The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-02
FREAKS OF RICH CRANKs.
Rastime Of 4 Polish Count-Odd Garb
ef an English Gentleman.

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In Vienna there is living today Count
x. a wealthy nobleman of Polish
origin, who occupies sumptuously
furnished fiat in the most fashionable
part of the city. When he wants his
servants he summons them by bugle
calls. much to the annoyance of the
neighbors. is fayorite pastime, says
Tit-Bits. is to hire an omnibus and,
dressed like an. ordinary driver, to
drive his cumbrous vehicle wherever
aristocratic equipages are thickest.
He spends fortune every year on the
costliest of clothes, yet never wears
any but the suits discarded by his
valet; appears in the ball room decked
from head to heel in virgin white, with
the exception of black shirt and tie,
and when he dimes, always at one of
the most exclusive of restaurants
begins his meal with a cup of black
coffee and, working his way backward,
winds up with the soup.
It Is but short time since there
died at Como rich old man who was
noted for a very strange eccentricity.
Although for years he had never been
outside his grounds, he would proudly
inform his visitors that he had that
very day walked to certain villages in
the neighborhood. What he actually
did was this: Whenever he made up
his mind to visit distant village or
town he made an estimate of the dis
lance and covered it on foot on a care
fully measured walking track in his
grounds. When he wished to call on
his friends in 1.-THE district he would not
only do it by proxy, but would conduct
conversation for hours by sending
servant to and fro with questions and
answers.
A well-known Italian Count who
died recently at an advanced age had
for many years defied the weather by
drinking solution of camphor, which
he considered an efficient substitute for.
clothes. Summer and winter alike he
would sleep without particle of COW
ering and with the windows Of his
room thrown wide open, and would
walk for hours in his garden on bit.
terly cold day in the garment most
people devote to night wear.
Not long ago, too. there lived near
Hastings gentleman whose eccen-
tricities very naturally excited con-
siderable attention. Punctually at the
stroke of noon each day he would APP
pear in his front garden with gayly
colored turbaa on his head, his feet
shod with richly embroidered and jew
eled sandals and with a coolie cloth
round his waist; and, quite indiffer-
Nent to the amusement he was provid-
Ing for crowd of spectators, would
first pray aloud to the sun. "the father
of light and good" and then PROSTATE
himself before a quaint miniature tenn
ple in which was enshrined gro
tesque idol with diamond eyes.
There is at Cape Breton worthy
and much married gentleman who has
just taken his eighth wife to his heart
and home. And a gruesome home it
must be to greet home coming wife,
for seven of its rooms, each painted
in black and white literally garnished
with skulls and crossbones, are ded-5
icated to wives Nos. ! TOT. AS the.
birthday of each Of these departed
spouses comes around the by no means
disconsolate husband entertains his,
friends at dinner in the room specially
devoted to her memory and improves
the occasion by telling anecdotes to IL
lustrate her many virtues.