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Show v ' ' TOBACCO IN WILLS. - y . - , - Curious Direction I.oft by tho King at y" Gniolrers. v.-'."- '" ' 1 Klncs, the incrchant ni Itottcxdam, was willed the king1 of tho cmokars, . s from his devotion to the pintle weod. ! and ho luul a right regal funernJ. By ,1 the terms of his will, eveiy smoker who ' J - cliose to atteud it was presented with 1 ten pounds of tohncco nml two Dutch ii t plpc-S on whieli jvere engraved the j name, arms and date of the decease, of I the testator. All his guests were Jn- vitcd to he careful to keep their pipes I alight during the funeral ceremonies, "and to empty their ashes into his grave. Ills oak coillu was lined with the cedar of ;his old Ilavana cigar,, boxes, and a packet of. old Dutch tobacco was placed j at the foot of his coflin. Ills favorite' pipe was laid by his side, along with j' a box of mutdics, as well as flint and' steel and some tinder, aa ho had expressed ex-pressed an opinion that "there was no knowing what might happen.' Some anti-tobacconists of the period seem to have wickedly remarked that these pre-.cautions pre-.cautions about procuringa light would lie found superfluous. )t The courts recently set aside a clause in tho will of an anti-tobacco leaguer in Ireland. This gentlcmaa had a prejudice against smoking, perhaps because be-cause it made him siek, and inserted this paragraph in lite last testament: "I have told my sons, John, Richard and Samuel, that If they indulge in the habHt they would forfeit 500 each, to be divided among their sisters, and should they at any time begin this liabit, tlielr sisters may sue them each for 500." |