People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — A Strange Legacy. [ARTICLE]

A Strange Legacy.

An original individual of Mons, who during his lifetime was fond of good living, has just died leaving a legacy of £6OO to five friends under the following extraordinary conditions: The legacy must be spent on dinners served at different restaurants, and the deceased had stipulated that at each meal a certain special dish and particular wine, of which he was very fond, shall ’be served, and that at dessert his memory shall be drunk. Furthermore, the five companions must dine in black clothes and black gloves, and must enter the dining room preceded by a flag and the music of an accordion. The first dinner took place at Brussels recently, and the injunctions were carried out to the letter. Of the five friends two are from Brussels, one from Antwerp, one from Mons and one from Charleroi.— Pall Mall Gazette.