erin A CASTLE ON THE RHINR. ax nuns L’s-smiles. On a mountain, near the summit, Stands a castle old and hoary; Many men have fallen round it In the battle grim and gory. ’leath it runs the rippling river, Flowing. rushing o‘er the lea; Rumbllnu, tumbling, roaring ever, Dashing onward Io the sea. Ancient castle, tell thy story! Tell me truly. tell me all! 'Ihll me of thine ancient glory, Ere thy battered ruins all. What a p e thou hast in history! What a te on Nature's brow! Wilt thou always be a mystery Grim and dark as thou art now? Helen Home; 03. THE ADVENTURES OP A POOR GIRL in NEW YORK. Bx ALBERT w. AIKEN. Airmen or "LA mom, rnr nmcrivt gum,” “rail: nousu: nrrlllcrrvn,” :10. CHAPTER XXXVII. , A (3an AT LAST. Anna-cereal - l t»: nastien‘nre in r - d tnthe fi ding o the garments and thank- Fnu the (inner and patrolman for their kindness. Debby lawyer proceeded down—town I In. . ,“ There does not seem to be the least claw,” the anxious lover remarked, discouraged at the ill-enema of his “Itvdoeanot appear to the probable, though, that'the girl has destroyed herself,” the lawyer declared. “ Oh, no: I do not entertain that thought; she was of a bri t, joyous nature, and I am sure it would ta e a crushing weight of sorrow to bring her to the point of wantonly taking her own life.” “Wouldn’t it be a good idea to employ a the detective to 100k into the matter?" “ erh‘a it would; there is this Mottle- bud. but haven’t a Very good opinion of him.” ” Oh, I don’t take any stock in Mottlebud at all. As far as I can see he has blundered from beginning to end in this matter. Brag and bluster are his best ‘ bolts.’ I haven’t the leasl doubt that he is responsible for the girl quitting her home down in the country. He went >0wn there and bragged of what he was going to do, and instead of securing the girl, as was his in- tention, he so frightened her that she thought some awful danger menaced her and so cut her lucky at once ” “Speaking of Muttlebud reminds me of the Englishman, GarrOwcroft, his employer, who, for some purpose of his own, is s) anxious to find Helen. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to make known to him what we have discoverec in regard to these clothes. and the supposition abroad that she has committed suicide-l” “ An excellent ideal He’s a shrewd man of the world and in a multitude of counselors there is safety.” " We will go to him immediately.” As it happened the Englishman was at home when the two arrived and so they were enabled to lay the matter before him. He too scouted the idea of suicide. “ The poor child has been foully dealt with, you may rest assurei of that l” be instantly ex claimed. “ In escapinfifrom the house of that miserable old wretch, umblebig. she fell into the clutches of some other scoundrel or menu- drels, and for some reason—Which I confess i can’t fathom—it was deslrei that it should be believed the rl had committed suicide. There is some eep plot in this matter. gen- tlemen, you can be certain of that, and the quicker it is investigated the better.” " That is the conclusion of both Mr. Purchase and myself, and we thought of putting detec tives on the track at once. ’ Garrowcroft shook his head. " Really, gentlemen, you must excuse me if I say toyou that I have little confiience in d»- trctiees. I am satisfied that this Muttle— bud, whom i employed, has blundered—it not from the ver beginning-4st cri'l‘cal moments, and by sodo ng has upseteverything. Mutton- head wou'd be the appropriate name for him. in my 0 inlon. Supp lse, gentlemen, instead of employ ng detectives that we try our hands at a little detective work. L-t us go up to the spot where the clothes were discovered; exam- ine the locality and question anybody whom we ma chancetofild in the neighborhood. If I no erstand you rightly you didn’t investigale the matter very closely.” Both admitted that they had not. “ It is clear to me the clmhes were put near the river to give the impression that the girl had jumped into the water; I am satisfied she did not put them there herself, and so some- body else must have done so, and as it is plain the garments could only be obtained from the girl, the inference is that, if we find the arty who left the clothes we shall obtain a ' ect clew to the lost Helen.” Blth Deuby and his lawyer assented to this view of the case and the result was that an hour later found the three on the spot where the