Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — A Posthumous Joke. [ARTICLE]

A Posthumous Joke.

In the London probate registry is a will dated 1791, by which the testator left SSO a year to be spent on whisky to be given to a number of Irish people, not exceeding twenty, who may visit the cemetery on the anniversary of his death. Each is to go with a penknife and a stout stick, and the whisky is to be distributed in half-pint doses. The object is thus explained by the testator: “Knowing what I know of the Irish character, my conviction is that with * these materials given they will not fail to destroy each other, and when, in course of time, the race comes to be exterminated, this neighborhood, at least, may perhaps be colonized by civil and respectable men.” The thoughtlessness of people is so great in regard to watchfulness against Colds, etc., that were it not for the wonderful curative power of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup we should shudder at the fate of such.