The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-07-24

PRIGS OF THE PEERAGE.
Curious People Are to BE Found Among
the Nobility of Great Britain.

the Nobility of Great Britain
The eccentric nobleman is well To the
fore just at present in England He has
taken to amusing the mob. Last week
says a London letter to the Chicago
Herald, we had the Earl of Lonsdalt
racing against time on the public high
way, and to-day at Tattersalrs l hearC
that young Lord Roslyn has made a bet
with Lord Headley that he will eat two
pounds of steak and drink a gallon of
ale in less time than Lord Headley
takes to kill and skin a bullock. Rather
a promising exhibition this
\ day or two ago l met coming out of
his club the gentleman who rejoices in
the title of Baron Braye- lie had a tall
hat on his head and a soft hat in his
hand. He walked with thick Malacca
cane and he carried an umbrella under
his arm. He usually appears in thai
way on the streets. He says: Its so
deucedly convenient, you know" If it
rains he can put on his low-crowned
hat and stick up his umbrella, and then
it gives him a headache Ito wear the
same hat for more than half an hour"
The duke of Hamilton can be recog-
nized mile off by his clothes. They
are always of the same pattern-very
loud check, very baggy trousers, very
short coat and Il pot hat. He usually
has dozen suits made on the same
lines, color and pattern at the same
time, and he regularly, whenever it is
possible, changes his garments in the
middle of the day. When driving a
four-in-hand he is in the habit of step
ping into the inside Of the coach for a
few minutes and changing his clothes
before resuming the rcins. OF course
he wears black things at night, but
otherwise his wardrobe may be re-
gartied as one of the most peculiar in
civilization
Lord Lisle insists upon smoking
short clay pipe in the streets. He is an
Irish peer and not very well off. His
dining-room walls are adorned with
colored clay pipes, arranged in stars
and crosses, all of whichever five
hundred-have been smoked by his
lordship. 1t is said that he would have
been elected n representative peer OF
Ireland but for the fact that his brother
mobiles were afraid that he would dis
grace the sacred body of coronets by
smoking his short clay pipe on the ter
race of the house of lords.
Lord Gardner, fourth baron of his til
tie, 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
foreign marriages. This nobleman
lives all the year round in India, and
his baroness is a daughter of Prince
Mira Shiloe, a grandson of the late
king of Delhi. She is a coffee-colored
lady and enjoys her betel nut as thor
oughly as Nautch girl. Her lords
household is similar TO that of an Indian
rajah.
Lord Newburgh point-blanll declines
to be either an Englishman or a Scotch
man. although he IS the tenth peer of
his title. He is an Italian citizen and
calls himself Count Bandini-perhaps
one of the only instances on record
where a man prefers being an Italian
count to an English earl. NiscounJ
Taaffc. an Irish peer, positively declines
TO be an freshman of any description.
He and his father before him were nat
uraliZed Austrians, and the country has
agreed so well with him that he has
risen to the rank of prime minister TO
the Emperor Franz Josef. He also calls
himself n count-Count Taaffee.
But you have an instance of renunci-
alton of peership, as well as citizen
ship, in DIR. Contee Fairfax, of Virginia.
who, as is well known, is eleventh
Baron Fairfax in the peerage of Scot
land: but he finds II. however. greater
honor to be a citizen of the United