The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-28
PRIGS OF THE PEERAGE.
CURIOUS People Arc tn Ise Found Among
the Nobility Of Great Britain.


The Nobility 0f Great Britain.
The eccentric nobleman IL we'll to the fore
just at present in England, says n London
letter to the Chicago Herald. He has taken
to amusing the mob. Last week we had the
earl OF IIonsdale racing against time OH the
public highway, and to-day at Tattersalls
heard that young Lord Kosslyn has made
bet with Lord Headley that no will oat
two pounds OF steak and drink a gallon Of
ale III less time than Lord Hcadtey takes to
XII ana skln bullock. Rather promis-
ing exhibition this.
A day or two ago met coming out OF his
club the gentleman who rejoices in the title
OF Baron Brave. He had tall hat on his
head and a soft hat in his hand He walked
with thick Malacca cane and he carried nm
umbrella under his arm. He usually ap-
pears that way on the streets. He says:
Its 50 dencedly convenient, you know"
Ii IT rains he can put on his crowned
hat and stick up his umbrella and then it
gives him headache ito wear the Same
nat for more than nu hour"
The Dake of Hamilton can be recognized
mile off by his clothes. They are always
OF the same pattern--yery loud check, very
baggy trousers. very short coat and pot
nat. He usually has a,dozen suits made on
the same lines. color and pattern at the
same time. and he regularly, whenever it is
EoonAbit, GuaLRSB llib RdEIuGllta III Lllc llllu-
die OF the day. When driving a four-in
hand he Is in the habit of stepping into the
inside of the coach for few minutes and
changing his clothes before resuming the
reins. Of course he wears black things at
night. but otherwise his wardrobe may be
regarded as one of the most peculiar in
civilization.
Lord Llsle insists on smoking short
clay pipe in the streets. He is an Irish
peer and not very we'll off. His dining
room walls are adorned with colored clay
pipes, arranged in stars and CROSSES all of
whlcn-oyer 50O-haye been smoked by his
lordshlp. 1t is said that he would have
been elected representative peer of Ire
land but for the fact that his brother no.
bles 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 foreign marriages.
This nobienan lives all the year round in
India, and his baroness is daughter of
Prince Mira Shikoe grandson of the late
king Of Delhi. She is a coffee colored lady,
and enjoys. her oetel nut as thoroughly as a
Nautch girl. Her lords household is SINH
lar to that of an Indian rajah.
Lord Newburgh point blank declines to
be either an Englishman or a Scotchman,
although he is the tenth peer of his title
He is an Italian citizen, and calls himself
Count neutrality-suspicious. one of the only
instances on record where a man prefers
being all Italian count to an English earl.
Viscount Taatfe, an Irish peer, positively
declines to be an lrishman of any descrip-
ton. He and his father before him we're
naturalized Austrians, and the country has
agreed so we'll with him that he has risen to
the rank of prime minister to the Emperor
Franz Josef. He also calls himself a count
Count Taaffee.
But you have an instance of renunciation
of peership, as we'll as citizenship, in DR..
Contee Fairfax, Of Virginia, who, as is we'll
known, is eleventh Baron Fairfax IN the
peerage of Scotland; but he finds it, how
ever, greater honor to be a citizen of the
United States