clothes had been found. ' But, after a careful examination of the lo- cality all were obliged to confess themselves be r . " be next thing is to question the inhabit- ants,” Garrowcroft remarked. There was a small shanty about an eighth of a mile down the river which the three had no- ticed as they came up, and at this humble abode the Englishman suggested the investiga- tion had better begin. As they approached the house they noticed a sharp looking youngster about ten or twelVe years old fishing from a rock a little ways from the shanty. “ l‘ll commence operations with him,”Gar- r0wcroft said, as they approached. The Englishman got at the subject in a man- terly manner. He had resolved to interrogate the boy upon two subjects: first had he noticed any strangers. male or female, in the neighbor- hood lalely: ascend. were there any folks of bad re utation in the vicinity. be opening move was to exhibit to the won- dering eyes of the boy a bright new dollar. and assure him that the coin should be his if he would answer truthfully the questions put to m. The lad agreed readil y enough, for silver dol- lars were uncommon scarce in that neighbor- hood In answer to the first question the boy said he had not seen any strangers about for two or three days, and as he explained that he_spent about all his time from six in the morning to nine or ten in the evenin outdoors. it was more than probable he won d have noticed any strangers if there had been any around. To the second, the people in the neighborhood Were all pretty good as ar as he knew. And then a sudden thought occurred to the lad: “P’r’aps you mean the mad~house up on the hill?” No, Garrowcroft said that he didn’t take any interest in mad-houses. “ ’Tain’t a Very big one—a private one where the people hav‘ to pay big to git in—a. sanny- something, the professor calls it,” the boy ex lained. “ He‘s a mean old cuss, that Muller! came near pegging ll stone at him yesterday night When 1 need him going up the track with a bundle.” ‘ The three men were fairly trembling with excitement at this unexpected disclosure, and it was a moment before Garrowcroft could go on with his questioning. “ Mr. Muller had a bundle and went up the track 3" “ He did, the mean old rip: house-hipped me onc‘t ’cos I was in his orchard, and he said I was a booking his apples.” “ Whom do you ~uppose he was going?” “i dunno: out if i had a thouult he was a- coming back so soon, I w0uld haw hid in the bushfs somewhere and fired a rock at him, any- h0w. ’ ‘ Did he have the bundle when he came back i” The boy scratched his head a moment. f“ [guess he didn’t; I oon’t remember seeing o it.’ “ It doesn't matter anyway: here’s your dol» Iar, sollny, for your trouble ” Away tue three Went. There wasn’t much doubt in their minds, now. as to where the girl was confined, though to object of such an out- rage was Inexplicable. INow Purcnase‘s legal knewledge came in p ny. “ We want to go to the nearest magistrate and swear out a warrant; then, with an officer, proc- ed to search the hon-e.” Not a minute was wasted. The magistrate was found, the warrant issued, an ofiicu' pro- cured. and then Professor Muller’s Sanitariqu was attacked. New-r has there a more astonished man than the proprietor of t. e private mad house when his premises were invaded by this “ army." Firs he attempted to bluster, but when he found that the visitors w re armed with the ecessa y legal authol ity, and were determined in execute their purpose, he began to cringe. Je had been away a great deal. lately; one oI iis patients had escaped in his absence, and Lie lien bad recent-Iran her, so they ssid,hut bl «l otenen the-patient since hie ruturn. m 6 there might have been some mistake made. And in this way he tried to avert his own im- plication in the outrage. He conducted the visitors to the cell-like apartment where Mrs. Blank and the lost Helen were confined. With a scream of joy Helen rushed toward Deuby the moment she saw him in the door way. And her exclamation was echoed by the poor insane patient, Mrs. Blank, when she looked upon Garmwcroft. “ Mathew, Mathew !” she cried. “On, heaVens, it is my sister!” the English- man exclaimrd, rushing to her. With a wild scream she threw up her arms and fainted dead away,Garrowcroft catching he; as she fell, and placing her upon one of the he s. “ You have done it now,” the professor re- marked, cynically. “ You have