Springfield Republican

A recent Paris paper gives the will of the wealthy M. d'Aligre, recently deceased, who cut off his only daughter with the smallest sum the law permitted—she will only have $80,000 income. He has distributed the rest of his gigantic fortune in a most singular manner, among some two hundred persons of all ranks and characters. The knobs of a valuable pair of diamond earrings, for example, are bequeathed to a Hospital, and the drops, worth $4,000, to Mlle. Falcon, the opera singer, "for the pleasure," says the will, "I had in hearing her sing once." The annual income of the property, including 71 houses at Paris, was $520,000, yet M. d'Aligre was so parsimonious that seeing his servant one day with a smart looking hat, he reprimanded him for his extravagance.—"But it is the old hat you gave me; I had it ironed over for a franc." "Ah!" said M. d'Aligre, "but I did not know it could be restored—here is the franc you paid—I will take the hat," and he transferred the renovated beaver to his own head.