Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-16
FREAKS OF RICH cRANKs.
Pastime of a Polish Count-Odd Garb
 of an English Gentleman.

In Vienna there is living to-day Count K. a wealthy nobleman of Polish origin, who occupies sumptu- ously furnished flat in the most fash ionable part of the city. When he wants his servants he summons them by bugle calls, much to the annoyance of his neighbors. His favorite pasrime is to hire an omnibus and, dressed like an ordinary driver, to drive nfs cumbrous vehicle wherever fashion able equipages are thickest. He spends fortune every year on the costliest of clothes. yet never wears airy but the suits discarded by his valet: ap- pears in the ball room decked 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 exclusive of restaurants-he be- gins his meal with cup of black cof- fee and. working his way backward, winds up with the soup.
 IL 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 his grounds. he would proudly inform his visitors that he had that very day walked to certain villages fn the neighborhood. What he actually did was this: Whenever he made uT his miml to visit a distant village ol town he made an estimate of the dis tance and covered 1t on foot on a care fully measured walking track in his grounds. When he wished to call or his friends in the district he would not only do it by proxy. but would conduct a conversation for hours bl sending q servant to and fro witt questions and answers.
 A well known Italian count wh, died recently at an advanced age ha, for many years defied the weather by drinking a solution of eamphor. whicl he considered an efficient Sulstituf. for chotbeS. Summer and winter alik, he would sleep without a particle o coverins and with the windows of hi room thrown wide open. and wouli v-aIk for hours in his garden on a nit teTiy cold day in the garment mos people devote to night wear.
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