Quite a singular will has been made by the Rev. Dr. Mercer of Newport, R. I., recently deceased. After a number of small bequests the property, amounting to about $200,000, is left in trust for the payment of annuities to eleven persons, old and young. At their death one-third of the property is then to be given to the presidents of Yale and Harvard Universities and to the Smithsonian Institution, for the establishment of scholarships for poor students; another third has been left to the laboring poor of England and Italy. Harvard's third of a third of this estate is too far removed into the dim future to warrant any great congratulations.
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The Controversy of Philosophers.
