The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-24
BRAINS DO NOT PAY
STATISTICS OF FORTUNES LEFT
By 1000 PEOPLE IN TEN
YEARS
ART is ENTIRELY EXCLUDED
Bankers Head the List, and After
Them Come the Coal Owners and
Money Lenders The Earnings
of stock Brokers Not So Great as
SuppOsed-MOney Making Abil-
fty Is Apart From Artistic Talent.

of stock Brokers Not So Great as
SuppOsed-Money Making AbiI-
1ty Is Apart From Artistic Talent.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
An interesting table has recently been COM
piled which gives the fortunes left during the
past decade by Loco persons engaged in ten
Of the most lucrative businesses and profess
sions of Great Britain.
Art and literature are entirely excluded
from the list. and the learned professions,
law and medicine, are placed at the bottom
while music and drama are conspicuous by
their absence.
1t appears that during the last ten years
thirty eight foreign bankers and merchants
have left behind them H9, AIS, GS5, or the COM
Portable average of G512, 57S EACH
Cc2l owners, iron-masterg and engineers
to the number of Ito died possessed of the
respectable sum Of f240, 4S7 apiece.
Money-lenders run, coal owners very close,
for ninety-three of them died worth col
lectively f19, 444, SIS; while the 1913 manufac-
turers only possessed f2O9, 06S each
The rank and file of the brewing trade are
comparatively poor; 119 of them only left
f19,94S, S57, but three-ffths of this was owned
by seven individuals.
Newspaper proprietors, printers, publishers
and news agents to the number of 100 died
possessed of &109, GO a head.
The earnings of stock brokers are not so
large as is generally supposed, at all events
only left the moderate personality of fS,037,
$50.
Wine and spirit merchants and 6istillers to
the number Of 103 died possessed of nearly
f700C0 each, while 1G1 judges barristers and
solicitors had collectively accumulated rs, 573-
227. The sixty-seven physicians and surgeons
only left f3, S91,15
Artists actors and men of letters do not
leave sufficient, even the wealthiest of them -
says the stahstician naively ito be brought
within the purview of the compiler of great
personalities
The moral of it all is that what we are
pleased to term brains is the least lucra-
tive of all the accomplishments, unless the
owner also possesses what is known as com
mercial ability
The ability to make money as a general
rule is accompanied with any form Of talent.
The late w. Fl. Smith made fl. 700 coo out
OF selling newspapers, and it Is questionable
If there is a journalist in the world worth
f50,O00 made out of writing for papers.
If he makes Fl, 900 year he is successful:
II he earns Il: 500 he is in the front rank.
While II he receives an income of $4,000 he
is among the half dozen lucky ones of the
profession.
A capital Of EGO Judiciously invested in
fish, green's or secondhand clothes, provid-
ing the neighborhood is a suitable one, will
bring in its owner a certain ESQ per annun
after al expenses are paid, with the constant
chance, providing thrift is practiced for q
few years, Of a frst-class shop and an in
come running into five figures.
Take London, for instance. There is
scarcely a shopkeeper in Sloane street, Bond
street, Piccadilly, Regent street or oxford
street who is in receipt of less than f2.500 a
year, while there are more in these localities
in receipt of 10000 and upward than there
are Journalists and artists earning Fl COO per
annum.
Novelists and artists at the tiptop of their
profession certainly make money, but their
recompense for leaving a legacy of beauty
for the perpetual enjoyment of mankind is
not to be measured with that of shopkeepers
Sir John Millais, the most successful artist
of the day, was a rich man, yet he only ac-
cumulated 100000 against an average OF
f2lI450 made by the disciples of the profess
sion of which John Kirkwood was so distin-
guished an ornament.
One hears a great deal of the high salaries
Of members Of the dramatic profession. yet
last year out Of the 10000 bona fide actors
and actresses in Great Britain 1079 were re-
lieved by the Actors Benevolent fund, and
less than 100 were steadily earning f1.O00 d
year and upward, so the chances are that
one thespian out of every ten will have to
solicit charity.