eilher killed or cured her. Hrr madness came fl om a severe grief-shock, and 00w if she don’t die from the effects of too much happiness, it is more than probable she will actually recover her reason.” “ And I have mourned her for dead all these years,” the Eng ish-nan moaned. ' “ Poor lady ! and I love her so much, althou h we have only just become acquainted, and s 9 says that [am nearer and dearerto her than any one she has ever known,” Helen remarked, her face full of sympathy. “And no wonder, my dear child, for this wo- man is your own mother, as I am your own one el” "My motherl" and throwing herself upon her knees beside the bed. she rested her head upon the bosom of the senseless woman and burst into a flood of tears. “Yes, your mother, who was stolen from me by a villain when she was but a mere child; he married her, then, after you were born, de- serted her and fled to this country. She, with her child, folIOWed him, and all traces of her disa peared. I was away in India, battling hard’ for a fortune, and knew nothing but the more facts of the case. Not until I returned to England with a fortune, only a yqlr ago. did I learn all the particulars. Then I came to America, but all I could learn was that my sis- Ier had died shortl after coming to th‘s coun- try, and that her c ild had been intrusted to a man living somewhere near Long Branch, whose exact name I could not discover. 1 came for Vengeance; too late, though—the villain who did all this mischief was dead. But a bit- ter reckoning hereafter awaits Gloster Plan- tagenetl” A cry of astonishment came from Denby’s li . lEGloster Plantagenet was my step-father!” “ The soouodrell and he couldn’t legally marry anybody as long as this poor woman lived, for she was his lawful wife. I un iers and it all now: when my poor sister came here and hunted down the man who had so cruelly de— serted her, he, probably, threw off the mask and declared she had no claim on him, and that she could go and starve for all he cared. So the telrible shock produced insanity.” “ Exactly,” the professor hastened to ex- claim. “ That is the way she tells it, with the slight exception that. in her madness, it is the French prince, the Duke of Orleans, whom she had married. I can be of assistance to you, gentlemen, if you care to accept my aid. if you will agree to overlook this little mistake that has been made, I will furnish you with the name of the lawyer who arranged for this lady’s keeping here. Of course I never knew who she was, or anything about her. In an in- stitution of this kind, troublesome questions are never asked of patrons. I knew that there had been a sum of money set apart, the interest of which was suflicient to support her, so that she was provided for as long as she live-i. I gather from what you have said, that there may be some properr. involved in this matter, and my evidence, an the proof of which I can put you on the track, will help to make the legal chain complete.” Alter a consultation it was agreed to accept the offer, although, as Garrowcroft remarked, “ the rascal ought to be punished !” “ I am punished where I feel it most, entle- men—in my pocket," Muller replied. “ y this little accident I lose two good paying boarders ——seventy-five dollars a week out, and if I don’t get some others in their place right soon I shall have to shut u shop.’I Meanwhile t e unfortunate victim of man’s cruelty was slowly reviving, and as her strength came back so that she could alt up, all noticed that the peculiar wild expression which her face had worn was no longer there. “She’s all right, gentlemen, it is a marVPIous recovery,” Muller remarked. “All the medio clue in the wor d applied for a hundred years couldn’t have done it. I'm no slouch of an ex- pert. gentlemen, and I know what I'm talking about if I do run a rather peculiar establish- ment.” And it was the truth, the shock and rescue had restored the unhappy woman to all her senses. At one turn of fortune’s wheel Helen recov- ered her freedom, the man she adored and the loving mother whom she had so long mourned as dead. CHAPTER XXXVIII. A moon‘s DISCOMFITURI. Tm: rest of our tale is now soon told. The unexpected appearance of the first wife and eldest daughter of Gloster Plantagenet would have upset all of the crafty Richard’s plans, even if a bmnbshell had not exploded under him, hurled from an entirely different di- rection. He had