, 1880-10-31

testators taking q malicious pleasure IN
'botherlng their executors, anu some 1lonl
want Of reflection in the changes and eVentu-
aIlties which time and circumstances are are
likely to bring about. ami which may len4el
it ultimately Impossible to carry our n1elI W
hests." OF these we shall quote only Ivy.
the first being that OF mathematical testa1ot
"A native OF Strasbourg, Fortunatus prey, ,
null, drew upa singular will going back to the
early age of s years. he stated therein [haI a. a.
that period his grandfather had let5 hln ma =
lad Increased to 500 This amount, which he
now proposed to deal with, he directed should
be divided into five portions, to belnveSted a1
the highest interest that can DC saie's W
tained. ,,,
'At the eud Of q century, us he had calcu-
lated, each accumulated portion might be
computed at $4,000 fivres, and when that
time should have arrived, portion No was
to be employed in rec}aimlng morass near
"No. 2 was to accumulate during second
| century, when it would have reached !.
600 |iyres. and was then to be employed Ill
founding eighty prizes for the encourage
"No 8, after third century, would rep,
resent 2,0, Goo 600 liyres, and WAS to BE- applied
to the establishing of 'Lomber-11ouses to
supply to industrious men loans withon9
twelve libraries III different cities. each en-
dowed with an income. OF 1oo,0o llVres Tor
the support of fifty scholars.
mo. i, ut the end OF 4 fourth century, was
| to be employed III building ana peopilng loo
new towns of 10000 inhabitants each, the
| sum OF thirty mllliards of liyres being, The
tesiator considered, sufficient for that pur-
| pose. ..
:" No. i, ut the expiration Of 500 years, would
have reached nearly 1000 nlilllards, and:was .as
| testator's country, the balance to be applied
| to that Of England, with Il cosmopolitan feel
| ing of gratitude for Newton's beautiful WORK,
| sThe Universal Art Of Arithmetic"
The other will which VIC propose to quote
| has obviously
| PUZZLED THE COMPILER OF THE BOOK,
| who, after describing the will as that Of Mr.
! Smith Willie, Of Pennsylvania. Immediately
| aIterwartl speaks Of the ''above city"-evl-
| IDENTIFY supposing Pennsylvania to be CITY
The will bears the date Of 1850, and is tran-
scribed rs follows:
"a somewhat puzzling task has devolved
| upon real or imaginary body Of men III the
f1bope citU [somc city Of Pennsylvanial,
Mr.. Willie having appointed as executors OF
sistlng Of all the householders in his native
| town, who can prove that they came honest
| ~ by their fortunes; each to receive Tor ms
trouble the sum of $500. He computes that
sssp saG 5 nssp es fs2ys BBsnt doubts
| "'rhe will itself is thus lllQ1ted:
"'Seeing that have no direct descendants,
| and that / am wholly unacquainted with
those may possess coldterally, bequeath
my fortune to any one among them who, in
the course of twelye-month from the date
Of my death, may distinguish himself by an
act OF heroisln worthy Of ancient times
"'In case none of my collateral descend
ants be justified in making. this claim, 1
then leave all possess to be divided between
all the women who can prove that they have
been my mistresses, be it for ever so brief a
Lpcriod.'"
| OF the
"w14Ls IN OBSOLETE LANGUAGE AND
E1s1E,''
| which fnrm fha contents of Chap, w., the