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Show SATIRC in 'wills. Jiirr Document L.-ft Uetilnd Them bj l!ccnlric Ohl roliotri. One might suppose thai wlll-maklng was any thing bum merry occupation, nnd yet tho drollery of Iho wills that sonio eccentric old follows havo left behind them could hardly bo surpassed. $ tho Now York Ledger. Dean ft could not hato concocted a more hlltor Joko than that of tho tostator who. after reciting tho obligations ho was under to a particular friend, bo-onoathed bo-onoathed to him. at tho bottom of tbo first papo of his will ten thousand dollars, of course, thought tho delight-cd delight-cd legatee; but. on turning tho leaf, the bequon was dlscoored to bo ten thou-sand thou-sand thanks. What a wot blanket for "great expectations!" Just as odd was tho codicil of the ueath-strlcken humorist who loft to com tain of bis dear rolatlvos "as many acres of land as nhill bo found equal to! tho area Inclosed by tho track of tho contor of tho oscillation of tho cartL in a roolullon round tho sun, supposing tho meun d)stanoo of tho sun to bo twonty-ono thousand six hundred semi-dlamotors semi-dlamotors of tho earth from it." This was a century ago; nnd as tho problem prob-lem could not bo satisfactorily worked out. tho legatocs woro kept at a mean dutanc from tho proporty all tbeli lives. i VCry,.,noot rProach was conveyed In the will of an undo who bequeathed eleven silvor spoons to his nephew, with the remark! "If I have not loft him tho dozon ho knows tho reason;" tho young scapegrace having stolen the twelfth epoon some tlmo boforo. |