Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1909 — Cut Off with Shilling. [ARTICLE]

Cut Off with Shilling.

We often hear the threat of being "cut off with a sh ’Hing” by our peculiar and crochety relatives, but the following clause of a will is literal execution of it which would not be considered by many of us to be a very effective salve for the pain attending their demise: “Whereas, it was my misfortune to be made very uneasy by Elizabeth M —, my wife, from our marriage, by her turbulent behavior, for she was not content with despising my admonitions, but she contrived every method to make me unhappy; she was so perverse in her nature that she would not be reclaimed, but seems only to be born to be a plague to me. The strength of Samson, the knowledge of Homer, the prudence of Augustus, the cunning of Pyrrhus, the patience of Job, *the subtlety of Hannibal, and the watchfulness of Hermogenes could not have been sufficient to subdue her; for no skill or force in the world could make her good; and as we have lived separate and apart from each other for eight years, and she having perverted her son to leave and actually abandon me, therefore, 1 give her one shilling only.” Professor Wasserman, of Berlin, has succeeded in finding a serum which cures ptomaine poisoning._