Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-05
WONDERFUL WILLS.
Parliamentary Utterances That Kept

Gestomentary Utterances That Kept the
Makers MemOrvr Green.
Oft quoted is the remarkable will Of
Solomon Sanborn, of Medford, Mass,
who died about fifteen years ago. San
born was great patriot, and specially
glorified in the part Massachusetts, took
in the reyol utionary struggle. In his
will he left his body to DIR. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes and Prof. Agassiz, not, how
ever, without imposing some of the most
unheard-of provisions and conditions
His skeleton he desired prepared in the
most artistic manner known to the pro-
fession, and placed with the many others
in the anatomical Departmental Harvard
College. While preliminary prepare
lions were being made in carrying out
this request, he desired the surgeons to
be very careful with the skin, so that
1t could be tanned in pieces of
sufficient size to make pair of drum
heads. Upon one of these drum-heads
the Declaration of independence was to
be written and upon the other Pope's
Universal Prayer" Fitted in its proper
wooden frame this CHASTITY relic was to
be presented to local drummer, whom
the testator designates distinguished
FRIEND" upon condition that he would
promise to carry it to the foot of Bunker
Hill monument on each succeeding an
niversary of the battle, at sunrise. and
beat upon it the invigora ting strains of
yankee Doodle"
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham in
the Hospital Museum, London, is there
at the request of its owner, who made a
special provision III his will to have it
presented to the curators of the hospital,
who, upon accepting the 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 lit
tie thought. When it came time for
them to die-he had a little money.
about 81, O00-his brothers became very
kind. After his death, when the will
was read, the following remarkable
clause was disclosed:
TO my brother, Napoleon Bonaparte,
l bequeath my left arm and hand; to
george Washington, my second brother,
my right arm and hand; to my other rel
atives my legs, nose and ears MY
money, $1,000 cash, now in the B.
bank, bequeath to the physicians and
surgeons who carry out my request by
Remembering my body and giving to
each of my relatives the portion allotted
to him or her.
Horatio G. Onderdonk, brother of
the Bishop of New York, made provis-
ions in his will which would have
turned old Draco green with envy
Draco was strict and well understood
the meaning of the expression sruling
with rod of iron," but had Mr. Onder-
donk lived at the time the old man was
preparing his famous code he could have
helped to make it more binding. The
last paragraph in the Onderdonk will
read as follows: mo heir must be an
idler, sluggard, profigate, drunkard,
gambler; use liquors or tobacco; go hunt
ing or fishing on Sundays; attend races:
enters bar-room, or porter-house; neg
lect to rise, breakfast, and be ready for
business by nine o'clock, or get married
before he or she arrives at the age of
twenty-five years. st. Louis Republic.