Years ago there was a popular song which wound up (I forget the rest)
I love it, I love it and who shall dare To chide me for loving the old armchair? the said armchair hi been found to' contain in its lining a fat wad of banknotes, One is reminded of this in reading of the old lady who this week has proved her Lite to £5,000 by an ancient work-
A grocer at Brighton named Julian White had left this sum and the next of kin was being advertised for. There appeared before the Courts a Mrs. Ellen Smith, now 55 years old, wife of a road mender of Peckham. She had never seen her father, nor her mother since she was 11, In fact: he had lived, as a child, with re-natives and was only occasionally visited by her mother. However, she picked out the latter from an old album of photographs, and clinched the matter by producing a workbox engraved with her father's mother's name, which Mrs. Ellen Smith said her mother had given her, telling her to keep it carefully. The Judge had no hesitation in deciding that she had proved her title. She seems quite indifferent to her good fortune saying that her husband makes good money already. "Heaven sends nuts?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.