The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-06-09

FISHERY IN 1t. In the evening, as 1
was taking my departure, I came upon
the German waiter who had attended at
the table, and limited that the rooms
might be kept in better order.
BLESS you sir" said the Kellner.
"the place has not been swept or busted
FOR fortnight; that ere gent is outra-
geous like if book or paper is touch
ed. The manager wants to get him
away, but he has taken the rooms for a
s %Sntf Hpsan yeSdr go t aGs aan'f Ike
to disoblige him
waiter" said stearnly, edo you
know who that ere gent, as you call
him, ISL
f"liz sir--no sir, replied the waiter,
in breath puzzled by the solemnty Of
my tone. .ts
Z /" That is Lord Lytton," | said ,"the
greatest man in all England. If you
see much OF him, and note down
carefully what may become a second
Boswell.
"Lor, sir said the waiter, "you don't
say SO. Our manager thinks the gent
is cracked; he goes ont in all weathers
without any great coat, and won't even
take an umbrella, then he never exam
ines his bills, hut scribbles of check
on any scrap of paper that comes to
hand. 1t was only the day before yes
| terday poor woman came with one OF
them bits of paper. She said the out
Iandish looking gent who lived in our
house had given it to her, and she did
not know what to do with it. He had
come into her cabin to light
his pipe while her husband,a poor fish
erman who was drowned in the last
gale, lay there dead. lie wrote it on
the back of an old letter, and said he
hoped it would do her good. You
can't think of the poor creatures sur
prise when l brought her back ten
sovereigns which the manager gave me
when he saw the paper. Surely sir, the
gent cannot be all right here" and the
waiter Significantly touched his fore
bead. lie promised to preserve faith.
full diary Of his lordship's proceedings;
but when returned to the hotel about
two years aiterward, l found that he
like the poor fisherman, had been
drowned in storm, and left nothing
behind but small boy, his son who
had been sent to school at the expense
of the hotel company, with a view of
educating him for the onerous stu
alton of a page.
Considering .LordLytton only occu-
pied himself in composition for four
hours every day, it is surprising the
amount of work he tried to get through.
He never had, a, any time during my
acquaintance with him, anything like
good health; he was always placing him
self under the care Of some physician,
and if he heard of any new remedy
which he thought might be applicable
to his own case, he was sure to avail
himself of it. Like his brother he dis
tinguished diplomatist, he became in
later life nearly confirmed hypo-
chondriac, although his intellectual
Po"ci uiu ho' Scch ih ahJ way ui"'h-
ished.
| was on visit at Sudbrook park,
near Richmond, about twenty years
ago. 1t was then a hypochondriac
presided over by a
physician Of eminence. To my sur
prise, met Lord Lytton strolling up
the avenue one morning, carrying his
pipe in one hand and small travelling
bag in the other. The London season
was at its hight, and Parliament
sitting; but he remained at least one
month, taking his meals at the public |
table, walking much in Richmond park |
and occupying himself with his papers
and pipe. The tobacco he smoked |
was not very strong, but the incessant
use of 1t must have been highly inju-
rious to nerves SO finely strung as his.
He seemed to me to have hardly any
appetite for food at breakfast he sci.
dom ate more than a mouthful of toast,
and having swalloweda cup of tea, flew
of to the solace of his beloved pipe.
There was, remember, space of
tangled brushwood Immediately behind
the house, where | have seen him sit
and saunter for hours together, ap-
parently absorbed in thought and no
one, although the house was full Of
people, ever thought of interrupting
his solitude. He arrived without any
servant, and never had a visitor dur,
ing the whole period of his soiourn.
At Knebworth, which is the hered.
ltary scat of the Lyttons, his mothers
family, the novelist did not, in his lat
ter life, reside much. A friend of
mine, the late Lady Murray, lived at
Andeibury, Only few miles distant,
and while on visit there, had fire.
4uent opportunities Of hearing of her
famous neighbor. lie was extremely
popular and beloved by the lower
ORDERS IN all parts of the country and
ms hospitality was apparently without
a limit People came from ali nar,s
OF the world, especially from America
TO Zee him. The house at Knshwor,r
was often full, but don't think the
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