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Left Sums of | Money to Their Employers In Sar | casm or to Felieve Conditions of | Fellow Workers--Mean Husbands Who Have Put Hard Conditions on Their Wives. The home of strange wills is in the old country, although Canada. young as it is, there have been some be. quests made which have caused our thy inhabitants to wonder at the {vagaries of the old and even of the comparatively young. For instance take the case still recent in the minds of Moritrealers in which an erstwhile inhabitant of the city, at the time of his death desiring to-remember in on public manner, the city in which he claimed to have received his first start in lif, bequeathed to the Cor- poration of Montreal a considerable Sw: of money to be devoted to the relief of the poer. Here are a few English incidents which illustrate curious wills much better. Judging by the frequent examples of strange wills that every now and again come to light, there seems to be a strong tendency among a large class of testators to make their "last wills and testaments" as eccentric and peculiar as possible. Not so long ago, for instance, an eccentric Manchester gentleman djed who held strong views as to the un- deirability of marriage between cousins. Dying childless, he left a large fortune the interest of which was to be divided - equally between his"nephew and neice, the only chil- dren of two elder sisters. Attached to this legacy was a strange proviso that did the young people marry one another, the money should revert to a well-known Lancashire charity. The nephew lived in Blackburn, the neice in Bristol. They had never met, and, under ordinary circumstances, prob- ably never would have done so Curiosity led the nephew to spend a holiday in Bristol, and there fo visit his cousin, the girl whom he was su strangely forbidden to wed. It was a case of lpve at first sight. In a fortnight the cousins were engaged and before the year was out ther were wedding bellz, whic'i ~aused the trustees of the Lancashire charity to rejoice. . Some of the most amusing wills are those that are inspired by feelings of spite against a testator's kith or kin. The late Mr. Bydney Dickenson takes high rank among testator humorists of this type. He bequeathed $300,000 to his widow on these grimly ironi- cal conditions: "When I remember that the only happy times I have enjoyed have been when my wile sulked with me, ard when I remem- ber that as she was nearly always sulking my -life with: her has been fairly happy. I am tempted to forget th repulsion the sight qf her face in- spired me with, and leave her the sum of $300,000 on condition that she spends two liours a day at my grave- side for ten years in company with my sister, whery I know she loathes more than she does miyseli." It was a similar sense of gratitude which inspired Mr. Williath Darley, of Ash, in Hertfordshire, to leave his wife a shilling, "in admiration of th shill with which she was in the halt of robbing me of all small sums she conld lay her hands on." A mariner of Bristol, who had evi- dently been blessed with a spouse one too conspicuous for her domestic traits, instppeted his executors: 'Ta pay out of the first moneys collected to my beloved wile, if living, one shilling, that she may buy hazel nuts as 1 know che is better pleased with cracking them than she is with mend- ine the holes in her stockings." A testator's employer sometimes be- comes his legatee but when this is the case the bequest is usually made with some ulterior motive. A Welshman who left the handsome sum of one shilling to his master did so in order that the latter might purchase: a *bpok on manners," as ho sadly lack- ed the merest semblance of the same when dealing with his subordinates case not dissimilar to this was thas ok the lawyer who died of overwork, and who begueathed $100 to the soli- cjtors who Jad employed him, con. | ditionally on the sum being dBvoted | to the paying of overtime fees to such of the clerks as were compelled to wack after ordinary office hours. In both cases there was more a desire for better ~onditions of labor than a wish to benelit the employers. Some executors are called upon to carry out the most peculiar instrue. tions. Thus, a prosperous merchant; who lived and died in the Midlands, desired that his funeral should take place a week after his death, an hour before dawn, and with the strictes economy. At the same time he ex. pressed a wish that eighteen of his bosom f{riends, whom Le mentioned by nam, should be present at his wnterment, and that in return for their services each should be paid ten pounds out of his estate. No signs of movrping were to be sliowed, and every acquaintance of his who attend. ed the burial was to. be presented wits a pair of white kid gloves, and afterwards with a bottle of wine, that they might drink to the health of his soul. * a3 he expressed it. "on ita journey] to purification before the eternal resi." or It is queNiionable if any will ey survived a More adventurous ardes than the ome which was made by «| laborer who died in New Zealand in 1868. He left all he had--some $1500 in the Britich: Postoffice--to his wile, who lived at Rye, in Sussex. The will was mathe an elaborate affair, | engrossed ut prodigious length on | parchment. nad adorned with the seal | of the RBapreme Court of New Zealand in the hattom left hand corner. i The will after boing wreoked off the | Scilly Islands was picked up on the | beach by some Cornish fishermen and | sent on to Lo > i : ------ . . + Mustn't Bark. i Eastbourne. Fngland. has recently : approved a bylaw forbilldiog dogs to bark ow the ses front : 2 People q are actually what they seem | after they dis. if some wives THE VAGARIES OF THOSE ot | : 3 al ---- ARCIENT CUSTOMS, Quaint Usages and Superstitions Con. s nected With Stockings. Stockings figure ia superstitio touching especially those riage. Every one knows that there are actions both lucky and unlucky. Among the former, it is held that to put on any article of clothing wrongside out is decidedly a sigh of good luck; but it must be done accidentally, some old curious customs, vanish. This idea is very firmly held about stockings, probably because it is more easy to make such a mistake in putting than tn donning other gar. ments. Another superstition touching the use pf hose is connected with dream- ing.! This is a Scotch notion. 