Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-14
WoNbskRuL. WILLS

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Testaihentaty Utteraneea That Kept the
Makers Momory Green. rae
Oft quoted is the veiarlsable will OF
Solomon Sanborn, OF Medford, Mass,
who died about fifteen years agd. San
born was a great patriot, and specially
glorified in the part Massachusetts took
in the revol utionarS struggle. In his
will he left his body to DR.. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes and Prof. Agassiz, not how
ever, without imposing some OF the most
unheard-of provisions and conditions
His skeleton no desired prepared in tho
most artistic manner known to the pro-
fession, and placed with the many others
in the anatomical departments OF Harvard
College. While preliminary prepara-
lions were being made in carrying out
this request, he desired the surgeons to
DO very careful with the skin, so that
it 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 Popo's
"Universal Prayer" Fitted in its proper
wooden frame this CHASTITY relic was to
be presented to o 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
niyersary of tho battle, at sunrise, and
beat upon 1t the invigorating strains OF
"Yankeo Doodle"
Tho skeleton OF Jeremy Bentham In
the Hospital Museum, London, is there
at the request OF its owner who mado
special provision In his will TO have 1t
presented to the curators OF the hospital
who, upon accepting the gift, were 70
have the skeleton mounted and put in
the presidential chair at each meeting
OF the hospital directors.
Dr.. Wagner, all American, Is up to or
even-ahead OF the English precedent in
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT idea. During his
life his relatives bad given him but lit
tie thought. When it came time for
them to die-he had little money,
about 81 ,0OO-his brothers became very
kind. After his death, when the will
was read, tho following remarkable
clause was disclosed:
ITO my brother, Napoleon Bonaparte,
I bequeath my left arm and hand; to
George Washington, my second brother,
my right arm and hand; to my other rel
ativos my legs, nose and ears. My
money, 81, 900 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. 0nderdonk, a 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 we'll understood
the meaning of tho expression ruling
with a 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 mako 1t more binding. The
last paragraph in the 0Rdepdonk will
road as follows: mo heir must be an
idler, sluggard, prohigatc, drunkard,
gambler; use liquors or tobacco; go hunt
ing or fishing on Sundays; attend races;
entera bar-room, or portor-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.