The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03
SOME CURIOUS WILLS.
a WIDOW WHO WANTED DANCING
AT HER GRAVE.
The Great Love of French Baron
for His DOg-Dr. BoyIe of Ontario
Prepares an Eccentric Paper TO he
Read over His Colin.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
The recent death of an eccentric Phil
adelphian, who set forth in his viii that
he believed in Almighty God. but denied
the existence of a hereafter, recalls some
curious clauses in wills.
Prof. Ignaz Hoppe. who died a million
aire, at Basel. Germany. In 1881. left a
fund for the founding of psychologists
home or institute. where learned men
might devote themselves 10 the study OF
the human soul. Prof Hoppe was born in
Eichsfeld in 1911, and became a doctor
of medicine at Berlin in his 2ist year. He
made a special study of the connection be
tween psychology and physiology. and be
came a doctor of philosophy at Freiburg
In 1852 he took chair at Basel and re-
NAMED there until his death. He lived a
close life and his eccentricities and pecu-
liar dress made him an object Of curiosi-
~ to all tourists.
Under the provisions of his viii the
learned men who gather at his institute
must think perslstently on the problems
of psychology and must publish all the
discoveries they make. They must also
I'VE frugally and live religious. although
the VIII does not prescribe any one church
or belief The writing must be purged Of
an philosophical catch words, such as
"transcendental," etc.
The widow of a Vienna merchant will
ed that strauss orchestra should play
the Danube Waltz" at her grave. and
each member receive $40 for his services
The cemetery authorities objected. and
the matter was compromised by the or
cheStra playing the waltz over her coffin
at the close of the funeral services at
the house. The idea Of the waltz music
az Fer grave was probably suggested to
the Vienna woman by the clause in the
iAST Will and testament the fampfIg
Dutch painter, Egbert Van Hemskark,
winch read; Il bequeath my whole es-
tate to fund. from which every year a
pride snail receive her trousseau, but IN
der the unalterable condition that she, on
the day OF her wedding. together with
her husband and the wedding guests,
snail dance on my grave.
Auguste Genin. a French millionaire
gloss manufacturer, disinherited all his
relatives and left his treasures of art TO
cities ana his two palaces to the poor
To each OF the eighty-six French de-
partments he left an annual income Of
SUI, and for the lost provinces, Alsace
ana Lorraine, he stipulated that GER
tain sum. TO be know as their share
should be expended every year until the
provinces should become French again,
When the sum in question should be paid
to them.
The will Of Baron de Jouarre. who died
IN iaIls recently, provided for a fund
Tiger. He directed that a house be
bought for the dog in the suburbs of
farls ana that there Tiger should be al
lowed to choose his own table connan-
ions, who must be lodged under the same
IooI with him. housekeeper and
Waterman receive $500 annually for car
ING ing tor the villa Tiger and feeding and
cleaning the inmates. To secure the
best care Of his caniue favorite, the
Baron provided that the attendants in
S T!3l should cease upon the death of
Ilger, the hotel closed, SEQ expended for
a monument over the dogs grave and
the balance of the fund to go to the Paris
society Tor the Prevention of Cruelty
Two curious examples Of peculiar wills
on the continents are taken from the bio
graphles OF Baron Ulrich THAI, German
am Dassador IN Paris, and Luigo Coltusi
professor OF law in Padua University cen
turtles ago. The first having invested ali
ms money y annuities, directed that his
body, after death, be cut into small pieces
sailed down in a tub, and sent to Pome.
rama for burial This was done. Prof
Coltusl, In accordance with his will was
carried to his grave by twelve fanciflilIy
dance music. '''s
One Of the most peculiar of German
Wills was left by Privy Court CounciIior
Ludekus, in Dresden, whose LAWYER foun6
in the box with his testament $50 engrav-
ca mourning cards, bearing this an
I have the honor to hereby announce
to al friends and acquaintance nv death
on the date Of the postal mark.
,,ho.a -. John Ludekus."
This Is paralleled by the will Of a Ger.
man who died in New York three or for,
years ago, who directed that his body be
cremated and his ashes scattered 10 tine
Tour winds from the top of the statue of
hoerty on Bedloe's Island. His friends
performed this office as directed.
DIT James Boyle, who died al Kings.
Vliie; ontario. in the latter part OF 1891
lert his funeral sermon, which he directed
20 v 1e Tead over his coffin Dr. Boyle was
the old fashioned knickerbockeTs and
cooked hat up to his death which occur.
red RED at the age of 81. The sermon begins
You have come together as nelebbors
anu Irlehds 70 give my body a decent
ana an re respectable .S burial. which you owe
70 the friends of the departed That
pody, which lies in its narrow tenement
IS not mine any longer, and is no part
OF me have risen out of it in full hu.
man form, In the full stature and dirnen-
slons OF man, with all the organs, in
teInai ana external, that belong to hui
nanny am not shadow or specter
1 am not air or ether or mere breath
have all the senses ever had 1t was the
soul alone that saw and heard and
tasted and smelt and felt. and when
left the body l took them with me as
fundamental parts of my immortal exist.
ence. The body was only a thin GOV.
ering-a skin or film over the soul u
enable 1t to act upon or communicate
with the natural world, and when 1t MAJ
served It's purposes was cast off by the
soul which needed 1t and could use ii
H..
it will never come back to me-"
The sermon then at great length goes
on to explain the peculiar religious be
lief Of the writer, and was followed by
two appendices, the first entitled "ThC
Authenticity of the Gospels, or the III,
and Character of Jesus Christ" In the
second DR.. Boyle divides mankind into
three classes, THE Human, the Anima
and the Diabolical, or Devils" In the
first class he places persons "regenerate(
by the Holy Spirit" in the seconG those
still in the state of nature" and in the
third, animals in human form, but des-
titute of human qualities"
DR.. John Douglass, lawyer and Pres
| byterlan minister, who died in Pittsburg
Pa, in 1892, left a remarkable will In
which he says:
Il owe no man anything, and have nc
debts. / direct and positively order thai
the expenses at my funeral shall not ex.
coed SIS, and that my coffin shall be made
of plain boards without adornment OF
decoration of any kind. As / believe In
the Lord Jesus Christ. the blessed son OF
God, for salvation, and that men are
saved while alive. It win not be neces
sary to hold religious services over my
bOdU ="