Strange but Untrue.
A few years ago a wealthy New York reporter happened to get into a theatre— on a complimentary ticket. Immediately in front of him was a tall young lady who was wearing one of those three-storey hats with a bay window and a flower garden on the roof. The journalist made frantic efforts to see what was happening on the stage, but that entire end of the theatre was eclipsed by the hat. The young lady who wore the hat perceived that it was a source of annoyance to the jour-
nalist, so she kindly removed it and held it in her lap during the entire performance.
A few days afterwards the journalist caught cold, and was prostrated by pneumonia. Perceiving that his last hour was about to approach, he made his will, and a few days afterwards he was removed to Greenwood cemetery with great pomp.
When his will was opened it was discovered that he had left the lady who had so considerately removed her headgear in the theatre the sum of 475,96i,329,487d0l and 25cents, the latter amount being in actual cash, N.B.— Cut this out and put it in your vest pocket, and if you should happen to sit behind a lady with a tall hat in the theatre, hand it to her to read. — Texas siftings.
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Otago Witness, Issue 181, 6 August 1886, Page 35
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