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ROMANTIC WILLS.
Oddities of Probate Courts.
The Austrian actress who disputed with' out succom her grandfather's typewritton, will (as describest. in. The Standard) would equally have" filed had her action been brought in English or American coarte in.
atrad of in Vienna. Only the other day indeed, a typewritten will gured in a case in the English Probate Court.
The typewriter is quite commonly used in the reconding of wills. Only in fiction COAL DEPARTMENT, | does one mad if wills tattood on the back of a woman-no in Rider Haggard's novel, VOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA. | “ Ma Mlecna's Will," or the secret of a HIMA, OCHI, HUTABI, YO- treasure pricked indelibly on the skin SHINOTANI, - HOJO, KANADA, ƒ of a living man, as imagined by Jules NAMAZUTÁ, SAYO, SHINNEW | Verne in "Captain Antiller's Millions.“ and KAMIYAMADA Dollaries, Fat quite as romantic is the story of the British soldier who, dying after the battle of El Tub in the Sudan campaign of AGENTS for HISKIAKE & SAKÍTU 1884, scrawled with lead ballet in the
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inside of his belaret the Inomic instruction: All to my wife" This incident was more than paralleled in one of the Afghan wais. A soldier on ecoat daty was killed (and remained undiscovered for many weeks He was thm found lying behind a rock, on the surface of which he hid written in his lifa'a blood: "I want mother to have all." The War Office, it is interesting to learn, saw that these wills were duly axcouted.
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CURIOSITIES. IS WILLS.
HOW HE HAFTLED DEATH.
· DEL, VILLIAMS" PRIX PILLA GURE Asovurm HALLE SUETTEZA OS Rhenmatiam And Solation.
Scientis's any that Rheumation followe too rapid thinning of the blood; it is day, then, to understand how Detective- Inspector D. G. Balthazaar, of the Daglar.
Polica, fell 1 ray to this crippling, agentaing
mandy after undergoing several operations for a serious complaint, arising out of injuries sustained in the execution of his duties, which lets him in a debilitated condition.
Now retired from the Police after many years of faithful service, Bir. Balthazaar resides in Hirmums Cross Road, Galle. where he made an interesting stalement on this subject recently
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"After leaving the-Colombo Goneml on which to inscribe their wishes for the Bospital soon found myself suffering posthumous allocation of their worldly Rheumatism," he explained. As time backpaine coupled with goods. One of the mrst remarkable, per passed the Rheomstim gained such a YOROBAMA: M. Asada, Esq.
hapa, laztiak of a· American Indy, Mis.hold that overy bene in my body ached, Florence Wright, of Hempstead, U.S.A., and I could not straighten my arms and
logu. CHINTLANG: Mesars Gearing & who disposed of an estate of £90,009 in Selation, tre, eaurod me 'much suffor-
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tity words on an old piece of wrapping ing. Night and day excruciating pains. MANILA: Messrs Macondray & Anther testator, Alfred W. Broth. fashed through my legs up to the small of well, 'wrote his will in chalk on a manger my back. For many months I could not before committing suicide at Long Button,ed that the doctors feared I would have to | stand erect ; my spine was so badly effect- in Lincolnshire. Another man, Edward is prone on my back, for the rest of my George Hunt, of Woking, who left ife. More than once my life was despair.J. £41,926, wrote his will fa a ledger, anded of, but thanks to my iron constitution I retained sutficient strength to baffle the luf was torn out of the book by death. order of the registrar. A merry Belgian who bequeathed his all to the village of Aden on condition that £12" be given 818 to the fire brigade to hars such a carouan
as was never seen before," scratched hese instructions on a piece of rusty iron with a sail. Snaersat House, too, can produce xamples of equally curious wilia. One was found in an even after having been OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the baked for months, and a send had been
TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this boiled for hours with dirty linen in a Company will be held at the Company's copper. A rich London bibliomaniae left Office, Victoria Buildings, on MONDAY, a note on an old envelope;" Will in Till" the 5th February, 1912, at NOON, for the There was, however, no till in the shop. purpose of receiving the Report of the and the accret of the mixing will, was Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st Decem-wrapt in mystory" until ante old books, which had passed into the persion of a The REGISTER of SHARES of the
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