made all preparations to roduce the true will which, in some moment w Ien Justice got the better of his craft, Gloster Plantagenet bad executed, making tardy reparation to his abandoned daughter; but it was not the young rogue's game to make the will public until he had gone to England and arranged matters there, so that he could, by means of false wit- nnsses and false oaths. establish the fact that Viola, instead of being Gloster’s niece. was in truth his daughter. He felt sure that. by the liberal use of money. he could make out a case so strong that he could make Deuby glad to compromise by giving up One half of the prop- erty, even if he could not clutch the whole. But, just as he was getting everything nicely in trim an event occurred that changed all his plans. As the reader will probably remember, the superintendent of police surmised that the cilai-hluan, who had been so prompt to accuse Li\i gstoue of the murder of his mother, knew a great deal more about that tragedy than he was willing to acknowledge, and so the detec- tive after his release from the House of Deten tion kept a constant watch upon him, day and night. So complete “as this surveillance that the man power slipped foot out of his house without being dogged by a spy. Suspecting that he was shadowed—for the guilty mind doth fear each bush an ofi ~er—the man at last dist-Overed the truth. Then he be— came alarmed and sought an interview with Richard, lnformed him that the police were on his truck and that he must have money by means of which to fly. Tile plotter, although at first rather inclined to laugh at these fear~, fillal'y came to the con clu~loo that it w~luld be a good Idea to get rid of the Weak-kneed scouudrel, for by this time he I egau to realize that the Irap he had laid to catch Deuby was not going to work. He had hop—d that the circumstantial evidence was strong enoug- to convict Livilgstone of the murder of his mothrr—for it was he who hac concocted the char e—but now he was con :iuced nothing cool he expected from that ei- ort. So, on the whole, he thought it would be a goo-I idea to et the coacl man awav, for he -0w distruste the coward and had an idea that should he be r-rmted the man would u-y to tin-ow qll the blame on his employer. G V’l g him a hundred dollars—at which the other grumbled. for he thought he ought to have five-he advised him to 'get out’ with- 0ut delay. The fell0w declared that he would l~ave by the first train; but in regard to this be reckoned “without his host,” for the de- hec'ives, keen on the watch, nabbed him at the e t. he superintendent, resolving to play a bold game, had given orders to arrest the coachman if he attempted flight. His idea was to frighten acollfessiououtof the man, if he really knew an thing about the murder. his artifice succeeded. The moment the fel- low found hlmself in the hands of the officers, and it was intimated to him that he was sus pected of being the murderer of Mrs. Plantage- net, he became terribly alarmed and agreed to t~ll all he knew about the aflair. It wasn‘t much but it served to throw suspicion strongly upon Richard Plantagenet. Then the chief resolved upon a master-stroke, and that was to arrest Richard on the charge of murder, hoping by the movement to frighten him into a confession. But, the plotter was too much of a fox to be caught napping. The coachman haying told him by what train he intended going, the young man had been on hand in the back- ground, disguised, to see him ofif. When the arrest was made, in the fright of the moment, the coachman had declared his own innocence, but acknowledged that he knew who did the deed. Richard w ited to hear no more. He realized well enough that the time to act promptly had come, and if he was not anxious- to see the inside of a cell tue quicker he got cut of the way the better, for be u as the guilty man. although he had not the slightest inten- ti:n of injuring Mrs. Plantagenet when he had mace tha mid night raid upon the safe. In anticipation of just such an event as this he had made all preparations for flight. He had fared Well since coining to America, aid flattered himself he had such a start that in some infant city of the far West he mightbuild up a colo~sal fortune. “ After all, I was a fool not to take the hun- dred thousand,” he said, after he had got past St Louis and felt free from danger. But in the wild West Richard Plantagenet