El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTH YEAR, No. 194, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 1888 Page: 3 of 8
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R1 Paso Times. Wednesday, August 15,1888.
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H. C. Archer Traveling Passenger Agent.
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[Special Correspondence.]
Lokbox, July 90.—Sara Bernha-dt, with
all her strongmiudedncw, it superstitious is
the silliest of her professional sisters. The
reading of her play "La Toaca" waa fixed for
a Friday. She flatly refused to attend, and
at much inconvenience the company were
put off to a "luckier" day. Then she would
not act with M. Volny, for whom Sardou
had specially written a part, because ho had
"an evil eye." Sara will have nothing to do
with anyonowho squints. Another actor
hod to to substituted. When she played in
"Macbeth" she iusisted that the witches'
music would bring her misfortune, and it had
to be struck out. Adelina Patti dreads the
"evil eye," ami nothing could force her to
sing before u cross eyed conductor. Sho
swears that Offenbach—who had this afflic-
tion—brought bad luck with him wherever
he went, and she cites in proof the fatal fire
in the Paris Opera house during the only
performance of ono of Offenbach's ballets,
and tho sudden death of Mme. Berthelieu
while singing in another of his pieces. Jane
Hading is a believer , in the bad luck of the
No. 13.
Large fortunes are not now being made in
England,, and the probabilities are that thov
never will bo. Tho great manufacturers of
Lancashire and Yorkshire made their wealth
during the period following the develop-
ment of the steam engine and the introduc-
tion of free trade, extending from 1840 to
1870. Those men have been dying out very
fast in recent years, and last year thinned
tho ranks of the survivors very considerably.
Among them were Sir Joseph Whitworth,
the engineer and gun mak jr, who left f1,608,-
000. It must be remembered that these sums
represent tho personalty only, exclusive of
real estate. Samuel Fox, invoator and maker
of tho "paragon" umbrella frame, left
$855,000, Mr. Steddall. a Liverpool mer-
chant, leit $2,170,000; Mr. (i. F. Barbour, a
Manchester shipper of calico, $2,230,000,
and Mr. SchilizzI, a Greek shipper
in tho same city, $1,165,000. Alderman
Hose, of Manchester, m#de $950,0*0 by trade.
Jesse Ha worth, a cotton spinner, left $2,060,-
000, and James Barlow, in the same line,
$750,000; Joseph Fielden, a Yorkshire wor-
ded spinner, left $2,200,000; Mr. Perrin, the
locky grocer who patented Lea & Perrin's
Worcestershire sauce,left $3,325,000—all made
out of sales. The largest fortune left by a
Birmingham manufacturer was that of Mr.
Middlemoro, $800,000; two big railway con-
tractors, George Benton and Charles Waring,
left $3,025,000 and $2,760,000 respectively;
John Swift, the Welsh coal owner, left $1,-
925,000. Among bankers John H. Smith loft
$1,945,000, and Charles Cain $3,070,000. Oc-
tavius E. Coojie, the famous Loudon brewer,
left $2,710,000, and Mr. Berridge, of Meux &
Co., left a similar amount; Mr. Thomas Wat-
son, the silk manufacturer, left $910,-
000, and tho Right Honorable 1. K.
Cross, one of Mr. Gladstone's min-
isters, who hanged himself with a fishing
line, made $775,000 in his cotton factory. Sir
A. Mathescn left $3,220,000 besides an enor-
mous estate in Scotland. Ho had made his
money in the China trade. Lord Wolverton,
oartner in Glyun's bank; W. Russell Sturgis,
\V. Hugh McCalmont and Baron Stem left
over $15,000,000 each. They made their
plunder in the money market, aud it was ex-
ceedingly kintl of them to leave a few crumbs
for their less lucky successors in fluance
juggling.
