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Show nim in possesion of 160,000. It is an extraordinary revolution in the fortunes for-tunes of an unambitious man, and all the more extraordinary, perhaps, because be-cause it was quite unexpected. Mr. Russell is a shrewd, level-headed Londoner, Lon-doner, who is 'under no apprehension that he will be tempted to squander his fortune. London Chronicle. Two Uncle, in the United State. Enrich an Englishman in Need. To few men is it given to make a fair competence, lose it, and suddenly and without expectation find two fortunes for-tunes thrown at their feet That has been the experience of Mr. Joseph Samuel Stadden Russell. At the De-ginning De-ginning of this year he was employed in the humble capacity of groom; today to-day he is in possesion of a fortune of 160,000, most of it invested in freehold free-hold property in New York and Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. The story has most of those elements of romance with which the popular imagination clothes the unexpected unex-pected acquisition of wealth. As in so ny other cases, it is the rich uncle in America-would there were more of them! who has played the part of a generous Providence. In Mr. Russell s case however, there were two uncles, but from neither did he entertain any expectations of an inheritance. One lived in Pittsburg, the other n New York- one was his uncle on his father's fath-er's side, the other was the brother of his father's second wife. Mr. Russell himself was born in London, "within the sound of Bow bells," but he has spent fully thirty years in the States. Both his uncles went out there when very young and very poor, but they rapidly advanced and became considerable consid-erable property-owners. Recently Mr. Russell returned to this country and started a public house at Maidstone, at the same time depositing all the money mon-ey he had saved in America with Dum-bell's Dum-bell's bank. , When the bank failed he lost everything, and at 50 had to face the world penniless. It was then that he took a place as groom-, but he had not been long in that situation when the news came that his father's brother broth-er had left him a fortune, which was originally stated to be 50,000-odd, but in reality came to be something more, nearly approaching 100,000. That, however, did not exhaust Mr. Russell's luck. Only the other day he received intimation from a firm of so-liciotrs so-liciotrs in New York that his uncle-in-law had bequeathed , to him a sum which, with the previous windfall, put |
