The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-13

spondent has transmitted us the following amusing
account of the devisory cccentricities of female
lately deceased in France
''Some weeks ago lady of remarkable beauty,
but rather angular morals, died in one of the
burbs OF Paris. She WAS known to possess large
property, and, there members of her fam
lily within call seals were placed upon her fur niture,
and her house was locked up until the time required
by the law should elapse. AT the expiration Of
this period, the mayor took an inventory of the
deceased ladys personal property, and ordered her
hbrary-which was quite extensive one--to be
cataogued. The mayor discovered, in the course
of his Investigations, chat she had been married six
years BEFORE but had never lived with her husband,
and that she enjoyed an annual income Of thirty
thousand francs. In putting her books in order,
paper was found, duly witnessed and signed,
which turned out to be her WILL by which she left
all her property to officer Of huzzars. The
mayor observed that the document in question
dated some Blk years back, and being himself
married man, and considerably versed in the SUBJ
tleties and eccentricties OF the female character,
surmised that it had probably been neutralized by
another of later date. From volume of Rousseau
dropped will No. 2, in which the huzzar was diehed
in favor of a dancing-master This instrument
dated two months later than the preceding. But
the dancing master was disinheritcd for lawyer,
conformably to the conditions of will No. 3. The
principle of rotation in Office was never more sy ste
maticay carried out for the lawyer cut off with
shilling, and a portrait painter made the lady's
universal legatee by an authenticated documement.
will No. 4. Then came doctor, dragon, holy
frar, banker, q wine dealer, a railroad director,
dry goods merchant, beet-sugar manufacturer;
all these individuals, representing all the profess
sions and all the grades of society, successfully
came in for the lady's worldly goods, each dispos-
sessing his predecessor, and in his turn being elm
mated himself. Atevery new attachment that took
possession Of this generous lady heart she indited
another and another last will and testament.
The mayor became considerably interested in fol-
lowing out this extraordinary sequence. He had
some curiosity to know who was the last, or ii, in
fact, there any end at all to the chain. The
thirty second will was found to bear the date of
July, about two months before the lady's decease
AS no thirty third could be found, the gentleman
partcularized in number thirty two, painter in
pastels, was informed by the mayor of his unex-
pected good fortune. He congratulated himself
upon having been last where person of an ord-
narily constituted mind would have desired to be
fret. He spent his wealth in imagination, and set
himself to work to paint the image of his bcnefac
tress from memory. But his gratitude was of short
duration The husband suddenly doomed up from
the obscurity that had shroudcd him for the last
half dozen years armed witha contract of marriage.
This instrument of torture bristled with signatures
and OSCILLATIONS, each one of which was illegblo
TO carry conviction to the most obdurate intelli-
gence. IL seemed TO have occupied its long period
of leisure in sproung clots of sealing in odd
corners and out of the way places. The gist OF the
matter that, by the articles of marriage, 1t was
agreed that either should die before the othera
highly probable contingency, by the way--the
vivor should succeed to the others right thereto.
II is impossible to suppose, for an infant, that the
lady was ignorant OF this fatal clause Instead,
therefore, OF occupying herself in testamenary la
Dor at the moment when her heart was full of those.
sweet emotions which would naturally be inspired
by a nascent intercourse with a beet sugar grow
or, il was probably at the very moment that she
got tired of his society and thought of supersedng
him, that she composed the document number II.
II was not meant as joyous peal, ringing the new
year but harsh dolefu chant, tolling the old
year out. But the lady has at last been toled out
herself, and it would perhaps have been more char
liable to have drawn curtain over her fraitics,
than thus to have made them subject for COM
nNpn md ntr i.t,,r I hall oh, thpref
from any further alluson to her errors and eccen-
tricites''