Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-28
WONDERFUL WILLS.


Parliamentary Utterances That Kept th0
Makers Memory Green.
Often quoted is the remarkable will OF
Solomon Sanborn, of Medford, Mass,
who died about fifteen years ago. San
born was great patriot, and especially
gloried in the part Massachusetts, took
in the revolutionary struggle. In his
will he left his body to DR.. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes and Prof. Agassiz, not,
how ever, without imposing some of the
most unheard-of provisions and condi-
tions. His skeleton he desired prepared
in the most artistic manner known to
the profession, and placed with the
many others in the anatomical depart
ment of Harvard College. While pre-
Iminary preparations were being
made in carrying out this extraordi-
nary request, he desired the sur
geon to be very careful with the skin so
that it could be tanned in pieces Of suf-
hcient size to make a pair of drum
heads. Upon one of these drumheads
the Declaration Of Independence" was
to be written, and upon the other Pope's
Universal Prayer" Fitted in its prop
er wooden frame this CHASTITY relic was
to be presented to local drummer whom
the testator designates distinguished
friend, upon condition that he would
promise to carry it to the foot of Bunker
Hill monument on each succeeding an
niversary of the battle, at sunrise, and
beat upon it the invigorating strains Of
yankee Doodle"
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham in
the Hospital Museum, London, is there
at the request of its owner, who made a
special provision in his will to have it
presented to the hospital, who upon &C.
cepting the gift were to have the skele-
ton mounted and put in the presidential
chair at each meeting of the hospital di-
rectorS.
DIR. Wagner, an American, is up to or
even ahead of the English precedent in
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT idea During his
life his relatives had given him but little
thought. When it came time for him to
die-he had little money, about 81. 900
his brothers became very kind. After
his death, when the will was read, the
following remarkable clause was dis
closed:
''To my brother. Napoleon Bonaparte,
I bequeatn my left arm and hand; to
George Washington, my second brother,
my right arm and hand; to my other rel
q u rCS uAy ICS ,, uOSO dAo col .. ~ luOnCy,
81, 900 cash, now in the B. bank, I
bequeath to the physicians and surgeons
who carry out my request by dismem-
bering my body and giving to each of
my relatives the portion allotted to him
or her,
Horatio G. Onderdonl,, brother of the
Bishop of New York, made provisions in
his will which would have turned old
Draco green with envy. Draco was
strict and we'll understood the meaning
of the expression ''ruling with rod Of
iron," but had Mr.. Onderdonk lived at
the time the old man was preparing his
famous code he could have helped to
make it more binding. The last para
graph in the Onderdonk will read as fol-
lows: mo heir must be an idler. slug
gard, profigate, drunkard, gambler; use
liquors or tobacco; go hunting or fishing
on Sundays; attend races; enter a bar
room or porter-house, neglect to rise,
breakfast and be ready for business by
nine o'clock, or get married before he or
she arrives at the age of twenty-five
years. st. Louis Republic.