A certain individual, one of the Vanderbilts, left to a lady a bequest in these words: “I supplicate Miss B. to accept my whole fortune, too feeble an acknowledgment of the inexpressible sensations which the contemplation of her adorable nose has produced on me.”
Remembered the Police Station
Not long ago a will was contested in New York, because the testatrix had bequeathed a grand piano, several oil paintings, and five pieces of Japanese pottery to a police station. The protesting heir won the case, and there was a reversion of these art treasures to the natural heirs.
All smiled Sweetly
A certain will reads, “to that amiable young lady, Miss Blank, who smiles so sweetly in the street when we meet, I give Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars.” Now in the Blank family, there were six sisters; they all claimed to be “the amiable young lady,” but which of them got the legacy, history sayeth not.
A Salutation Directed
Pursuant to the will of Sir John Salter, who died in the year 1605, and who was a good benefactor to the Company, the beadles and servants of the Worshipful Company of Salters are to attend at St. Magnus’ Church, London Bridge, in the first week in October, and knock upon his gravestone, with sticks or staves, three times each person, and say, “How do you do, Brother Salter? I hope you are well.”
No Underclothes in Winter
A crabbed old German professor, who died at Berlin in 1900, entertaining a great dislike for his sole surviving relative, left his property to him, but on the absolute condition that he should always wear white linen clothes at all seasons of the year, and should not supplement them in winter by extra undergarments.
Had $100, gave away $700,000