The Arizona sentinel., 1885-04-18
AN ODD ENGLISH. GENTLEMAN.
Lord DudIey's Habit of Thinking Out Loud ---Other Eccentricities.
 [All the Year Roundl

Lord Dudley's Habit of Thinking Out Loud ---Other Eccentricities.
 [An the Year Roundl
 "Lord Dudley" says MT. Moore, lit is well known, has trick of rehearsing over to himself, in an undertone, the good things he is about to deliver to the company, so that the per son who sits next to him has generally the advantage of his wit before any of the rest of the party. A man not very remarkable for his agreeableness once proposed to walk from the House of Commons to the Travellers club with Lord Dudley, who, discussing the pro- posal mentally Gas he thought) with himself, said audibly, I don't think it will bore me very much to let him walk with me that distance On another oc- casion, when he gave somebody seat Ill hls carriage from some country house, he was overheard by. his con- pa.Iions, after fit of thought and si- lence, saylng to himself: Now, shall l ask this man to dine with me when we arrive in town? It is said that the jellow-traveler muttered out ill the same sort of tone: Now, if Lord Dud- le, should ask me to dinner, shall ac- cept hIs invitation?
 A happy specimen of his wit was this retort to a German lady at Vienna who had somewhat rudely complained of tine bad French spoken by "you English" in London. "True, madam" he said, i've have not enjoyed the advantage of having had the French twice in our capital"
 This recalls a retort about as good made by an Englishman to the Due de Broglie when Ambassador in England, who said, with equally lax manners, that they were right in thinking the English nation of shopkeepers. "Per- haps so," was his reply, "just as we al- ways thought you were nation of sol diers"
 After his retirement his curious ma- mia and various oddities increased to an extravagant degree, and were the talk of the town, which, however, soon came to accept them as it does all kinds of oddity. He would go to dinner parties and sit without uttering word except ing to himself. During some brief flashes of silence" MT. Raikes tells of a friend of his whom he describes as good-natured and very good-looking man, not overfowing with intellect. "It was at time when poor Dudley's mind was on the wane, when his causttc hu- nor would still find vent through the cloud that wa< gradually overshadow- ing his masterly intellect; he was sit ting in his room, unheeding those around him, and soliloquizing aloud, as was so often his custom. His fayOrite New Foundland dog was at his side. who seemed to engross his whole at tention. At length, batting his head. he exclaimed: 'Fido, mic, they say dogs have no souls. Humphl And still they say - has soulp Upon one occasion he found MT. Allen at Whites. about o'clock, and asked him to din ner. On his arrival at Park lane, he found it was a tete-a-tete with the host. When in the evening, he was asked how the dinner wont off, Allen said: Lord Dudley spoke little to his servant and great deal to his dog, but said noth- ing"
 In this state, too, he would invite large companies to dinner, who. stranger still, would accept his invita- tions, though, when they came he would not address them. MT. Moore. who loved cheerfulness and grayety. complained mournfully of these festivi. ties as damping and depressing. For the host would sit the whole time ill a sort of stupor, or converse with him. self, or have a volume of Hume open before him, which he would read throughout the dinner. This was the beginning of the end. A short time in 1882, it was known that the doctors had directed that he should be put under restraint, and on the 9th of March, 1883, this brilliant, but ec- centric man expired. He was only g. A relation of his, the Rev. MT. Ward. succeeded to the title with e4,000 a year only, while eSO,OOO year passed to this clergy'man's son, the present