FIVE HUNDRED FIRST COUSINS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 15

FIVE HUNDRED FIRST COUSINS.

An ■unclaimed forluna orcms to have a stimulating offoct on the human .memory. Lab ytai", an old IriahaiKii of Brooklyn, one Patrick' White died intcslntc. Apart, horn the circumstance that he loft pro. pcrty worth £*0,000, his existence, or his dcccuKc, was jjroliably of no particular intur( >i t in Wcxfonl, the place of lii-s biiili, or in any other 'port of Ireland. But the £40,000 had to go somewhere, nnd the next cf kin bciin; lulvertiFctf for, tlio^c ncrsons c.'.'ni; trooping to the front, r.< it singly but in batlnlicn-. _ It I urns out that Mr. VVhito ha>l 500 velativea, ivnd tlrtl no fewor than 500 of thoso have tho proud privilngo of being fir.L cousins of the deccusod. Probably Mr. Whito was unawuro that Proyidonco had endov^cd him go bountifully in tho matter of cousins, and if his shaiio in of a humorous bon'>, it may perhapH find sardonic palisfaction in tin fact that if tlipy Bharo and share alike, oceh will got about in little .is In 1 (Icscr.ru. Ono of the L-laimante in an old man named •lames Nolan, an inmato of the CVlbridgo Union Hospital, County Dublin. , \t uen brought to Dublin to give evidence-

beforo Ihe American commisKion of enquiry, Nolan expressed tho wißh that he had been "left whero ho \va3 comfortahlo and well enough," and declared that ho "had not a minute's peaco or case since ilio infernal thing turned up and dostrojed his pcaco of vnind "