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 			<p class="query">How much and how did he propose to pay for this country residence?</p>
 			<p>As per prospectus of the Industrious Foreign Acclimatised Nationalised Friendly Stateaided Building Society (incorporated <time datetime="1874">1874</time>), a maximum of £60 per annum, being ⅙ of an assured income, derived from giltedged securities, representing at 5% simple interest on capital of £1,200 (estimate of price at 20 years purchase) of which ⅓ to be paid on acquisition and the balance in the form of annual rent, <abbr>viz.</abbr> £800 plus 2½% interest on the same, repayable quarterly in equal annual instalments until extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase within a period of 20 years, amounting to an annual rental of £64, headrent included, the titledeeds to remain in possession of the lender or lenders with a saving clause envisaging forced sale, foreclosure and mutual compensation in the event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the messuage to become the absolute property of the tenant occupier upon expiry of the period of years stipulated.</p>
 			<p class="query">What rapid but insecure means to opulence might facilitate immediate purchase?</p>
-			<p>A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of 1 or more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 <abbr>hr.</abbr> 8 <abbr>m.</abbr> <abbr>p.m.</abbr> at Ascot (Greenwich time) the message being received and available for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 <abbr>p.m.</abbr> (Dunsink time). The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value (precious stone, valuable adhesive or unpressed postage stamps (7 shilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, <time datetime="1866">1866</time>: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, <time datetime="1855">1855</time>: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxemburg, <time datetime="1878">1878</time>), antique dynastical ring, unique relic) in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a commestible fowl). A Spanish prisoner’s donation of a distant treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged with a solvent banking corporation 100 years previously at 5% compound interest of the collective worth of £5,000,000 <abbr>stg</abbr> (five million pounds sterling). A contract with an inconsiderate contractee for the delivery of 32 consignments of some given commodity in consideration of cash payment on delivery at the initial rate of ¼<abbr>d.</abbr> to be increased constantly in the geometrical progression of 2 (¼d., ½d., 1<abbr>d.</abbr>, 2<abbr>d.</abbr>, 4<abbr>d.</abbr>, 8<abbr>d.</abbr>, 1<abbr>s.</abbr> 4<abbr>d.</abbr>, 2<abbr>s.</abbr> 8<abbr>d.</abbr> to 32 terms). A prepared scheme based on a study of the laws of probability to break the bank at Monte Carlo. A solution of the secular problem of the quadrature of the circle, government premium £1,000,000 sterling.</p>
+			<p>A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system the result of a national equine handicap (flat or steeplechase) of 1 or more miles and furlongs won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 <abbr>hr.</abbr> 8 <abbr>m.</abbr> <abbr>p.m.</abbr> at Ascot (Greenwich time) the message being received and available for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 <abbr>p.m.</abbr> (Dunsink time). The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value (precious stone, valuable adhesive or unpressed postage stamps (7 shilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, <time datetime="1866">1866</time>: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, <time datetime="1855">1855</time>: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxemburg, <time datetime="1878">1878</time>), antique dynastical ring, unique relic) in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a commestible fowl). A Spanish prisoner’s donation of a distant treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged with a solvent banking corporation 100 years previously at 5% compound interest of the collective worth of £5,000,000 <abbr>stg</abbr> (five million pounds sterling). A contract with an inconsiderate contractee for the delivery of 32 consignments of some given commodity in consideration of cash payment on delivery at the initial rate of ¼<abbr>d.</abbr> to be increased constantly in the geometrical progression of 2 (¼<abbr>d.</abbr>, ½<abbr>d.</abbr>, 1<abbr>d.</abbr>, 2<abbr>d.</abbr>, 4<abbr>d.</abbr>, 8<abbr>d.</abbr>, 1<abbr>s.</abbr> 4<abbr>d.</abbr>, 2<abbr>s.</abbr> 8<abbr>d.</abbr> to 32 terms). A prepared scheme based on a study of the laws of probability to break the bank at Monte Carlo. A solution of the secular problem of the quadrature of the circle, government premium £1,000,000 sterling.</p>
 			<p class="query">Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?</p>
 			<p>The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil, proposed in the prospectus of Agendath Netaim, Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, <abbr>W.</abbr> 15, by the cultivation of orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation. The utilisation of waste paper, fells of sewer rodents, human excrement possessing chemical properties, in view of the vast production of the first, vast number of the second and immense quantity of the third, every normal human being of average vitality and appetite producing annually, cancelling byproducts of water, a sum total of 80 <abbr>lbs.</abbr> (mixed animal and vegetable diet), to be multiplied by 4,386,035 the total population of Ireland according to the census returns of <time datetime="1901">1901</time>.</p>
 			<p class="query">Were there schemes of wider scope?</p>