Show HUMOR FOUND IN LAST WILLS Due Nan Solemnly Left His Wife a Shilling to Buy Nuts Testamentary dispositions do not usually us-ually contain humorous matter nor Is the time of a mans preparations for quitting the world asullable occasion for Joking yet there arc always cropping up examples exam-ples of quaint humor and odd fuicics embodied em-bodied in wills Some people cnnnot bear the thought of leaving the world without one last sly dig or bold sarcasm Ipvolcd at relatives In illfavor Hero arc a few recent examples of post humorous witticisms A Bristol sailor left his wife 1 shilling wherewith to buy hazelnuLs as she had always preferred cracking nuts to mending mend-ing his stockings Stanislas Pollzmarz a Hungarian millionaire mil-lionaire bequeathed the larger part of his fortune to a notary named Lotz but stipulated stip-ulated that before claiming It he should engage himself at the Scala In Milan to perform In the operas Olello and La Sommmbula The testator explained that having sonic few years before met Lotz at an evening party where Lbtz hud sung fragments of tIle parts of Elvlno and Otello he had admired Urn beauty of his tenor voice and prfdiblcd that it only depended de-pended upon Tllmsolf to become tho favorite fa-vorite of the whole musical world If therefore ho concluded I am right ho will thank me if on tho other hand ho should fall he will have enough money to compensate him for any hissed ho mayS may-S hear A crabbed old German professor who died at Berlin a short time ago entertaining enter-taining a great dlsllko for his only surviving sur-viving relative left his property to him but on the absolute condition that tho legatee should always wear white linen clothes at all seasons of the year and should not supplement them In winter by extra undergarments A New York woman desired that all tho money she should die possessed of might bo employed In building a church In her native city but stipulated that her remains re-mains should ba mixed up In the mortar used for fixing the first stone There Is a slice of satlro in the every bequest I be-quest made In the humorous will of Dr Dunlon of Canada Ten such bequests as the following made up the document To my eldest sister Jane my fiacre field to compensate her for being married mar-ried to a man silo Is obliged to henpeck Philadelphia North American |