Big Fortune for a Chimney Sweep

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Big Fortune for a Chimney Sweep

A chimney sweep and nine other persons of humble calling and iror fortune in France have fallen heirWb an immense fortune left in the United States by one of their kindred, called Firmin Nippert, who has died intestate. The fortune is stated to amount to £1,600,000, and when that sum is calculated ia francs it must appear an enormouo accumulation to the average French workman. Nippert visited Prance a year ago, and he had the naturalness of heart to search out at least one of his relatives and to entertain him sumptuously at dinuer. It was the sweep who was thus favoured. Probably his host said nothing to him about his millions of dollars and his misfortunate of not having direct heirs. At all events, the sweep, when informed by a lawyer of his expectations, laughed outright at the information as so much humbug, and it required a little serious talking to persuade him that his sooty occupation might now be abandoned. The heirs are widely scattered over all the points of the compass in France, and the lawyers will no doubt enjoy rich pickings before the final apportion--xnent is completed. The lawyers on the otherside of the Atlantic will also enjoy their slices of cake, and perhaps in the end; the heirs may fall to quarrelling and grumbling among themselves, and pass the remainder of their lives unhappily.

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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 11, 10 July 1890, Page 4

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