UNKNOWN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 9, 11 January 1901, Page 4

UNKNOWN

" Mark Twain'<*<co bought a horse b> auction -In afternoon.. he says. ! aucuor. yf-ture into the plaza, ano rf"ln cit'iz^ lleld h ' m b >' the head ' 1110 cc [ l. . .Jii' tail, while I mounted him. A? 0 !mcv"le( u". he placed all his feet in sr.on ]o .^ red Ws back, and a , . suiMeoiy arched it upward, and shot into the air. a matter of three 'four itet. 1 came as straight down again, j;'t in the saddle, went instantly up a<Jftin, rarne down almost on the high pommel, shot un again, and r.ame down on the horse's neri, all in the space of three or four seconds Then he and stood almost straight up on his hmd feet, and I c'asping his lean reck desperately, slid back into the saddle, and held on. He came down, and immediately hoisted his heels into the air, delivering a licior.s kick at the sky. and stood on his tore feet; ar.d then down he came once more, and began the original exercise n: shooting n:e straight up again. The third time T went up, I heard.a stranger say, "Oh. don't he buck, though!' While I wis up, somebody struck the horse a sound-Ih-.vnck with a leather strap, and when I arrived again ' the horse* was not there. PEERAGES ON TR^DE. In olden times, the wealth and commerce ol I.ondon, conducted as it was by energetic and enterprising men. was a prolific scarce of peerages. Thus, the earldom of Cornwallis was founded by Thomas Comwallis, Ihe Cheapside merchant; that of Essex by William Capel. the draper; and that of Craven by William Craven, the merchant tailor. The modern Earl of Warwick is not descended from *' the kingmakers," but from William Grcville. the xvoolstapler; whilst the modern Earls of Northumberland find their head, not in the Percies, but In Hugh Smithson. a respectable London apothecary. The founders of the families of Dartmouth. Kadnor, Ducie, and Pomfret were respectively a skinner, a silk manufacturer, a merchant tailor, and a Calais merchant , whilst the founder of the peerages of Tankerville, Dormer, and Coventry, were mercers. The ancestors of Earl Komney and Dudley and Ward were goldsmiths and jewellers; and Lord Dacres was a banker in the reign of Charles 1., as Lord Overstone is in that of Queen Victoria. Edward Osborne, the founder cf the dukedom of Leeds, was apprenticed to William Hewet, a rich cloth-worker on London Bridge, whose only daughter he courageously rescued from drowning by leaping into the Thames after her, and eventually married. Among other peerages founded by trade are those of Fitzwilliam, Leigh, Petre, Cowper, Darnley, Hill, and Carringtoa - _■: