The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-23
PR.Gs OF THE PEERAee.
Curious People Arc to Be Found Among
 tI,o nzol,isifr, cf Great Isritain

Curious People Arc to Be Found Among
 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 Lonsdale racing against time on the public high way, and to-day at Tattersalls I heard that young Lord Roslyn has made 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.
 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 soft hat in his hand. He walked with thick Malacca cane and he carried an umbrella under his arm. He usually appears in that 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 ''to 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 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 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 reins. Of course he wears black things at night, but otherwise his wardrobe may be re- garded 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 five hundred-have been smoked by his lordship. It is said that he would have been elected representative peer of Ireland but for the fact that his brother nobles 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 ti 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 Mirza Shikoe, a grandson of the late king of Delhi She is coffee-colored lady and enjoys her betel nut as thor oughly 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 Bandini- perhaps one of the only instances 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 nat uralized 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 renunci- ation of peership, as well as citizen ship, in Dr. Contee Fairfax, of Virginia, who, as is well known, is eleventh Baron Fairfax in the peerage of Scot land; but he finds it, however, a greater honor to be citizen of the United States.