Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-08-08
THUMB NAIL. sI<eTcHEs.
A Few Notes from Across the Allan.
tic.


Especial Correspondence
LoNDev, July 20.-sara Bernhardt. with
oil her strongmindedness, is supcrstitious az
tho sillicst Of hor professional sisters. The
reading Of her play La Toscan was fixed for
a Friday. She fatty refused to attend, and
go much Inconvenience the company were
put of to "luckiern day, Then she would
not net with H. Nolny, for whom Sardou
had specially written a part, because he had
Fan evil eyen Sara will have nothing to do
with any one who squints Another actor
had to be substituted Whom she played in
Macbeth she insisted that the witches
music would bring her misfortune, and It had
to be struck out. Adelina Patti breads the
"evil eyer and nothing could force her to
sing before d cross eyed conductor She
swears that Onenbach--who had this afIiic-
tion-broueht had luck with him wherever
be went, and she cites Ia proof the fatal FIRE
in the Paris Opera house during the only
performance Of one Of Omenhach's ballots,
and the sudden death Of Mime. Berthelieu
while singing in another Of his pieces Jane
Hading is believer in the bad luck Of the
No. 13
Large fortunes are not now being made In
England, and the probabilities are that they
never will be. The great manufacturers Of
Lancashire and Yorkshire made their wealth
during the period following the develop
mont of the steam engine and the introduce
ton Of FREQ trade, extending from 1910 to
1870 Those men have been dying out very
fast in recent years, and Last year thinned
the ranks Of the survivors very considerably.
Among them were Sir Joseph Whitworth,
the engineer and gun maker, who left 81 Cos
900. It must be remembered that these sums
represent the personally only, exclusive OF
real estate. Samuel Fox, inventor and maker
Of tho paragon umbrella frame. left
SS55, 600. Mr. Steddall. Liverpool mer-
chant, left s., 900; Mr.. G. +. Barbour, a
Manchester shipper Of calico, S2,22O 600.
and Mr. Schilizzi, Greek shipper
in tho same city, S1,l65, 900. Alderman
Rose, Of Manchester, made Se5O,O0O by trade.
Jesse Haworth, q cotton spinner, left s., &c.
600, and James Barlow, I'M the same line,
S750,000; Joseph Fielder, a Yorkshire wor-
sted spinner, left g., 200 600; Mr.. Perrin, tho
lucky grocer who patented Lea g. PERKINS,
Worcestershire sauce, left 81, 8e5, 000-all made
ont Of sales Tho largest fortune left by a
Birmingham manufacturer was that Of Mr..
Middlemore, Ss00O00; two big railway con
tractors, George Benton and Charles Waring,
left s3025, 600 and s., 100000 respectively:
John Swift, the Welsh coal owner, left 81
1000. Among bankers John H. Smith left
s19i5,000, and Charles Cain 5000, 600 Dc
tavius z. Coope, the famous London brewer,
left Sc, 10000, and Mr.. Berridge, of Meux &
Co., left a similar amount; Mr.. Thomas Wat
son, the silk manufacturer, left SOLO,
600, and the Right Honorable I. X.
Cross, one Of Mr.. Gladstones min
listers, who hanged himself with a fishing
line, made S775,OOO in his cotton factory. Sir
A. Matheson left 6, 220 200 besides an enor-
nous estate in Scotland. He had made his
money in the China tsade Lord Wolverton.
partner in Glynn's bank; W. Russell Sturgis.
w. Hugh McCalmont and Baron Stern left
over Sl5,00O,OO0 each. They made their
plumber in the money market, and it was ex-
ceedingly kind Of them to leave few crumbs
for their less lucky Successors in finance
juggling.
Longevity agrees with the English aris-
tocracy; the obituary column Of the fashion
able paper shows an average, year after year,
Of about IA per cent Of deaths at over so
years Of age. Last year showed that 50 had
completed their Goth year, their 95th year;
women died having completed their 06th
year, s their 9th, 8 their 0Sth, their 99th,
2 their Tooth, her lO2d and l man in his
l06th. The old lady who died in her 10lst
year was Mrs. Anne Penelope Hoare, mother
Of two or three generations Of bankers. Mrs.
Charlotte Pigot, aged l02, was a clergyman's
widow, and the patriarch, aged l05 was
Donald Young, Of Kilfivan, Argyleshire.
The birth registers in all these cases are per-
fectly authentic. OSCAR LYNN.