1f a person be about to sleep in a bed that he or she has never slept in before, the certainty of dreaming can be as. off the right foot under the head. Not only will the sleeper be sure to dream, but the dream will certainly come to ASS. Of the superstitions attached to marriage ceremonies, have heard of "throwing the siock- ing." This rite would hardly be re. garded now as consistent with modern notions, 6f-decorum, but it was highly popular ia days gone by. The cere- mony was performed at the conelu- sion of the wedding-day's festivities, by young men and girls seated at the bed-foot---the former have the bride's and the latter the groom's stockings-- whose object in throwing the hbse backwards over their heads was to hit, if possible, the head, and especia!- ly the nose, of onegor other of the newly-married onl A successful shot meant marriage at an early date for the thrower. A pleasant association connensted with stockings is familiar to all house- holds at Christmas time. Children still hang up their stockings at Christ- mas Eve in the simple faith that Sau. | ta Claus will fill them during that night of wonder; or, if 'he little paop.e are too sophisticated to believe connected with mar.) commoty | : and when the mis- | { take is found out no change must be nearly made, else the luck will immediately | round. most people | in | STOCK STOAIES. - + i Th: Same Anecdotes Do For Various Distinguished Personages. i When that distiriguished but eccen- | jie politician apd journalist, Mr. La. souchere, died, the pewspapers were flooded with stories about him A | { well-informed friend of his rather i spoiled their effect by declaring that most of them had been invented on | the Stock Exchange, or were second- | | aand. i As a matter"of fact, there are not | enough good stories to go | When a new figure become | rominent an economical press usual | y fathers 'on him anecdotes that have | | done good services years ago about | other people. i + There is really a sort of stage army | ! of stories, Each one gets a few years' | ; rest now and again, bui good anec- | dotes are so few that they are seldom | permitted to go into permanent re-| tirement. A few modernizing touches,' § the new father as well as they did the | old. The new father may smile, but so long ~s the supposed offspring of his brain is a credit to him he seldom | objects. i | Lately, for instance, a story has ap- | | peared here and there in print about | Paviova, the famous dancer. A mil lionaire's wife is said to have asked | her to dance at a party, Pavlova said, she would, and mentioned casually | timat her terms were $1,500. : "Isn't that rather high for a dane- 4 er?' . the lady asked bhaughtily.! "Couldn't you make it $1.200%" Pavlova shook her head. i "I could not possibly dance for less." { "Very well," was the resigned an- swer, "you shall have $1,600." At the | door she turmed. "You know, of course, that 1 shan't expect you to mix with my guests: | "Oh, in that case," answered the famous dancer, with her sweetest | smile, "1 shall be glad to fi | the extra $300. I was i would." But a couple of years ago « { the same story was b | dame Tetrazzini. Bef was laid in London; let vou afraid dollars the stories of Bt. Nick's peregrina- pounds, and the heroine was Mell tions, they still retain a firm faith in | the goodness of his domestic represen tatives, and duly hang up stockings as their predecessors have done for generations. And not chil- dren alone hung up their hase of old, Grqwn-ups, as well as the small folk, used to observe this custom most conscientiously. But in the old days the hanging up of the stocking took place not on Christmas Eve, but more appropriately on the eve of St. Nicho- las' Day, which falls on the fifth of Pecember. Another old "custom, which the su. perstitious sometimes remember witen they get°married, is to wear one c!d stocking and one new one following the thought, perhaps, that every bridle should wear "something old; some. thing new." To this day many brides adhere to this old habit, or supersti. tion, but they do not confine the ap- parel to stockings. --------------_---------- Peers' Confusing Titles. Reference is made in the new issue of "Debrett's Peerage" to the multise plication of the titles of peers with the same or a similar sounding de- signation. This year the title of Mr. Gair Ash. ton gives us Lord Ashton, Lord Axh- town, and Lord Ashton of Hyde, whi'e Lord Brassey's heir is now Lord Hythe, and we also have Lord Har- dinge and his brother--the Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge of Penshurst Then there are Lord Strafford and Lord Stafford, while there is another which "Debrett" does not mention-- Lord Stafford, the son of the Duke of Sutherland. Lotd Arundel (the Duke of Norfolk's Leir) has to be distin- guished from Lord Arundell of Ware dour, and Lord Clifford of Chudleigh from Lord de Clifford Confusion, too, sometimes arises be- tween Lord Curzon of Kedleston and Lord Curzon (Lord Howe's heir); in. deed a "correction" appeared in a paper a little while ago that there was no Lady Curzon, as Lord