Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-01-03
Some Curious wills.

The ST. LOUIS Republic, some time ago,
hal chapter uu wills, showing the tcsta-
inr, TO have possessed minds ,iugularly
constituted.
Ofjeu quoicd IS the Ici4sarkable will "l
solomon Sauboru. OF Mediord, Mas. who
died about fifteen years Sauborn WAS a
great patriot, and specially gloried in the
part Massachusetts took ia the revolution
ary struggle IN his will lie lcit his body
TO Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes aud Prof
4 gassi,. not. however. without imposing
some at The most unhear4 of provisions
and conditions. His skeleton be desired
prepared in the most artistic manner known
TO the profession. aid placed with the
many Others In the anatomical department
Of Harvard College. While preliminary
preparations were being made in carrying
out this extraordinary request, he desired
the surgeons To be very careful with the
skin SO that il could be tanned III pieces Of
sufficient size to make a pair of drumheads.
Upon one of these drumheads the Dee
laration of independence" was 10 l.e wit
ten. and upon the other Pope's Universal
Prayer" Fitted in its proper wooden
frame this ,S,-2stly relic was to be present
ed TO n local drAmmer, whom the testator
designates distinguished friend upon
condition that he would promise to carry
it To the foot of Bunker Hin monument on
each succeeding anniversary of the battle,
at sunrise. and beat upon it the invigora-
ting strains of ~ ankee Doodle
The skeleton of Jeremy Bcnthaui. in the
Hospital Museum, London, is there nt the
request of its owner who made a special
provision i'll his will 10 have it presented TO
the curators of the hospital, who, upon ac-
cepting tho gift, were to have the skeleton
mounted and put in the presidential chair
at each meeting of the hospital directors.
Dr. 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 for him 10 die-he had
little money, about 81 ,000-his brothers
became very kind. After his death. when
the will was read, the following remark
able clause was disclosed:
ITO nv brother, Napoleon Bonaparte, |
bequeath my left arm and hand; to George
Washington, my second brother, my right
arm and hand; to my other relatives my
legs. nose and ears. Ny money, 1000
cash, now i'll the B Bank, bequeath
to the physicians and surgeons who carry
out my request by dismombering my body
aud giving to each OF my relatives the por-
tion allotted to him or her.
Horatio c. 0nderdonk, brother of the
Bishop of New York, made provisions. in
his will which would have turned old
Draeo green with envy. Draeo was strict,
aud well understood the meaning of the
expression ruling with rod Of iron;" but
had Mr. 0nderdonk lived nj the time the
old man was preparing his famous code,
he could have helped to make it more bind
ing. The last paragraph in the 0nderdonk
will read as follows:
''No heir must be an idler sluggard,
profiigate, drunhard, gambler; use liquor
OF tobacco; 60 hunting or fishing on Sun
days; attend races; enter a barroom or por-
ter house neccct to rise, breakfast and
be ready for business by 8 o'clock; or get
married before he or she arrives Mt the age
of o1 wears