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died it was found that he had not forgotten the incident, for there was added to his will a codicil revoking a clause in his wife's favor and bequeathing her only "one shilling for picking my pockets of sixty guineas." Evan Lewis Morgan, of Gwyllgyth, in Wales, in the ninety-eighth year of his age, made a new will which was probated; it was brief and to the point. It read as fol lows: "I give to my old, faithful servant, Esther Jones, the whole that I am possessed of, either in personal property, land or other wise. She is a tolerable good woman, but would be much better if she had not so clamorous a tongue. She has, however, one great virtue, which is a veil to all her foibles —strict honesty." David Hume and John Home used to have frequent discussions as to the correct manner of spelling their respective names, each insisted that his was the original, and the matter was not settled during life. Home detested port wine, while Hume preferred it to any other, and when the debate on patronymics waxed warm, the one would switch off to the merits or demerits of port wine. When David Hume died, the follow ing clause was found in his will: "To Mr. John Home of Kilduff, ten bottles of my old claret, at his choice, and one bottle of that other liquor called port. Also six dozen of port, provided he attests under his own hand, signed John Hinnc, that he has himself alone finished that bottle at two sittings. By this concession he will at once terminate the only two differences that ever arose between us concerning temporal affairs." Sectional prejudice was very marked in the will of New York's famous citizen, Lewis Morris. In part it reads: "In the name of God, Amen. I, Lewis Morris, of Morrisania, considering the many evil consequences of dying intestate, and that the disposition of an estate by will is one of the most important acts of a man's life, I have, therefore, thought proper to take advantage of that season of health and se

renity of mind which by God's favor I now enjoy to make this, my last will and testa ment, which, to obviate all disputes and con tention, I have endeavored to express myself in the plainest language. My body I desire to be laid in the family vault at Morrisania with as little pomp and show as my execu tors shall think proper to direct. The stock of negroes, cattle, horses, sheep, hogs and farming utensils I bequeath to my wife. It is my desire that my son, Gouverneur Mor ris, may have the best education that is to be had in England or America, but my express will and directions are that he be never sent for that purpose to the colony of Connecti cut, lest he should imbibe in his youth that lew craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, which is so inter woven in their constitutions that all their art cannot disguise it from the world, tho' many of them under the sanctified garb of religion have endeavored to impose upon the world for honest men." This will, so bitter against Yale Univer sity, and the colony of Connecticut espe cially, was dated Nov. 19, 1/60, "in the thirty-fourth year of His Majesty's reign." Lewis Morris had, himself, been educated at Yale, and perhaps imbibed his prejudice from some personal trouble. His son Gouv erneur was educated at King's College, now called Columbia, and had a brilliant career. Just after the close of the Franco-German war, a Capuchin monk, well known in the Faubourg- Saint-Jacques, Paris, where he fed nearly a hundred poor persons by alms col lected by him in the Faubourg Saint-Ger main, bequeathed his entire property, con sisting of his breviary, frock, cord, a volume by M. Thiers, and a wallet, as follows: "I bequeath: First, to the Abbe Michaud, my breviary, because he does not know his own: secondly, to M. Jules Favre, my frock, to hide his shame: thirdly, to M. Gambetta. my cord, which will prove useful one day round his neck; fourthly, to M. Thiers, his own work, that he may read it over again; and