Curzon of Kedleston was a widower! . Indifferent handwriting sometimes leads to Lord Home app.aring as Lord Howe, and to the mixing up of Lord Manners and Lord Manvers, while great care has to he taken to distin. guish between Lord Hampton and Lord Hampden, Lord Lindsay and Lord Lindsey, Lord Longford and Lord Langford, and Lord Middlet n and Lord Midleton. Too Much For Censor. The battle against the dramatic cen- sorship déntinues in England with | Cad Denunciations of the tyranny exercised over the production of new plays by the Lord Chamberlain's de- partment are of daily occurrence. But it is open to doubt if the publication in book form of Zangwill's censored play, "The Next Religion," helped the cause of freedom, as the paseages the author was asked to delete are; in the opinion of a good many people, suf- ficiently offensive to warrant the Lord Chamberlain's action. The play is a scathing indictment of orthodox Christianity. The pas. sages to which official objection was taken are not very startling, however, to the impartial observer. In one place the Creator is spoken of as "The God who will send tuberculosis even through the Communion chalice," and in another place Westminster Abbey is celled "that shrine of superstition." On, the Jump. One of Lord @Gharles Beresford's tenants who conducted a small under. taker's establishment in Waterford was one day asked how the business was getting along. > "Grand, me lord!" he exélaimed I now have thie luckiest little hearse you ever saw. Glory be to gooduess, it was never a day idle since I got it." ~Tit-Bits, Sarcastic. Buggins--8ee here, porter, this mic- ror is so dusty I can't see myself in it. Porter (who has been tippped by Snuggins)-Strikes ioe Fou ought to mighty thankful, 'stid o' makin' » tus: bout. it. Tit its. ¥ A ---------------- The dn who ie his own worst enemy always atiempts to shift the blame ¥ 3 8 their | It was probably a Patti {in its time A few weeks ago a friend of L Alverstone's, the Lord Chief Justice remarked playfully that no human be ing could possibly he so wise as Lard Alverstone looked. For vears this tle joke will probably be tacked on ta Lord Alverstone. But just over a century ago the famous wit and states. man, Fox, said exactly the same thing | of a then judge, Lord Thurlow | Mr. Balfour is the pink of old-world politeness. Bo naturally he is father. | ed with the story that when a lady! at a part{ reproached him with hav. ing passed her without looking at her, | he replied courteously, "Madam, if {| had seen you I could not possibly | have passed you!" Good! But of at least six others wits the same story has been told-- | Tatleyrand, Col. Sanderson, Sir Her. bert Tree, Sir Henry Irving, Sydoey Smith, and Lewis Carroll. Did a distinguished eritic really say of Sir Herbeit Tree's rendering -f Hamlet that it was funny without be. ing vulgar? One sees occasional re- ferefices to the papers. But every new Hamlet runs story pos pliment hurled at him. The remark i8 exactly that which Kemble made, | of his bitter rival Keaun's playing of | the part. A House That Can Fly. A flying machine which can be rap idly converted into a nea' little two. story cottage has been invented by | Mr. H. G. Turner 'of Eldon Grove, Manchester, England The inventor asserts that this new departure in aviation will make the | flying man indepenedent of hotel ac- commodation, and enable him to guard his machine at night by sleep- ing, as it were, on the premises The aviator of the future, it is un- derstood," will sweep a hawk-like glance over the landscape for a healthy gravel gite, direct his volplane as alight with a south and then, by an' adjustment of the | | planes, convert the aeroplénes into a neat little homestead. In the morn ing he will peer out to see if the wea- ther holds good, and then make a quick change from hearth and home anes and petrol Turner describes hi as » tri-monoplane. and says that one or two minutes will suffice to convert the planes into a two-story structure, with a couple of cabins for sleeping and cooking. Oil stoves and bedding | can be carried on the machine. i Her Pious Wish. { Robert Burns' friend, Dr. Black- | lock," the blind poet, was a licentiate of the church of Beotland and used to preach occasionally. One Sunday he was sapplying a country pulpit. Certain deaf old vo. | men, as was the custom in those days, | bad squatted on the pulpit stairs to te | as near the preacher as possible. Like | the mass of the Scottish people, they abominated sermons that were read. One of them as soon as the discourse | wus begun said to her neighbor in | tone that was audible through the | whole church, "Is he readin'? i "Tuts, woman! No, he canna read. | He's blind." ¥ "Blind, is be, eh? That's raal fort vate. I wish they were a' blind." 80 to view, Navy Not Popular. Alarmed st the number of foreign. ers serving on ships sailing from the rt of London, and the a ea, in ritish seafarers, the London County | Council, the edusation suthority for | the metropolis, is seeking to find a | remedy. { Forty years ago one man in 28 born | in England was in the mercantile | marine. To-day the proj fon is not | more than half that, while the num. ber of Lascars and other Asiatics has | more than doubled. i A report has pow been presented to | the London County Council recom- | mending a training ship for the pro. | duction of officers, in which a two. | yesrs' course will be given to boys | from 15 years of age. : ! i i The earth was uo revolver belors fire | adres were invented, H a man is (Sonvinced againsl his will he mt. A wep 's Took afiects oman more PAGE THIRTEEN, ASTHMA CATARRH WHOOPING COUGH CROUP BRONCHITIS COUGHS COLDS NIGHT OR DAY 'Phone 201. 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