Longevity agrees with t.he English aris-
tocracy; the obituary column of the fashion-
able fiaper shows an average, year after year,
of about 14 per cent, of deaths at over SO
years of age. Last year showed that 53 had
completed their 90th year, 8 their 95th year;
0 women died having completed their 96th
year, 8 their 97th, 5 their 98th, 4 their 99th,
2 their 100th, 1 her 102d and 1 man in his
106th. The old lady who died in her 101st
year was Mrs. Anne Penelope Hoare, mother
of two or three generations of bankers. Mrs.
Charlotte Pigot, aged 102, was a clergyman's
widow, and the patriarch, aged ltxi, was
Donald Young, of Kilflvan, Argyleshiro.
The birth registers in all these cases are per-
fectly authentic. Oscar Lynn.
Neglected tea stains vex the soul of the
careful housewife, who finds it almost im-
possible to get them out. Such stains should
be soaked in either milk or warm water as
soon as possible, and then soaped and rubbed
out. The next washing will efface them
wholly.
In Chicago a considerate young Sweda
sailor who was tired of life committed suicide
in a Mother Hubbard in order that a friend
rnieht have his clothes.
A Burslem (England) photographer re-
ceived back a proof from a customer with
the instruction that he was to do half a
dozon with the coat buttoned and half a
dozen with tho garment unbuttoned, the
same as tho proof.
A most remarkable coincidence in connec-
tion with a Berks county (Penn.) family,
Shilling by name, is that both parents were
born on Feb. 22, their marriage took place
on Feb. 32, and all of their six children (which
includes two sets of twins) were born on
Feb. 33.
A Manchester, N. H., young lady greatly
alarmed herself and family a few nights ago
by stepping upon a rusty nail, which pene-
trated her foot. Remedies and bandages
wore promptly applied, and, when morning
came, it was discovered that the uninjured
foot had received the treatment.
Recently, when off tho Western Islands,
Iceland, the captain of tho Danish mall steam-
er Laura threw overboard a letter written in
Danish. On May 6 th« letter was found in
tho stomach of a cod caught by a French
fisherman off Reykjan; , about 130 miles dis-
tant, Tho man showei 'to tho French con-
sul at Reykjavik, wh>' submitted it to tho
captain of tho Laura. It was much decom-
posed, but still readable.
It was one of the hobbies of Governor
Young, of Ohio, whose death occurred re-
cently, to keep what he called a "black
book," in which ho pasted every mean thing
that wasover said about him in the newt-
papers. Nevertheless he was a great friend
of the newspaper correspondents, among
whom he had a wide acquaintance.
Prince Blucher, a descendant of "Marshal
Vorwarts," recently brought suit for $400
damages, which he said he sustained by the
erection of stands for spectators in front of
hit house on the oooMionof Kaiser Wil helm's
funeral The standi blocked the view from
tome windows which the prince intended to
rent to spectators. The suit was deoided
aninst him.
WEST OVERLAND STREET
Finest Livery in the City
feed and Bale Stables. Corral Attached
M. A DOLAN, Proprietor
SMITH, HUBBARD & CO,
—WHOLES ALB—
Produce l Commission,
Oranges, Potatoes,
Butter, Lemons, Onions,
Cheese. Pine Apples . Cabbage,
Oleomargarine, Strawberries. Nuts,
Codfish. Herring, Halibut
satisfaction guaranteed in all cases.
MONARCH BLOCK, EL PASO, TEXAS.
Emerson & Berrien,
ELjJPASO, ..... TEXAS
Mattresses and Curtains made to order. Prices lower than elsewhere Large
>jtock in the Southwest. Det ermincd toseil,
First National Bank
.Cor. El Paso al Si Ho Streets,
THE MINT SALOON
Best Brands of Liquors and Cigars.
ID JO PLACE 1# HE CITY.
SI RYAN, Proprietor.
Coffin & Seeton
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR, GRAIN, HAY, FEED, ETC.
All kinds of Garden and Grass Seeds No. 306 EL PA80 STREET.
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El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTH YEAR, No. 194, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 1888, newspaper, August 15, 1888; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth503205/m1/3/: accessed April 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.