Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-06-05
PRla5 OF rHE PEERAGE.
Curious People Are to BE Found Among
the Nobility of Great Britain.

Curious People Are to BE Found monR
the Nobility of Great Britain.
The eccentric nobleman is well to the
fore in England. He has taken to ANUS
ing the mob. One week we had the Earl
of Lonsdale racing against time on the
public highway, and the next at latter
SAILS we heard that young Lord Rossl5n
made a bet with Lord Headley that he
would eat two pounds of steak and drink a
gal13n of ale in less time than Lord Head
ley would take to kill and skin bullock.
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 and a soft hat in his hand. He
walked with a thick Malacca cane and he
carried an umbrella under his arm. He
usually appears in that way on the streets.
He says. cts 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 headache ''to wear
the same hat for more than half an hour"
The Duke of Hamilton can be recognized
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 a dozen suits made
on shsssame lines, c'sior 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
INLAND 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 Lisle insists upon smoking a 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 500-have been smoked by his
lordship. Tt is said that he would have
been elected a 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 new English peers who not
only decline to live in their own country,
but 60 out of their way to unanglicize
themselves by eccentric foreign marriages.
This nobleman lives all the year round in
India and his baroness is q 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 Nautch girl. Her lords household is
similar to that Of an India raiah.
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 man prefers
being an italian count to an English earl
Viscount Taaffe, an Irish peer. positively
declines to be an Irishman of any descrip
ton. He and his father before him were
naturalized 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 him
| self count-Count Taaffee.
| But you have an instance of remuneration
| of peership as well as citizenship in 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 a citizen Of
| the United States.-London Cor. Chicago
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