The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-15
RaInN Gnrlnus Wllla.


 There Is a refreshing quaintness about some old bequests. Walter le Talllour. for instance. In 1905, accord ing to the will recorded in the city of London Court of Husting. left to Rich ard, his son, the reversion of tene- ment held by Richard le Bakere for life, receiving yearly. immediately af- ter the testator's death a rent Of half a mark and weekly one penny tart in respect of the said tenement" He al- so left fourpence to London bridge. There is, however. a spirit of geniality about this will which is very different to that of the man who left his son-in- law "one penny to buy him whistle"
 The single shilling has, of course. been left in a large number of cases. but we do not hear of a receipt being given for the money. Yet in 1899 Rich ard Harrington of Guided Morden, in Cambridgeshire,l left his daughter Mary Martin, and her husband one shilling each, and his executrix paid it and got the receipt, still in existence, dated March IT. 1700 There is a man who in 1791 left his wife shilling to be paid to her, within six months after his death i; and as his reason for doing so remark ed, seeing that I have had the mis- fortune to be married to the aforesaid Eliza beth, who ever since our union has tormented me in every possible way" A good many single shillings have been left as a cheap advertise fnent with the object of keeping the testator's name alive, nuch ill the style of the man at Wath who left, among other ct ceteras, shilling to every poor woman in the parish, a guinea to seven navvies for pudding him up in his grave" a guinea to the old woman who had tucked him up in his bed" and forty dozen penny loaves to be thrown from the church roof every Christmas day for ever" Of this kind of thing there are many examples, but most of the shillings, sixpences, pennies and penny buns have to be displayed in all their glory on the testa- tors tombstone.
 One man leaves his money to his son lon condition that he shave off his moustache;" another leaves his to his nephews "on condition that they rise at four o'clock in the summer and five o'clock in the winter;;'' another leaves his to friend lon condition that he al- ways wear black" another the fortu- nate man should always wear mourn ing ring. There was John Reed, who left his head "to be prepared so as to be used as the skull of Yorick in the play'of Hamlet by Shakspere,r having evidently felt the inconvenience of@not having an article of the kind in stock. There: was Dr. Wagner who left his limbs to different friends for dissecting purposes; there was Dr. Ellerby who left his heart to one man. his lungs to another, and his brain to another to be preserved from decomposition, and pleasantly added Eff either of the gen tlemen named failed to execute this, l will come and torment them until they shall comply" thus reminding us of the MT. Zimmerman who desired in 1s40 to be buried plainly and in ,a.de- cent manner. land if this be not done will come again-that is, if can!"
 One gentleman, cremationist before his time, wishes his body placed in one of the gas retorts of the Imperial Gas company. Another, desiring his body to be converted to useful purposes. sug- c rA~ nxr 'e.,, uolta and optical lenses "as being the forms in which he would like to appear for the benefit of mankind. Some prefer to be disposed of in the ordinary way but in extraordinary places. But what shall we say of the gentleman who wished his grave to be a battlefield and left enough money to provide twenty Irish men every year with knives and shille' lahs, armed with which they were tc meet over his grave and drink whis. key by the haK-pint: and then he grim. Fly continues. "knowing what I know o1 the Irish character, my conviction is that wHh these materials they will not fall to destroy each other" Some people are most considerate ir their thoughtfulness for the welfare oi fthose who have been dependent or them. Annuities have been left te animals of all classes: Count Miran' doia left an annuity to his fish: a.Mrs
 Harper left f1Oo to her black cat; a Mrs
 Hunter left f2o0 a year to her parrot 1 another widow left $50 year to hei canaries: Dr. Chistiani left 6O.000 florin,. to his dogs; with remainder at death te the University of Vienna; MT. Gar land left annuities to his monkey, his
 dog and his cat.
 l A good many testators leave jokt
 behind them, hoping apparently to en joy it in, a. future state. One of ths
 most absurd. examples of this elaborate
 fooling was that furnished by tht ltrousers man. who owned no less thar
 seventy-one pairs of those useful gar
 ments These he directed to be takeT
 as they were and be sold at public
 auction ns person being allowed tt
 buy more than one pair. The first pail
 fetched sbut.a triae. and great was tn.
 purchaser's joy at finding bank-note: Ito, the value of f200 in the pocket. Int lbiddinS ispsogressed by, leaps ant bounds .as every subsequent pair wal found oSUUntain similar amount; but