A DUTCHMAN'S WILL

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 180, 16 August 1872, Page 3

A DUTCHMAN'S WILL

Mr. Ivlaes, who was known among his acquaintances by the name of the" King of Smoker*, has just died near Rotterdam'. According to the Belgian papers he had amassed a large fortune in the linen trade, and had "erected near Rotterdam a mansion, one'poi'-' lion of which was devoted to Vav arrangement of a collection of pipes according to their nationality and chrononological order. A few days before his death he summoned Iris., lawyer, and made his will, in which he- directed that all the smokers of-the country should be invited to his funeral, that each should be presented with 101b of tobacco and two Dutch pipe's of the .newest fashion, on which should be engraved the nam-\ arms, and date of the decease .of the testator. He requested all his relatives, friends, and funeral guests, to be careful to'keep their pipes alight dining the funeral ceremonies, after which they should empty the ashes from the pipes on the coffin. The poor of the neighbourhood "who'attemhVl to his "last wishes were to recede arwaiiilly on the anniversary of his death, 101 b of tobacco and a small cask of good beer. He desired that his oak coffin should bo lined with the cedar of his old .ilavannah cigar boxes, and that a box o* Freneh eaporal and' a packet of old Dutch tobacco should be placed at the foot of his coffin. His favorite pipe was to be placed by his side, along with a. "box of matches,, a flint and stool, and some tinder, as he said there was no knowing what might happen. A ciexer calculator has made out Mr. Klaes had, during jus eighty y*»ars of life, smoked more than four tons of tobacco, and had drunk, about 500,000 quarts of beer.