was not fated to prosper. The weight of the crime which he had committed seem-d to drag him dowu. All his speculations Were unlucky, and finally reduced to payerty, he caught the fever so fatal to non acclimated strangers in some parts of the mountain regions. and died a miserable death without even a friendly hand to close his e es; and thus it happened that the true will of loster Plantagenet had never come to light, for Richard had carried it away with him in his flight. By means of the information gained from the old scamp, Muller, the lawyers were found through whom old Plantagenet had arranged in regar to his wife and daughter, but with the cunning natural to the man, he had not let the firm know his real name. lt was very easy. though, to identify “ Mr. Thomas Blank,” as he had called himself, and the great speculator. As the professor had predicted, the long-af- flicted woman completely recovered her reason, and bid fair to enjoy many happy days in the society of her new-found daughter. The charge against Deuby was of course ut- terly exploded by the confession of the coach- man, who swore he had been bribed by the fa- gitive, Richard, to make the charge. and as a punishment for his perjury he was sent up the rim-r to do the State some service. Justice, too, at last swooped down on Bumble- big. It was suddenly discovered that he had been dipping his arms in the public treasury up to the elbows and when his “crookedness ’ came out. and he only escaped punishment by a hasty fight to parts unknown, leaving all his ill-gotten gains behind him, again the newspa- pers display ed the stirring head-line: “ Another eminent citizen gone wrougl" The Canary family, cunning and skillful as they were, “tried it on ” once too often and were “scooped in.” then sent to Sing Sing to meditate upon the folly of all evil ways. All for Viola, the girl without a heart, al- thou h well provided for by Deuby, she hun- gered after more money, married an Italian Count, who turned out to be a chorussinger in the opera, 9. mean rascal, who made sad havoc with his wife’s money until Livingstone inter- fered and procured a legal separation for the unfortunate girl; and IIOW, as the poorly-paid music-teacher in a fashimable boarding-school, she sighs for “ what might have been.” With the happy marriage of our country girl to the man of her choice our story ends. The millions of Gloster Plantagenet, although rhaps ruthlessly acquired, are used for hang ht ut gond, and peace and happiness dwell in the mansion over which presides peerless Helen Home. 7 THE END. MEERSCHAUM MINES. THE most extensive depOts of meerschaum are in Asia Minor and me about twenty-four miles south-east of the city of Eskisch-r. lor- merly Do*ylea, the inhabitants of Which, num- beriug about twenty thouslmd Armenians and Turks, are princi ally emn'oyed in collecting or dealing in this in ueral. It is obtained down in the earth. shafts or pits being sunk to a depth of twenty-seven or thirty-three feet. Forty to fifty miu- rs work in one mine and form a com~ any, dividing the profins among themselv s. The stones are generally irle ular in shape, and vary greatly in 8123, being rom the size of a nut to a square foot or more. The larg-st ieces are the most in demand, and the dearest. The mineral. when freshly dug. is of a yellow- ish white color and covered about a finger thick with red, greasy earth. so soft that it can be cut with a knife. The treatment which the meerschaum must be subject to before it is fit for export is very expensnve and tedious. The pieces must first be freed from the adhering earth and dried for five or six days in warm rooms. The mineral is then cleaned a second time and zolished with wax. Atter this it is sorted into different grades, of which there are ten. and carefully packed with cotton into boxes for exllorl. The stones lose two-thirds of their Weight and volume in the operation of cleaning and drying. The price depends up-ln the demand. The largest quantity is sent to Vienna and Germany. Curious Wills. BY G. BANCROFT GRIFFITH. A NEPHEW of Thanue-lls Stevens, of Pennsyl- vania, lost a legacy of $100,000. His uncle left it Io him un.’ei- tue care of executors. with a provision that he was to forfeit it unless he gaVe up intoxicating drinks. The foolish young man would not lefurm lils hal its, and lost his lortune. Many curious wills might be cited. A German, lroubled