The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-06-08

the ground of his deficiency Of testi-
mentary capacity. The will contained
the clause: I'm consequence of the il
behavior and bad conduct of my wife |
cut her of with one shilling, and she is
not to have either hand, act or part in
management, supporting or educating
of my children" The evidence showed
that the deceased was jealous OF his
spouse, who, at the time of the mar
riage, was eighteen years OF age while
he was seventy. The jury found
verdict establishing the will. Henry.
Earl OF Stafford, again. inserted the
following in his testamentary DISPOSE
ton: II give to the worst OF women.
who is guilty of all ills-the daughter
of MIR. Grammont. a Frenchman-
whom have unfortunately married,
fve-and- forty brass half-pence, which
will buy her pullet for her supper
greater sum than her father can
often make over to her-f0r l have
known when he had neither money
nor credit for such purchase, he
being the worst of men and his wife
the worst of women in all debaucheries.
Had known their characters l had
never married their daughter nor made
myself unhappy"
A German bequeathed his effects to
a poor man, whom he intensely dis
liked, on condition that he always wore
linen underclothes without any addi-
tional undertaking; while John Reed,
the gas-lighter of the Walnut Street
Theater, Philadelphia, concluded his
will thus: my head to be separated
from my body, duly macerated and
prepared, then to be employed to rep
resent the skull of Yorick, in the play
of Hamlet" Stanislaus Poltmarz left
the greater part of his fortune to a
Hungarian notary, forbidding him,
however, to take possession until he
had sung in La Scala or San Carlo OPP
era houses the parts of Rossinfs Otctto
aud Eluiro in Somnambula. He was
eighty years old when he executed the
will and wrote: II do not dispose OF
my wealth in this manner for the sake
Of being thought original; but having
been present four years ago at an even
ing party in Vienna, heard Mr.. Lott
(the notary sing cavatina from
each of the operas with beautiful
tenor voice, therefore / believe him
likely to become an excellent artist.
J In any case, if the public Kisses him.
he can console himself easily with the
J 5000. 600 forms, which l leave him. "
. In 1905 Mr.. Edward Hurst left very
! large fortune to his SON on condition
that the latter should seek out and
marry young lady whom the father,
according to his own statement. had,
, by acts for which he prayed forgive
ness, reduced to the extremity OF pow
; erty; or failing her. her nearest un-
, married female heir. The latter. by
the irony of fate, turned out to be a
spinster OF fifty-five years, who, pro-
Tossing herself willing to carry out her
share of the imposed duty, was duly
} united to the young man who had just
reached his majority. Somewhat sim
r liar to the above was the will of Mr..
> Furstone, who left $1,000 to any man
: legitimately bearing the name EUR
stone" who should discover and MARI,
4 a Furstone.
Many valuable requests have beer
, made to dogs and other domestic pets
0 The will of one Garland. who died il
!. June, 1888, contained this clause: %
, bequeath for my monkey, my dear ant
: amusing Jocko, the sum of f100 pc
8 annum. to be employed for his sole u.s.
r and benefit; to my faithful dog, Shock
t and my well-beloved cat, lib, a pension
!, of f5; and desire that, in the case o
r the death or either of the three, tn
4 lapsed pension shall pass to the othe
two, between whom it shall be equal,
= divided. On the death of all three, tn
o sum appropriated shall become tn
8 property of my daughter Gertrude, t.
n whom give this preference among M
d children because of the large famil
!. she has, and the difficulty she finds il
n bringing them up" A Mrs. Elizabetl
: Hunter, in 1918, left two hundred a yea
t to her parrot; and Mr.. Harper settle
one hundred per annum on his ''youn
r black cat" the interest to be paid t
> his housekeeper, Mrs. Hodges, as lon
It as the cat remained alive. DIR. Chris
y tiana, of Venice, again, left 5000
g forms for the maintenance of his tire
n dogs, with condition that. at thei
death. the sum should be added to tn
le funds of the University of Venice.
An old Partisan lady bequeathe
d fifteen hundred year to her butcher
Is whom she had never seen; while on
"a man chalked his will on a corn biz
ID and another inscribed his on be(
IS post. Both the corn-bin and the be(