Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-06-07
FREAKS or RICH cRANks.
Pastins Of q Polish count-odd Garb
Of an English Gentleman.
From Tidhits

From Tidbtts. !
In Vienna. there is living today
Count k. a wealthy nobleman OF
Polish origin. who occupies a stump
.ously furnished fiat in the most fash
toHable part of the city. When he
wants his servants he then,
by bugle calls. much TO the annoyance
of his ~neighbors. His favorite pastilne
is TO hire an omnibus and. dressed like
an ordinary driver. to drive his cum
brouS vehicle wherever ariStocratic
e%quipages are thickest. He spends Il
fortune every year on the coStliest OF
clothes. yet never wears but the suits
discarded by his valet. appears in the
ball room decked from heed to heal in
virgin white. with the exception of n
black shirt and tie. and whcn he dimes
always ut one of the most exclusive
restaurants-he begins his meal with u
cup of black coffee and. working his
way backward. winds w with the soup.
1t is but a short time since there
died at Como Il rich old man who MAS
noted for Il 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 neigilborhood. What he actually
did was this: Whenever he made up
his min To visit n distant Nillage or
town he made an estimate OF the dis
lance and covered it on foot on II care
fully measured walking track in his
grounds. When he wished Ia call ON
his friends in the district he would
no only do it by proxy. but would con-
duct a conversation for hours by send
Ing a servant to and fro With questions
and
\ we'll known Italian count who died
recently at an advanced age had for
man years detied the weather by
drinking Il solution OF carnphor. which
he considered an efficient substitute for
.l,thaS Summer and winter olik., ba
would sleep without a particle Of COW
ering and with the windows of his
room thrown wide open. and would
walk for hours in his garden On a bit
terlE cold day in the m most
people devote To night wear.
Not long ago. too. there lived near
Hastings II gentleman.whoSe eccentrici-
tics very naturally excited considerable
attention. Principally at the stroke of
noon each day he would appear in his
front garden with n gayly colored tur-
ban on his head. his feet shod with
richly embroidered and jeweled SAN
dals and with Il coolie cloth round his
waist; and. quite different TO the
amusement he was providing for il
crowd of spectators. would first pray
loud to the sun. the father of light and
flood" and then prostrate himself be-
fore a quaint miniature temple in
which was enshrined a grotesuue idol
with dia eyes. -
There Is az Cape Breton a worthy and
much married gentleman who has just
taken his eighth wife to his heart and
home. And n gruesome home it must
be to greet il homecoming wife. for
seven OF its rooms. each painted in
black and white and literally gar
nished with skulls and c~rossbones. are
dedicated to wives numbers one to
seven. AS the birthday of each OF these
departed spouses comes aIOund the by
no means disconsolate husband enter
tains his friends at dinner in the room
lpecially devoted to her memory and
Improves the occasion by telling anec.
Notes to Illustrate her many virtues.