New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-08
THE FOREIGN MAILS.
LORD KILMOREY'S ODDITIES.
Lf,on The AfhfnUMha.

From The AnaenGuD.
The eccentricities of the late Lord Kilmorey were
20 well known that il was scarcely necessary 10 at
tempt to Disguise him under the name OF the Ear OF
Drayton. He was over ninety when ne dled' re
had been i'm the Guards, and " was with Sir Jonn
Moores army in the advance from Salamanca 10 at
tack Sout and il the subsequent disastrous retreat
10 Corunna" and had seen as much OF traVei,
sport and adventure, much of life IN lts various
phases, good and evil, rs any man OF DIS genera
tom But il was not advisable 10 dwell upon ,ne
earlier part of his career In Later me ne n'sl
passion for buying places on the NAMES Ios
necessary for his projected Improvement that ne
should add scrap of waste land to ms property,
he at fenced it in: Az night the fence was
was laid low, the work of reparation and demontoh
being repeated several times. At length ne devised
a plan of his own 10 meet the case He wrote at une
top of half dozen separate sheets OF fooscap paper
Lord DraytOn proposes to give next Christmas 10
le poor of the parish f20O' These sheets OF Papea
he distributed about the parish; one sheet at tne
publichOuse another at the butcher s. and SO On at
other places of resort He then proceeded TO Put up
the fence again. That night ii was leveilea as
usual The next morning ne went the round of the
places where the fOolscap sheets had been lodged
and made the following entry IN each 10 cost OF
putting up fence pulled down last night, To- 10 DC
deducted from the above E2O0!" -.
A disturbance the next night was treated IN the
same way, and then the fence was allowed 70 re-
MAN, and at Christmas the earl distributed tne
goo without deduction. Another coveted corner nc
was unable to obtain though he tried even more
high-handed measures The piece OF land DelouRcu
"a
in exchange or double its value in money. 80 ire
earl waited till the laundresss linen was haugin7
out to dry and the wind blew off his own land
toward the drying ground, and then ne lighted a
bonfire of green wood and kept the dense smoke
blowing upon the linen for many hours: But the
laundress held to her own, and the earls quick re-
sentiment ere long evaporated with the smoke OF MS
own bonfire" The earl was equally unsuccessful IN
his attempts to force charitable institution 1Or
female orphans to sell him certain triangle OF land
which he coveted. His own property ran close up
to the entrance gates of the institution, ana there
he established a marine store festooned with .un-
slightly vessels in hope TO annoy the governors INTO
submission. When he was nearly eighty he had
1al at q wayside railway station and broke TWO
ribs but he insisted continuing his journey Az
the terminus he refused to leave the carriage, wmcn
was shunted on to a siding, and there he renamed
for more than week Some of his friends Will re,
member having visited him in his extemporized
hospital -, -,
At the authors office, in LncOln's Inn Fields the
earl one day met another client who was eghty-two
and as proud of his age as the earl HIMSELF who was
then eighty-fve. The solicitor said: Let me IN
troduce a gentleman of eighty-ive 70 gentleman
of eghty-twop "Elghty-two, sirW echoed the
earl slightly raising his hat to Mr. Levien I'll run
Won round the square for flyer" Some days after
ward Mr. Levien called the writer again, and re
marked slowly and with much solemnlty: i've
been thinking great deal about that bet WISH
had taken it,