Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-17

for fear the sheriffs should not be provided" A Mir. Lloyd of Twickenham, left
 Sssys to Ess PGa,sts 3ta fg sesond
 adding that
 "Though past my score and fifteenth year.
 With spirits gay, and conscience clear.'
 Often the eccentricity of the testator Is ungallantly directed to throwing 8 parting shaft at his wife, or to ignoring the partner of his life altogether. A learned man, one Dr. Bell, left very large sum of money to pay for eulogistic life of himself, and not penny to his wife. Another ''gave unto my wife, Mary Darley, for picking my pocket of sixty guineas, the sum of one shilling" One of the Earls of Strafford revealed his feelings toward his spouse-who had been great court belle in her day-in the follow ing passage in his will: CT give to the worst of women, who is guilty of all ills, whom have unfortunately married, five nd-forty brass half pence, which will buy her bullet for her supper-a greater sum than her father can often make for her.n
 Often, instead of bequeathing property to their human friends, testators will leave it to be devoted to the care of pet birds or dogs or other animals. A Mir. Hunter left "to my beloved parrot, the faithful con- panion of 25 years, an annuity for It's life of f20e to be paid half-yearly to whomsoever may have the care of it and prove its iden- tity"; the parrot was to be provided with ..a high, long, and large cage," and was may be taken for granted that this lucky bird was never afterward wanting in plenty of painstaking friends. Another wealthy man, named Garland, had the following clause inserted in his will: ''I bequeath to my monkey, my dear and amusing Jocko, the sum of e10,000 per annum, to be em- ployed for his sole use and benefit; to my faithful dog Shock, and my we'll beloved cat Tib, pension of %; and desire that, in case of the death of either of the three, the lapsed pension shall pass to the other two between whom it shall be equally divi- ded.
 Some testators have an overfowing fancy for bequeathing their own bodies for various purposes. The story is well known of the patriotic American who enjoined in his will that after his death his body should be hayed ,the skin carefully removed and tanned, and that of this two drums should be made. A sum of money was then left to any person ! who would take these drums to the top of Bunker Hill monument on each Fourth of July, and there play tattoo on them. Still ! more strange was the idiesyncrasy of a Frenchman who, having been rejected by his sweetheart, resolved to put an end to his | existence. He gave instructions in his will ! that his body should be boiled down and the | fat extracted. Out of this @ candle should ! be made; and the candle with letter from | him was to be sent to his cruel lady-love, so that she could read his last reproaches by the light derived from his own body. l We often hear of wills being made which bestow large and sometimes enor- l nous sums upon colleges, hospitals, and { other educational or charitable institutions. \ Much more minute, but none the less
 sweet-hearted and kindly, were the gifts
 left by certain MT. Tuke. He left penny
 to every boy and girl who went to his fun. eral, which resulted in @ ooncourse of ovel
 seven hundred children. He also left (
 shilling to every poor woman in the town half guinea to the bell ringers, and { each to the men who buried him. But the most interesting of Mir: Tuke's bequesti was the setting aside of certain sum
 the interest of which was to be spent or
 forty dozen penny loaves of bread Thes' were to be "thrown from the steeple of thu
 parish church at noon on every Christina
 day forever"
 A certain notary lived at Buda-P -Pestn
 the capital of Hungary, who had the goo, ] fortune-or, as it may be thought, the il
 fortune-to possess remarkably fine sing ing voice. A rich friend of his who ad mired his tuneful tenor tones left the no
 tary the larger portion of handsome fort , une; but upon one condition. Before b ,, could touch forin of his money the notar , ! must sing, either in La Scala Opera house 5 Milan or the San Carlo at Sonnambuls. TT l rich friend added in his will the consol
 ] tory reflection that Eff the public hiss
 1 him he can easily comfort himself with tf
 5000, 900 of forins which have left him ? It is fortunate that there is no sequel to tt anecdote apprising us whether the notar r l fulfilled the somewhat difficult condition 1 the will.
 Still more queer, perhaps. is the case of 8 wealthy English farmer who left 9700 | the first man bearing his own name wh ] should marry @ woman of the same nam
 and the money was to be paid immediatel v after the wedding. It appears that in tn 9 case at least man with the necessary requ . site came forward, fulfilled the condition an l. received his reward.
 8 Revenge for some slight often takes tl l. form, in final dispositions of property, n' f only of cutting off bequest to the ofende :. | but of a sarcastic castigation of the oHens
 One Aylett Stow, late in the last centur d guineas iu the purchase of a picture of u Q viper biting the benevolent hand of a pc s son who had saved him from perishing n the snow and that they do, in memory - me, present to -, Esq, kings cou V sel, whereby he may have frequent o a | portunities of contemplating on It. Tn n is in lien of legacy of s3 GOO which 1 h. r- by former will, now revoked and burn
 left him.
 \ Wifely affection, perhaps, was never mo ol gracefully expressed than in clause of t l. will of certain Lady Palmerston, an a '- cestress of the celebrated Lord Palmersto
 where she said: "As I have long given y, le my heart, and my tenderest affections a v fondest wishes have always been yours,
 is everything else I possess. And all that can call mins being already yours, ha V nothing to give but my heartiest thanks se the kindness and care you have at any til 'o shown me either in sickness or health,
 which God Almighty will, I hope, rewa
 you in a better world" Among other ne guests, Lady Palmerston left her husba ea two chocolate cups, (which I wish you woI ,f sometimes look on as 8 remembrance to death, and also of the fondest and faithful so friend you ever had"
 That even the wisest man may sometin
 err in performing task to which he is
 miliarly accustomed may bs seen by { - fact that the last will of Lord St. Leonar et perhaps the greatest English real estate Is .d yer of this century, was set aside beca it was not legally drawn. On the ot
 hand, the wisdom of simplicity itself lies ar a will recently proved in London, which
 probably the shortest will ever made. r. runs as follows: "I leave Mrs. S. all e possess" While Lord St. Leonard's tes a- ment was broken, this latter brief will, af M lMis being sharply contested, was admitted to e11 good one.