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Show , 'JMIPJIUISIIUL BEOOESTS. WILLS THAT HAVE AMUSED THE WOULD ELf OT THE TIEHIS. Men eeldouisHdorntowrite their wilis"nowada,ys In a merry mood. Their humor u-emsjo boexliaustej before Hi ey reach tlio tettanieiiUry stage. Most modern wills arc se i-rely bus7nes.-Tkennd tugge-stlve of propriety, but a spirit of ill naturcd waggery lurks lu them occasionally. oc-casionally. Tluac .read nt though the authors had t jvnt tlit Lt yeats of their Jl va la eujoyiuent of the UIsaiilntnietiU they had prepared for tzpectaiit relatives. There was the casa of the Lily solicitor, win tulmiitteU to b6 called nn "old pi" by hjs wife when alive, but re veuged Iiimst-lf in 1ft -n ill t.y leavfu- Kra fcithlug, wiUi dirprtioui that it was to bu (x&cd toller unjuid. We can Iiuagiue how thU grim ti-talurnl-mof t wilccmed death for the sale of" gvUlog L-veit Willi UU wife. ilr. ,V. U. Kuer, the dramatic company promoter, would liavu no woman reent at his funeral. It Ills fllfeturVKed Kim, he would be iremated: othcrwiH.-, he would be buried in theordinary way. Oneof thu rtransefct cases occurred in France. 31. Travers, i!e-Iariiig- the French to be '-a nilion of dastards nnd fook," Irft his whole fottiluc to the iiuor of Londun, add funiier or dered that liis laxly hliouid le launched into the mi a mile from, the Kugllili coast. An attempt was" made Ut deciaru thU unpatriotie 1 'reach man insane, but the cuuit of appeal u4ieM the will. t Ktvnclimeu alUas lmve been more iuxlihed tu frivolity than e in tHediypoaai of their estates. One bright mti'Ujru actually provided that a new cooking recfiuMtouM lie posted on hiti tombesili tiay. Theie a5"more fort, honevtr, In the frivolity of the Ktuch 1-inyir who left CIUJUO U a local iimlhoUM.-. Uc-cJariug Uc-cJariug that It wa tiniply nn act ul reUntl3n to his client".. - CItESIATIO.N CUlITgnS. CrtmatioH uteiwet are now becoming becom-ing common, but these appear ouly in the wills of acUancml audhtroug-mintted audhtroug-mintted jieople. Oilier pruvirjoui) are made by nervous jioople, moved chirliy by the duad of beinc; buried alive. 1 hit was the caw with Air. John JSlouiit Price, a lustke of the peace, of Ilingtn, win- wHl was recently ublujicd. jUr. Jijount declared iu his w ill that four dins .ifler dealli two Liifu surguus w em; lo be paid 5 eatli to Krfoim uh an ojierali')!! on his body a-wouki a-wouki preAunt the Miiullity of hi coming to.Iife iu hU coffin. The- VUaxiut do Curroo Lima, nhotlireateuHihls iiUrs with the loss of their property if they liuritd him In the family vault, further enjoined en-joined on them to have his bouy watchid until decora irfwitiou Ht iu. A similar provis'ou was madojv Mr. Dennis Crofion. an Itlh gvr"-tleiuan, gvr"-tleiuan, lat year. One Vienna mil lionaire 'was K anxious about hie corp&e tluit he would not let It be ltft in the dark. Xot only did he provide fur the vault to le lighted by electricity, but he also ordered thecellln to lie'sollluatiuud, Huce thus coming in a vre some fashion to tho aid of tecuritj. VKjVuKINO I K-jroSITJONS. I. rd Niulioniugti claihted by nil the (.rtuiilLnr Jifivilrjrt of faelna; twice buried. His remains are uow lliuli laid to reel iu Iiarue Island, olTtlic Yt!li Coast; but to UiedjpdliecrN honor it is said that theMrntetecunaaiy wase&jolned In his oiaequies, and the house-kecpir house-kecpir at ilouxean, iv.io watched liU every glauoe, leoeived a legacy ffo,00uaudau annuity of i'wWa year. The "waiting will" Is a constant source of irritation. The pruftors of Vientm university wen; delighted delight-ed to haru that Ci.uut JJanlegg had left their Institution ),), but u hen It came out that the money was to accumulate for a hundred years, by which time it wouM liaxe lucreaced lo SIS.OJO.OUO, tlie wit dtcided that Count llaniepg should have Leui lyll half boiled. The must Iiardheuded butineu men occasionally oc-casionally like tu koep their iieirs waiting. Mr. McCalinont. the stoek broker, iiroidud Hut his uejdicw, CTaj. McC'almont. mind, wait M:en j ears for Ids inheritance of three mlllincs. Perhaps the lejptee who has the Iiaitihanceof nallilng is the one mcnUouedXy a wicked -Finn, who left all his property to the devil. Finland H now probably tile-only country where the devil is a land owner. Some notice was taken at the time of the fact that the mum of the legatee iptarul iu capital letters throughout the will. The inference was that the tw-Ldor w ished to make a good imi nsrion to eevure indulgences when they nut. len tlie deHs name iu a will U better than none, which has lieen tlie cate with certain large propertie'. A feature has been tlie tendency of gentlemen W draw up wills in favor of the laditt, to whom they are engaged, ilr. HaMou, for instance, lift all his proiTty to Miss Annie Vizetelly. Inline manner a Miss Bessie MacDonald, a young lady of Glasgow, has become iiassessed of a handsome legacy and a hotel in "eiv Vork by one whu luiJ hoped to marry her. Zandun Standard. |