Telegram-herald., 1889-07-23

kegerU Instances 81 tessSLr tary ecoen-
tracy aoo11l. aEd he r1l-ea States ia
particular seems - te sing-lzT.y pro nc
- c~rlc-s Wa writes SiSEey Serops -
once Nsek s3ae Ats,e tiue slnoe Mr.
SoloLou SzAo3Tn. Il 1a1ford. AAss., LEFT
Is BODY - Tie lsls Prof Ag2ssI
11c Dr. Y. n Homes. 70 be prepared by
them 81 the most scientific manner kaoWn
10 anatomical ara sni piaee1 IL tie
museum q Harvard College Two drum
heads xers u oe II sts q tas sktn Upoa one
was ID De Inscribed Alexander Pops's
Universal Prayer ca tls q her the
Declaration II ln1epender &c 30 s11 then
they were 70 be rreseato. 70 the testalor's
cs-la gllshei friend. the drummer Of
to14sset. 1tis presentation was subject
70 the condition that On tie gth of 4as, al
sunrise, every year, tie drummer should
beat Vpon the dr. aheads e. tas foot cf
Bankers Hill the spirlI-srrrlas stratus II
yankee Doodle
Another Au4er-ean, who died within the
iast few uonths. by way OF revengs on bis
re.Et 1s. WHO had neglected him. be-
queatned % his brother his lett arm and
hand, 10 another brother his right arm sat
hand, TO another MS legs, nose ears. e,o
he als0 left one thousand dollars fer the
dismem0erirg of his hoy.
Among other tsstaio-. who have dis.
played ,his peculiar tendency 10 leave lega-
cles IN tue shape OF pCltsJns Of their bodies
may be mentioned Jeremy Bertham. tie
English writer, who bequeathed his boiy
10 TIE University College Hos~.ra'. with
instructions thar Lis skeleton .h7l.i be pre-
pared and cleaned, and that 4 s.oll0 pre-
side al the meetings OF the hospital directors.
Whether this provision was ever carried
cut IS doubtful, but It is certain that the
skeleton was preserved, aud may be seen
10 this day in the hospital museum
a wealthy German who died the other
day bsQueathed his efects 20 poor mar
whom he greatly dislked on condition that
he always wore linen uuder-clOthes and
dressed IL white, and short time ago
Stanislaus PC!tmarz, Hungarian, left the
greater part of his fortune to a notary
named Lott, forbidding him, however, 10
take POSSESSION until he had sung NJ La
Scala Opera House, the parts II vcrdrs
"Otello'' and ElviEain "Somnanbula:"while
John Reed, the gas-lightor Of the Walnut
Street Theater, Philadelphia, directed that
his head. after being duly prepared, should
be employed 70 represent the skull OF
Yorlck in Hamlet"
Lord NewbOrough, who died in November.
1SSS, directed that, after "A certain period
elGpses, his body Is 10 be exhuned and re-
inferred In Bartsey Island, which is reputed
TO have no fewer than twenty thousand
saints buried in its soil, and Mr.. John
Browne, OF Rathbane County, Limerick. re-
quired that his son, Rev. Peter Browne.
should under penalty OF iorfeiting a eonsid-
cradle estate, change his Christian name.
Peter for either "William' or "Jsmes.n
ho Il Il
ate dislike TO his sons name, while rich
saddler ordered in his Will that his daughter
should lose the whole of her fortune If she
did not marry a sadd.er. It turned OUT.
however, taat she married the Earl Of Hal.
fax, who in order TO win the bride, actually
served an apprenticeship of seven years to
a sadd,er.
Not long since Hr. Harper settled a hun
dred year on his young black cat" the
interest TO be paid TO his housekeeper, Mrs.
Hodges, as long as the cat remained alive;
and quito recently an old Partisan darne
left fifteen huu.-od a year to her butcher,
whom she had never seen; while one man
chalked his will on a corn-bin: and
another inscribed his on a Ded-post
Both the corn-bin and the bed
post are filed in the viii Office at Doctors
Commons, London. The whimsical will of
the Scotch gentleman, who begueathed to
each OF his daughters her weight in one
pound notes, has often been quoted. More
remarkable still is the will OF the New
Yorker who directed that his one and seven
" pairs Of trousers should be sold at public
auction without being examined before
hand. The sale was actually held. and tho
seventy-one purchasers found ia tho right
hand pocket the neat little sum OF thou
sand dollars in cash.
Another peculiar legacy was that Of
Colonel Nash, an English officer, who be-
qucathed an annuity of fifty pounds 10 tao
beil-r1ngers Of Bath Abbey, ON condition
that they should mGfle The clappers OF the
bells of t1e Abbey, aud ring them with dole
ful acceas7ati0l from eight a. n. 10 eight D.
m. on each anniversary OF his wedding dav;
while a Mr.. Luke, OF ROihernghan. after
leaving penny 10 every child who should
attend his funeral, directed that forty dozen
losves should be thrown down from the
parish church steeple st noon every Christ
mas day forever.