The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-07-19
SOME REMARKABLE REQUESTS.
Fund to Help Poor Girls and For
tunes Left for Other Odd Reasons.
(NeW York Tribune.)

~ ~ Chtii e'Stt
Of woman in India was evidently the
conviction of the late Naoroji Wadia,
q Wealthy ~Shipbullder OF Bombay, who
has just b~eQueathed & large fund to
assist poor girls into the estate of
matrimony. The SO, 600, 900 left to
scattered to beggars at the funeral
of the kindly disposed Naoroji Wadia
have not awakened half the interest
that his fund for p~OrtiOnleSS girls has
done in a land where a single woman
is looked upon with contempt and 4
widow with scorn.
A young man of Philadelphia was
possessed of morbid generosity when
he made O Will devising $40, 600 to
Miss Elizabeth Croskey, of the Quaker
City, and then committed suicide be
cause that young woman a spoken
scornfully of his attentions. The we'd
ding of the fair legatee followed a
few days after the funeral of the tea-
tatOr.
Thirty-fye years ago Sarah Marsh,
of Caldwell, n. J., beQueathed to her
nephew, stephen Marsh, a Bible. This
legatee has not explained his reason
for opening the book recently, but he
loudly expressed his, astonlshment al
the $4,S67.30 which he found laid be-
tween the leaves and his regret that
he had not read that Bible years ago.
Evid emily a good liver was a man
at Burnham, England, Who Willed a
fund sufficient to provide the inmate
of the poorhOuse Of the parish with
a Christmas dinner, accompanied with
a proper supply of ale, obacc ana
snuff forever
One Henry Green exhibited more
familiarity with the pardonable fol
bles of women when he provided in
his will hat on or before December
p every year four green W~alstcoats,
lined with green gallOOn lace, shouid
be delivered to four poor women who
were expected to wear hlS Emery on
Christmas day.
A certain New York man, some
time gone to his reWard, adopted a
curious way of discovering charltably
inclined persons L own stated he
in his will, *71 pairs of trousers, n
7 strictly enjOin my executors TO hOId
a public sale, at which these snail
be sold to the highest bidder and the
proceeds distributed to the poor OF the
city. I further desire that these gar
| ments shall in no way be examined
or meddled with, but be disposed or
as thew are found at he time of my
death: and no one purchased shail
huv more than one pair New York
has probably never known such an
other trousers sale, and certainly
never heard Of such a sequel, for each
purchaser discovered in a pocket OF
the trousers q thousand uolldI9 III
bank notes.
It is no uncommon thing to near
that a woman is worth her weight
in gold" but to be worth her weight
in falls to the lot OF a few.
Two Scotch lassies enjoyed this DIS
| tinction when they were weighed, IN
with the wishes expressed
in the father will, and received IN
hanknOtes the various sums or
1h51.OOO and 10 ST, 900. .
Possibly the widow of a prominent
American was as much to be enVied,
for the executors Of her husband
will were directed to pay her every
wear her own weight in gold. True
IN her feminine vanity. the widow ne
yer attempted to increase her weight
b,,t exercised thrift in another man
ner She added the sum OF her herl-
tage bv charging an admission fee to
those of the public who desired 70
witness the ceremony of weighing.
Human inq~uisitiveness is such ina
numbers were always ready TO pay lor
this privilege. =.
A very different sort of husband 1t
was who thus devised: 4 give unto
nv wife. Mary barley. for picking
nv pockets of sixty guineas. the sum
of one shilling" What punishment
for a woman whose husband was &C
tuallv able to testify to the amount