Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-03-20

FREAKS OF RICH cRANKS.
Pastime of a Polish count-Odd Grab
of an EnuIish Gentleman,

OF an Gn9iisn Sontieman.
In Vienna there Is living today
Count k. a wealthy nobleman Of
Polish origin. who occupies a sumptu-
ously furnished fiat in the most fash
ionable part of the city. When he
wants his servants he summons them
by bugle calls, much to the annoy
ance Of his neighbors. His favorite
pastime 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 deck
ed from head to heel in virgin white,
with the exception of a black shirt
and tie, and when he dines-always
at one Of the most expensive restau-
rants-he begins his meal with a cup
of black coffee, and working his way
backward, winds up with the soup.
It is but a short time since there
died at Como a rich old man who was
noted for a very strange eccentricity.
Although for years he had never been
outside of 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
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tant village or town he made an es-
innate Of the distance and covered
II on foot on a carefully measured
walking track Of his grounds. When
he wished to call on his friends In the
district he would not only do 1t by
proxy, but would conduct the con-
versation for hours by sending SER
want to and fro with questions and
answers.
A well known italian count who
died recently at an advanced age mad
for many years defied the weather by
drinking solution Of camphor,
which he considered an efficient sub
stitute for clothes. Summer and WIN
ter alike he would sleep without a
particle Of covering and with the Win
dows of his room thrown wide open,
and would walk for hours in his gar
den on a bitterly cold day in the gar
ment most people devote to night
wear.
Not long ago, too, there lived near
Hastings a gentleman whose eccentric
tiles very naturally excited consider
able attention. Punctually at the
stroke Of noon each day he would
appear In his front garden with
gayly colored turban on his head, MS
feet shod with richly embroidered
and iewelled sandals and with coone
cloth round his waist; and, quite IN
different to the amusement he was
providing for a crowd of spectators,
would first pray aloud to the sun,
"the father of light and good" and
then PROSTATE himself before a quaint
miniature temple in which was en-
shrined a grotesque idol with dia-
mona eyes.
There Is at Cape Breton a worthy
and much married gentleman who
has just taken hrs eighth wife to
his heart and home. And gruesome
home 1t must be to greet home
coming wife, for seven of its rooms,
each painted I'm black and white
and literally garnished with
skulls and cros5bones. are dedicated
to wives numbers one to seven. AS
the birthday of each of these depart
ed spouses come around, the by no
means disconsolate husband, enter
talns his friends al dinner In the room
specially devoted to her memory ana
improves the occasion by telling az an
ecdotes to illustrate her many Vir-
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