bow to dispose of his mone , bequeathed it to a man Whom be de‘ teste , upon the Condition that he always wore thin, shite linen clothes, without any under- clothirg. - A.Mr. Sargent. of Loicester, England, sought to improve the habits of his bed-loving ne~ phfiws by putting the following clause in his WI : " As my nephews are fond of indulging themselves in bed in the morning, and as I wish them to prove lo the satisfaction 01 my execut0ls that they hays 20!. cm of bed in the morning, and either employed themselves in business or in taki exercise in the open air from five to eight o’cl0c every morning, from the2d of April to the 10th of Octcber—behig rhree hours each day—and from s x lo eight o’clock every morning from the 10th of October to the 2d of April, being two homs eyery morning. “This is to be done for seven years, to the satis— faction of my executors. “'l 0 II‘." excuse them in case of "m c\: 'w' We test mu~t made up when they are w 11; and if they will not do this, they shall not receiv any share of my property.” A rich saddler, whose daughter was after- ward married to Dunk, the celebr ted Earl of Halifax, ordered in his will that she should lose her fortune if she did not marry a saddler. The young Earl of Halifax, in order to win the bride, served an apprenticeship of seven years to a saddler, and afterward bound himself to the rich saddler’s daughter for life. Any young lady is worth the winning who can inspile her suitor to learn something use- A Parisian merchant left about six thousand dollars a year to a lady of Rouen for having, twenty ears before, refused to marry him, “ throng which,” states the will, “I was en- abled to live independently and happily as a bachelor.” Occasionally some “ machine ” poet makes his will in rh me. a curiou~ specimen of which is that of r. William Racket, an En- glishman of the last century: “ I ve and bequeath, en I’m laid underneath, To my two loving sisters most dear, The whole of my store, Were it twice as much more, Which God‘s goodness has granted me here. And Will none may prevent This my Will and intent, Or occasion the least of law-racket, With a solemn appeal, I confirm, sign and seal This the true act and deed of “ WILL RAcm. “ Elizabeth and Ann, In the name of God. Amen." A MassachUSetts gentleman dying left a will which no lawyer can break. It read as fol- lows: “ I leave my estate to be divided among my heirs according to the laws of Massachusetts, and ap point my wife executrix.” Here is a similar will made in rhyme by an English gentleman: “ As to to my worldly goods, now or to be in store, 1 give to my beloved wife and hers forevermore. I ive all free] : I no limit fix; This is my in” , and she‘s executrix!" The English are notei for singular bequests, which have, in many instances, proved an in— jug to the recipients. Nearly a century ago, a r. Jarvis bequeathed by his will $500,000 to the poor of three parishes. The result has been to attract the indolent and vicious to these par~ ishes. very much to their detriment. A certain tobaccoui-t left a field, the rent of which was to furnish six poor women with snufi’. The value of the field has increased enormously beyond the capacity of noses. Another gentleman willed the parish of St. Edmund 83.750 to dis- tribute annually to the poor. but it has no poor. One legacy provides perpetually for the ex- pense of burning heretics. Truth stranger than fiction could be told of the life of the late Mrs. 0., one of the most ec— centric characters of the South-west. Fl om the administration of Washington to that of Van Bureu she was an habitat? of the Capitol. She held durin her life all of her husband’s great wealth. he heir—his nephew—who was to receive the property at‘ her death, when he came of egg refused to learn any profession or trade, as rs. C was then fifty and in infirm health. She would not give him a penny, al- though she was childless, living alone on her lautation, surrounded only by slaves. “ You tter go to work, George,” she would say to him, “ I’ll walk over your grave yet.” He waited twenty, thirty, forty years. He was a pauper, but the dead woman‘s shoes were not yet ready for him. She made preparations apparently to live forever. Every year she bought the costliest dresses and laces, made in the prevailing fashion, and stored them away in her great solitary chambers. The heir, a feeble old man, died at last in the