A Curious Will.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 480, 14 June 1890, Page 3

A Curious Will.

A St. Petersburg correspondent writes : A late inhabitant of Warsaw, M. S died six years ago. He had confided his last will and testament to M. B- , his executor, set whose house the friends and relatives gathered together after the funeral to learn their fate ; but they only heard the inscription on the envelope read, which was to the eflect that the seal was to be broken on that day twelvemonth. This was sad news to many of them whose creditors were restive and threatening but possessing their souls, their interjections, and adjectives in silence, they went their several ways. In 1885 they were all punctually at the trysting place once more. Breathless was the silence. M. B broke that silence and the seal solemnly and tenderly, and found inside of the envelope a somewhat small enclosure sealed with an identical seal, and bearing an identical superscription : “ This seal is to be broken this day twelvemonth, not before.” Nor was the discovery of the year following of a nature to soothe the angry feelings of impatient relatives who met once more under M. B ’s hospitable roof. Briefly, year after year, the kith and kin of that rich man gathered together and ‘ quoted Scripture’ at the practical joker of the other world, heartily wishing him back again in this one for the nonce. The will proved to have seven seals, the'last of which was broken a few days ago, when it was found that the rich man’s property was divided into four equal parte, one of which was to be equally divided between his nieces and nephews, another was left to the children of a former wet nurse, a third was given to his friend and executor M. B , and the fourth was directed to be invested till the year 1910, when it is to be handed over to that one of the nephews who is blessed with the roost numerous • 'p,ogeny.