Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-21
An Eccentric Lord.

The late Lord Kilmorey was over
ninetY when he died. He had been in
the Guards, and twas with Sir John
Moores army in the advance from sala.
manca to attach Soult, and in the sub
sequent disastrous retreat to Ccrunna,"
and chad seen as much of travel, sport,
and adventure, as much Of life in its
various phases, good and evil, as any
man Of his generation." But it was not
advisable to dwell upon the earlier part
of his career. In later life he had pas.
sion for buying places uu the Thames,
! improving and then selling them. On
one occasion, it being necessary for his
projected improvement that be should
add scrap Of waste land to his property,
he at once fenced it in. At night the
fence was pulled down.
s'He put it up again, and again it laid
low, the work of reparation and demol-
ition being repeated several times. At
length he devised plan of his own to
meet the case. He wrote at the top Of
half dozen separate sheets of fools. ca o
paper, Lord Ki!lmorey proposes to
give next Christmas to the poor of the
parish 2O0).' These sheets of paper he
distributed about the parish, one sheet
at the public house, another at the
butchers, third ct the chemists and
so on at other places of resort He then
proceeded to put up the fence again.
That night it was leyelled as usual. The
next morning he went the round Of the
places where the foolscap sheets had
been lodged, and made the following en-
try in each: TO cost of puttingup fence
lad r 1nc irh% To ho Il
Quoted from the above POOL"
A disturbance the next night was
treated in the same way, and then the
fence was allowed to remain, and at
Christmas the Earl distributed the 20OI.
without deduction. Another coveted
corner he was unable to obtain, though
he tried even more high-handed meas
ures. The piece Of land belonged 70
laundress, who refused to accept anoth-
er piece in exchange or double its value
in money. So the Earl waited till the
laundresses linen was hanging out to
dry and the wind blew off his own land
towards the drying-ground,, and then he
lighted a bonfire of green wood and
kept the dense smoke blowing upon the
linen for many hours. But "rhe laun-
dress held to her own, and the EarPs
quick resentment ere long eVaporated
with the smoke Of his own bonfire"
The earl was equally unsuccessful in his
attempts to force charitable institution
for female orphans to sell him GER
tain triangle Of land which he coveted.
His own property ran close UP the en-
trance gates Of the institution, and there
he established a marine store, festooned
with unsightly vessels in hope to annoy
tho governors into submission. When
he was nearly eighty he had fall at a
wayside railway station and broke two
ribs, but he insisted on continuing his
journey. At the terminus he refused to
leave the carriage, which was shunted
ON to siding, and there he remained for.
more than week. Some Of his friends
will remember having visited him in bis
extemporized hospital. AT the authors
office, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the earl
one day met another client who was
eighty and as proud of his age as
the earl himself, who was then eighty
five. The solicitor said: s@@5 .S,*
Let me introduce gentleman of
eighty-fya to gentl Of eighty
two tEighty-tWo, sirl" echoed the
earl, slightly raising his hat to Mr..
I1eyien, IS Il run you round the square
for q flyer" Some days afterwards Mr..
levien called On. the writer again, and
remarked slowly and with much soiem-
nifty, s I've been thinking 4 great deal
about that bet. { wish & had taken it,
London Atnen@um.