The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-06-13

uSFCSG dH6cLlOnS ana IOndGSt wishes
have always been yours, so is every
thing else that possess; and all that /
can call mine being already yours,
have nothing to give but my heartiest
thanks for the care and kindness you
have, at any time, shown me, either in
sickness or in health, for which God
Almighty will, l hope, reward you in a
better world. Then for ''formis sake"
follow several specific requests.
AS specimen of the opposite sort
we may first of all instance the will of
Mr.. Rogers, of Dublin. In April, 1888,
Mrs. Rogers disputed her husbands
will in the Dublin Probate Court on
the ground of his deficiency of testi-
mentary capacity. The will contained
the clause: In consequence of the il
behavior and bad conduct of my wife
cut her off 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
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riage, was eighteen years of age while
he was seventy. The jury found a
verdict establishing the will Henry,
Earl of Stafford, again, inserted the
following in his testamentary DISPOSE
ton: Il give to the worst of women,
who is guilty of all ills-the daughter
of Mr.. Grammont, a Frenchman-
whom I have unfortunately married,
five-and-forty brass half-pence, which
will buy her a pullet for her supper
greater sum than her father can
often make over to her-for I 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 l known their characters [ had
never married their daughter nor made
myself unhappy"
A German bequeathed his effects to
poor man, whom he intensely dis
liked, on condition that he always wore
linen underclothes without any addi-
tional lunderclothing; 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 op-
era houses the parts of Rossini's OtelIo
and EEUtro in Somnambula. He was
eighty years old when he executed the
will and wrote: 81 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 a cavatina from
each of the operas with beautiful
tenor voice, therefore I believe him
likely to become an excellent artist.
In any case, if the public Kisses him,
he can console himself easily with the
3,0OO,0O0 hOrins, which | leave him.
In 1906 Mr.. Edward Hurst left very
large fortune to his son on condition
that the latter should seek out and
marry a 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-fve 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
liar to the above was the will of a Mr..
Furstone, who left G7,000 to any man,
legitimately bearing the name Fur
stone, who should discover and marry
a Furstone.
Many valuable bequests have been
made to dogs and other domestic pets.
The will of one Garland, who died in
y NAOp 4OOOg bn16 ClduS0s
bequeath for my monkey, my dear and
amusing Jocko, the sum of G1O0 per
annum, to be employed for his sole use
and benefit; to my faithful dog, Shock,
and my well-beloved cat, Tib, q pension
of f5; and desire that, in the case of
the death or either of the three, the
lapsed pension shall pass to the other
two, between whom it shall be equally
divided. On the death of all three, the
sum appropriated shall become the
property of my daughter Gertrude, to
whom I give this preference among my
children because of the large family
she has, and the difficulty she finds in
bringing them up" A Mrs. Elizabeth
Hunter, in 1913, left two hundred a year
to her parrot; and Mr.. Harper settled
one hundred per annum on his ''young
black cat, " the interest to be paid to
his housekeeper, Mrs. Hodges, as long
as the cat remained alive. DIR. Chris
tiana, of Venice, again, left 10000
forms for the maintenance of his three
dogs, with a condition that. at their
death, the sum should be added to the