The Saint Paul globe., 1897-03-22
TALBOT TO THE NORTH POLE.
This Much-TraveIed EngIishman Of
Noble Birth Is After Musk Oxen.

Those in this city who Ike the repu-
tation of being Anglomaniacs will
doubtless mourn when they hear of the
opportunity they have lost of meet
ing j. Talbot Clifton, cousin to the
Duke of Norfolk, the premier peer of
England and hereditary earl marsh
al and chief butler of the kingdom.
Lord" Talbot, as he is called in the
four quarters Of the globe, arrived here
ON the Aurania on Monday and went
to the Waldorf, where he remained un-
III last night, says the New York
journal. Then he left New York and
proceeded on his way to discover the
North pole. With him were his brother
Arthur, and his valet Belts
Clifton is closely connected with half
a dozen of the best families Of the
English nobility. and is a very wealthy
young man. He is about thirty-tWo
years of age, tall, slender and ultra
English in dress and manner. 1t is said
that at one time his income amounted
to something hkt a million a year, but
that his debts became so appalling that
he signed over his property, or most of
it. to his creditors, reserving for his
own use the modest annuity of $50, 900.
TRAVELLER, WRITER, ARTIST.
Talbot, is with all his eccentricities,
a very clever fellow and a really great
tions and good narrative stories, and
his pencil sketches are exceedingly
good. His little leather diary is most
exceedingly interesting blood, and
worthy of ones time to peruse. He
talks as calmly about going around
the world as though he were giving his
order for breakfast. He has been
around it four times. He is as well
known in San Francisco as in Gros-
venor square, London.
He has jOurneyed through Russia.
Siberia, Peru, to the most northern
part Of Alaska, and in those parts of
old Mexico to which he says no other
white man had previously travelled
Not content with the hunts of Lord
Lonsdale in British America for the
rare and elusive musk OK, this young
nimrod intends to penetrate to the most
desolate region Of Athabaska and cap
ture, If he can, one or two Of these
rare animals of that land He is a
fellow of the Royal Biographical So
ciety, and If he succeeds in capturing
pair of musk oxen alive, he will drop
all of his other plans for the time and
return at once with his prizes to Eng
land.
If he can get the musk OK dead only
he will go on north. hoping to meet
some whaler and invade the Arctic
regions. He hopes to reach a point
further north than any one else has
reached. The musk OK, for the capture
of which alive the London Geological
society has offered large prize, is an
ungulate Of the great family bovidae,
the most useful to mankind of all the
mammals. These oxen are more nearly
allied to the sheep than to the ordi-
nary OK, and would be appropriately
named the musk sheep. They are found
only in Arctic America and in Green
land, and are about the size Of small
COWS They have large heads and for
midable horns. The greater part of
the body is covered with a matted,
brown hair Of considerable length.
FOUR ON A DANGEROUS TRIP.
In setting out on this cold and lone
ly journey, with no other companions
than his brother, his valet and his
guide, Mr.. Clifton thoroughly realizes
the dangers and the hardships to
which he will be subjected. He has
been through both before, and they
seem to have more charm than terror
for him.
Really, you know" he said laughing
ly, In his sumptuous apartments at the
Waldorf yesterday, beans and bacon
are not a half-bad diet for a healthy
Britisher. and when you're actually
hungry they're positively good"
return-Talbot intends to write book
which will be illustrated with pictures
drawn by himself
Cliftons experience in San Francisco
is thing never to be forgotten either
by him or by any one who happened
to be in the city at the time. He was
a conspicuous figure there and tied
fast his faith to white Hat DAM
Mccarthy, the turfman 1t was an odd
icrbt TO TTa1
little friend, the top Of whose tall white
beaver came bearly to the big English.
mans shoulder, driving about in II
blackboard wagon drawn by a little
hunter which tried to take every gate
and fence toward which the odd pair
drove.
One day the little hunter manfully
tried to take a spiked gate while draw
ing the buck board and it's ill-mated
occupants. She came down on the iron
pickets, and, horribly torn, bled to
death. This stopped the Englishman
from driving hunters before buck
boards
AT the horse show of 1895 he was as
much of interest as any one of the
events on the card and visitors went
as much to see Lord" Talbot fall off
his horse as to see any of the other
performances. The big fellow thought
The Lark, one of his many purchases
from white Hat" Dan But almost
nightly he was flung over the head Of
the balky mare and buried his aristo-
cratic nose in the tan-bark
He was member of the Burlingame
Country club and established gentle
mans coaching line between San Fran
cisco and that place. Everything he
did, although done in the most serious
way. was meat for the humorous writ
ers Of the San Francisco newspapers,
who treated him about as the metropol-
itan press have regarded-well, Oscar
Wilde.
Clifton bears with him a letter of in
PRODUCTION from Lord Litchfield, in
which that esteemed peer refers to the
cousin of the Duke of Norfolk in glow
ing terms.