almshouse. She lived on. In her hundred and first year she was pre- vailed upon to make her will. After disposing of various properties, the lawyer reminded her of the Bogg farms, which she had inherited from her father. “ They are mine," she said, quietly, and con- tinued devising her husband’s estates. “ That is all,” she said at length, holding out her hand for the pen. “But you have not left the Bogg farms to anybody.” “ Sir, they are mine forever 1” cried the dying woman. In the town of Dudley, not far from Worces‘ ter, Mass. a tribe once lived, familiarly known as the “Dudley Indians,” some of whom still survive in and around the town. and their blood flows in the veins of white families of consider- able note in that Vicinity. On looking over the pers of a distinguished man in a town adjoin- ug a document was found, interesting. fro 'ts antiquity, and particularly from its connec on with this almost extinct race. It is a will drawn up by a Dudley Indian one hundred and twenty- four years ago; acurious relic of the literar and religious status of these children of the crest at that time. We copy it precisely as it was written: “ DUDLEY, Sept. 19th. 1757. “ The last will and testament of abigal uiltocus of Dudley. I being, by the providence of 0d, layed upon a s ck bead and in a languishing condition and thlnkiug myself Drawing noigh the gate of the gI ave, and being of Sound Mind I am clined and Dis- sed to give away my temporal Estate that god in is provide nce has been pleased to bless me with :— aud in the first place I commit my body to the Dust and my soul to god that gave it:— and now in the fol- . lowing order viz.—first I appelnt my Cousin J onathun i Pagpn executor to fulfill this my. will and order him to ecently bury)my body after my Death—and to i pay all mv Just ebts. 2d] . I give unto my Cousin onathnn Pagon all my Rea Estate—hens and barn ' and improved land. 8dly, I order so much of the l living stock to be sold as to pay all my Debts. 4thly, I give the rest of my live S ock to my tow Cousins I hannah quittocus and Patience pagon to be Eqully l Divided between them. 5thly, I give unto my cousin hannah quittocus my caloco gown also my grate cheast and Iron pots and two woollln blankets also my lillted potecot and best pare of Stays a long, blac Silk hood and a whit apron—also my blue Camblit Riding hood and frying lan. “6thly, I give unto my Cosin atlence pagon my i Silk gown also my head and headstead Cord and Coverlld and tow blankets and Iron little: and ; my old are of Stays and my old black Silk hood _ and col on handkerchief—and a apron and Iron i tongs; 7tllly, I give unto my Cosin Patience Tom I Pagons wife one of my grounds. ‘ 8thly I give unto my Cosin Martha Pagon Jo- , scphs wife one of my grounds; 9thly, i give unto my ' Cosin nanna pcgon thomas Kagon’s widow one of my grounds. This is my min and will to be Dun. Hereunto I set my hand ABIGAL QUITTOCUS. “in presence of us, “ WILLIAM CARTER, “ ELKANAH DAY, “JONATHAN NEWELL." A farmer at Hertfordhire, England, inserted in his will his written wish that, "As he was about to take a thirty year.’ nap. his Coffin might be suspended from a beam iii his barn, and by no uleans nailed dowu.” He. b0weVer, permit- ted it to be locked, provided a hole we. r made in the Blue through which the key might be pushed, so that he might let him~elf out when he awo :0. Less solicitous for the preservation of what Sir Thomas Browne calls “ this lump (I mor- tality,” was Sir Charles Hastings, who directed that his body might not be outlined, but swathed in any coarse stufi’ that would hold it togctuer, and then hurled in aspot designated by him: that the ground should then be planted with acorns, .~o Ihat he might render a last sci vice to ills country by contributing to nourish some gO-‘ld English oaks .Dr. Messeu er Mouncey, who was once phy- lelau to Che Si-R Ho-pital College, bequeathed his corpse for diswction, and added that when the sol geons had completed their task it was to , be put into a deal box, in which holes had been made, and tniown into the Thames. Surpass. 10% al-, however, in whimsicnlity, is the Will of a money she should die posse-sod of should be employed in building a church in her native city, but stipulated that her remains should be mixed up in the mortar used for fixing the first 5 he. ' I T0 ADVERTISERS. 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