St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-07
RENARKABLE NIsERs.

oCAe,I- Dental aud Poverty.
There is every reason 70 believe that the
boards OF money and other valuables one so
often reads Of as being found by wOrkmen
while engaged in pulling down old houses
have been sesreted by misers; the, result is
that, In. many cases, property thus found is
taken possession Of by the person whom the
miser never intended TO beneft-namely,
tlieir Deirs-at-law and next Of kin.
Eis pretty certain tina. misers Of both
sexes existed years ago. as they DO IN our
oTn day, and the following notes concerning
some nsta5le examples OF this class Of mono
maniaes may not be uninteresting. OF those
who made it 4 rule Of their lives TO "gather
gear By every VILE" tie case OF N. oster-
valid, who died at Paris in 1921, IS femarka-
bic, as showing that the richest man In the
city may also be miserable one.
{ he was the son Of a poor minister, and
began life as a clerk in banking house at
Hamburg, where he acquired a small sum,
which be augmented by his speculations in
business and his economical mode Of living.
He afterward came 10 Paris, where be &C
cumulated his enormous fortune. He was
bachelor the expense Of wife and chill
dren being incompatible with his frugal state
OF living, He had for q servant q poor
wretch, whom he never permitted TO enter
his apartment: he had always promised that
at his death hc should be handsomely recon-
pensed, and accordingly he left pittance of
six months. wages and 3 suit of clothes, but,
as he expressly stated, ''not the most new"
A few days before his death some Of his &C
quintanee, who saw that he was reduced To
the last extremity by want Of nOurishment
proposed 10 him 10 have some soup. Eyes,
yes" he replied, lit IL easy 10 talk of soup
but what is TO become of the meat!'' Thus
died one who was reported TO be the richest
man in Paris, more from want of care aud
proper nourishment than from disease. He
is stated TO have left to relatives, whom he
probably had never seen, the sum of eS, 900,
600. Under his bolster was found 100000
livres in paper money.
A miser died in Paris in 1850 leaving
property supposed 10 be worth $50. Some
time elapsed before the heir presented him
self, but ON his doing so . search was made
in the miser's apartment and no less q sum
than $4,000 was discovered in 4 cup
board.
The case of the French miser strikingly
illustrates the Truth Of the line:
To heirs unknown deseends the I'M
guarded store,
Or wonders heaven directed to the poor.
A still more extraordinary case is that OF
an English lady, who died in 1876, in a lOdg
| ing house near Broadway, in Deptford, En-
gland, at the age OF 90. Her name was
Mary Luhorne. For upward of forty years
she lived in Greenwich and Deptford in the
most penurious manner, denying herself
the common necessities of life. She was
| known not 10 have any fire OF candle In her
/ apartment for fourteen years, prior 20 her
death. She frequently begged on the high
road when she went on business to the city.
Notwithstanding her wretched way of life,
after her death there were found securities
in the bank, South Sea, East India, and
other stocks 20 the amount of $780,
900 and upwards, besides Jewels aud other
precious stones, plate, china, clothes OF ev-
cry kind of the richest sort, great quantities
of the fine ST silks, linen, velvets, etc, IN
made, of great value, besides large sum OF
money. To whom all this treasure reverted
does not appear.
The neighborhood where Mary Luhorne
died seems to be still famous for its miseries
In 1877 there died at Woolwich, England, 8
John Clark, aged Sc years. He is described
as having been a man OF education, but &
very singular character. Although reputed
as immensely wealthy, be was very misery
in bis habits, and lived to the last in q
squalid howell in the poorest part of Wool
wich. The greater portion Of his life wa:
| spent in the accumulation of books, OF which
he left large store. II was reported that
the front shutters of bis house had not beer
| opened for thirty years. He never took 1
regular meal, nor did he know the taste oi
wines or spirits; yet notwithstanding that he
lived in such den and suffered such privs
tons, he reached an octogenarian age, anC
died worth $40, 900 or then eabouts.
An instance OF misery habits in the grea
and noble is to be found in the case of tina
renowned captain, the duke OF Marlborough
Of whom IL is ehronicled that, when in tn,
last stage OF life and very infirm, he wOulC
walk from the public room in Bath 10 hi
lodging on a cold, dark night, and save sir
pence in chair hire. He died worth 81, 500,
600.
II is recorded OF Sir Francis Lowther, tina
after changing piece of silver in George!
cofFeehouse and paying twopence for hii
dish Of coffee, he was helped into his chario
be was then very lame aud iniirm-anC
went home Some time after he returned Il
the same coffee house on purpose 10 acQuain
| MOuldu MuO ~ IL bu1l sue l1A SAfCA
him bad half-penny, and demanded an
other in exchange for II. Sir Francis 4
stated TO have then had about 5000, 600 pc
annum coming in, and was at loss whom
to appoint his heir.
Sir Thomas Colby,an official high in Office
shortened his existence by his passion 70
this worlds goods, as appears By the follow
ing anecdote: she rose in the middle o
the night, when he was In a very profus
perspiration, and walked down stairs to lool
for the key Of the cellar, which he had mad
vertently left on a table in the parlor. II
was apprehensive that his servant nigh
seize the key aud rob him of bottle Of por
wine, instead Of which he himself was seize'
with a chill and died intestate, leaving owe
81, 900, 900 in the funds. which was shared b
five OF six day laborers, who were his mex
kim Marvellous good luck for his poor re
lations.
At Mortified. England, there died IN ISL
a Mr.. Page, dealer in lime stone and gun
fiints, by which occupation and by a mos
penuriOus way Of living he had accumulate
fortune of 60,000- He lived alone in
large house for several years, no one comm
near him but an old woman, who once da
went to make his bed. His death was oC
casioned by running knife into the pair
OF his hGud while opening an oyster.-Ne
York TDlS.
''But John P. Robinson, he seq, they didn
know everythin' down in JUDGE" The
certainly knew little, IL they did not kno
that the safest, quickest aud most pleasar
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