St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
L0RDSHIPS
British Noblemen Whose
Queer Whims Make Them
Notorious.
individuals Who Deprive Eng
lands Most Venerable In
Stitution
OF Popular Respect--The Sad
Decay Of Feudal-
ism.
Alleged Men Who Are Noble
in Name but Not in
Fact.

taken to amusing the mob. Last week
we had the Earl of Lonsdale racing
against time on the public highway, and
to-day at TattersalPs heard that young
! Lord ROSslyn has made bet with Lord
Headley that he will eat two pounds of
| steak and drink gallon of ale in less
time than Lord Headley takes to kill
and skin a bullock. Rather a promising
exhibition this.
! A day or two ago met coming out of
his club the gentleman who rejoices in
the title of Baron Braye. He had a tall
hat on his head, aud soft hat IN his
hand. lie walked with thick Malacca
cane, and he carried an umbrella under
his arm. He usually appears that way
on the streets. He says: Its so
deucedly convenient, you know" If it
rains he can put up his low-crowned
hat and stuck up his umbrella, and then
1t gives him headache Ito wear the
same hat for more than half an hour. !"
The Duke of Hamilton can be recog-
nlZed mile off by his clothes. They
are always of the same pattern-very
| loud check, very baggy trousers, very
short coat and pot hat. He usually
has dozen suits made on the same
lines, color and pattern at the same
time, and he regularly. when it is pos
Sible,
Changes His Garments
| in the middle of the day.
When driving four-in-hand he is in
| the habit of stepping into the inside of
the coach for a few minutes and chang
ing his clothes before resuming the
reins, says the Philadelphia Press. Of
| of nj
| but otherwise his wardrobe may be re-
garded as one of the most peculiar in
| civilization.
Lord Lisle lnfists upon smoking a
short clay pipe in the streets. He is an
Irish peer and rot very we'll off. His
| dining room walls are adorned with col
ored clay pipes, arranged in stars and
crosses, all of whichever 500-have
been smoked by his lordship. 1t is said
| that he would have been elected a rep
| resentative peer of Ireland but for the
fact that his brother mobiles were afraid
that he would disgrace the sacred body
of cOronets by smoking his short clay
| pipe On the terrace of the
House of Lords.
! Lord Gardner, fourth baron of his
| title. is one of the few English peers
! who not only decline to live in their
| own country, but GO out of their way to
un-AngliciZe themselves by eccentric
all the year round in India, and his bar
i OneSs is a daughter of Prince Mira
/ Shikoe, a grandson of the late king of
Delhi. She is a coffee-colored lady, and
! enjoys her betel-nut as thoroughly as a
nautch girl. Her lords household is
similar to that of an Indian rajah.
/ Lord Newburgh point blank declines
| to be either an EngliShman or Scotch
man, although he is the tenth peer of
| his title. He is an Italian citizen and
calls himself Count neutrality-suspicious.
| the only instance on record where a
man prefers being an Italian count to
an English earl. Viscount Taaffe, an
Irish peer. positively declines to be an
Irishman of any description. He. and
! his father before him, were naturaliZed
| AuStrians, and the country has agreed
so we'll with him that he has risen to
the rank of prime minister to the En-
| peror Franz Joseph. He also calls him
self count-Count Taffe.
But you have an instance of renuncia-
ton of pecrship. as well as citizenship,
III DR.. Contee Fairfax. of Virginia, who
as is well known, is eleventh
Baron Fairfax
in the peerage of Scotland; but he finds
it, however, greater honor to be citi-
| zen of the United States.
Disgraced and blackguard peers are
now quite strong body in England.
One of the Irish earls, who was cor
poral in the life guards before he sue
| ceeded to his title, did six months hard
labor for some breach of military disci-
pine. Another peer, an English one,
and the son of lord high chan
celler, can never show his face in the
house of lords again. He committed a
disgusting crime. He has dropped his
title, and is now clerk to firm of auc-
tioneers in Australia. The Marquis of
! Ailesbury still affects his costermonger
suit on odd occasions, and likes to make
a bet that ne will sell a barrow of
green's as quickly as any hawker in
Whitechapel.- BY the way, it is inter
esting to note in the peeragefor 1891,
that he marchiOnesS once known as
Dolly Tester now figures as Dorothy
Julia, daughter of t. Hasely. Esq.
Testers Papa
was about as unmitigated a ruffian OF
| the tough tribe as England has ever
produced.
That cheerful gentleman who is best
known as Earl of Belfast, and is now
Marquis of Donegal. has reformed. He
no longer gets drunk in public houses
OF INDUCES in any other of the eccentric
freaks which gained him such an eX-
traordinary reputation; but then old
age is creeping upon him. and his once
] splendid physique is a wreck. The
Duke of Manchester, till lately Lord
Vaudeville. has not been heard of pub
licly since he succeeded in the higher
title, and hopes are being entertained
that he. may. yet prove worthy of his
! country'S pride. Of the rest of En-
said to explain why they should remain
| England's hereditary rulers. One OF
| the biggest of the lot of them, the Duke
lef Bedford, committed the vulgar act
| of suicide month or two ago: another
be Earl of Devon, inheritor of the
Proud HOnOrs
of the house of Courteney, dice an un.
| discharged bankrupt; another, Lord
| Connemara, was the defendant a short
time ago in so disgusting a case of di
vorce that he had to resign his Indian
| governorship; and so | could continue
with dignity after dignity, duke, Wis
| count. earl or baron, constantly being
/ dragged through the mud of the divorce
court or the slush of bankruptcy.
1t is daWning last Oh the EngllSn peO'
pie how foolish and useless it is to con
tinue such an institution, and one OF
the fin de steele acts of the English
parliament may be to do away with this
atrocious relic of feudalism. The trou.
Bile lies in the fact so many distinguished
fathers nowadays give birth to weak
and foolish sons. | have recently
seen the draft of bill that may be in.
.roduced by one of the members for a
London constituency for what is termed
the amelioralion of the upper house
While it does not ask for the annulment
of titles, it proposes to place an enor.
nous tax on the assumption of such a
handle, limiting, of course, the privilege
to direct heir. But the main iusy al
the proposed bill is to prevent any cod
cession of a seat in the upper chamber
Peers are to be nominated for life be