The domicile of Sir David Yulle-has provided one such contest, and it is: mow learnt that the estate the Into Lord Tveagh will supply nother. The Irish. Free "State authorities say that his "domicile" Was Ireland, and have therefore put inva modest claim for death dities the tune of 124,500,000. But Mr. Philip Snowden also claims. these duties on behalf of the British Gov-fernment—and from. what one Knows. of Sr. Snowden it. seems probable that th lai wil not be ightly relinquished. It is a warn ing to, millionaires against having houses in too many parts of the world—unless, of course, they are anxious provide a tussle' for tax-collectors which they. will not be thers t0 enjoy, If they acquire too. many "'domiciles" their later fame may] recall the couple Seven, wealthy cities strove for Neforouph which the living. Werner begged hia Brea id However the comparison must not be: pressed too far. Though a di tinguished patron of the carts, the late Lord 'Iveagh "was. hardly" a Homer—and he cannot. be said to have exactly "begged his bread" either in Ireland or thie' country.
Toward Economy Tum present demand for economy, like everything else under the sun, is not now; perhaps it. is. one of the oldest outcries in the world. On July 7, 1821, the "Manchester "Guardian" published an article. on the need. for. Ministerial economy, and inthe same issue an item of news headed "Important Inform: tion to Bachelors" was given show ing -an attempt at. individ nomy. The paragraph reads: "A pew system of accommodation has lately been adopted in London for the convenience of those who. wish to cut a figure In society' without supporting an expensive establish: ment, A-bachelor invites a number of friends to partake of a Tune he sends for a Whole ham and round of beef, ready dressed, which are weighed in his presence; after they are done with the shopkeeper takes them, and, on reweighing, the qua Aity" consumed la paid for."
Hitlerites on the "Beggar's Opera" a proof of the vitality Gay's work that a. performance of a film version of the '5. Opera" produced "Naat interruption on the ground that the work tended to bring score on clergy und police. $0 to-day we seo. revived a quarrel which drew many different opinions 150. years Gibbon, i "will remembered, rived that the opera might perhaps have increased the number of highwaymen, but that it had had a Deneficial effect by making. high-Way men less ferocious and more elite. Boswell quotes a "very Eminent physician" (he might most have qualified for the. gossip column in & national newspaper) for the opinion that "a lively young] man, fond of pleasure and without money, would hardly resist a 8 tation from his mistress to go upon the highway: immediately after being present at the representation of the "Begg Bue
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