AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1763, 14 July 1888, Page 3

AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL.

An American gentleman, a certain doctor —remarkable, it is related, for his miserly propensities - recently died, leaving behind him a will which he declares to have made whilst sound of mind, but against the validity of which it is likely his heirs at law will protest. He wrote the will a short time before hits dgach, and after remarking that relatives who had before shunned him were liberal in their visits since he had been sick, and had given him several hints that they would like something to remember him by, the testator adds that he is willing to satisfy their desire. He then proceeds to do so by the following bequests;—To hja . belqyed' brother” He bequeaths his right hand and arm, to another brother the left corresponding members, to another his right loot, to a fourth bis left leg, to a nephew bis nose, to a nieoe an ear, to cousins

teeth, and to his “beloved sister-in-law ” his liver. He adds that it grieves him to part with himself in this way, but a “ gift, that costs the donor no sacrifice is worth nothing.” As to his fortune, after leaving a thousand dollars for the dissection of his body, he disposes of all the rest of his estate to public charities. Although the testator declares himself to be of sound mind at the time of dictating his last wishes, there is much in the extraordinary clauses of the will to justify the belief, which will certainly be that of his relatives, that he was mistaken in his opinion about his mental condition.