THE LATE LORD HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2200, 14 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE LATE LORD HAMILTON.

M'AKY anecdotes are finding their way into the Paris papers with respect to the wild doings of Lord Charles Hamilton, the heir to the dukedom, who died the other day lit Hycres. In Paris oue of his favourite freaks was to give a mapninVent supper party at the Mawon dOr, and to wind up the cveuing by flinging the whole of the table equipage into the street. At Baden he was addicted to scattering rouleaux of gold, to be scrambled for by the crowd which gathered vmderneath the window of the Conversationhaus. On one occasion, having quarrelled with his mistress, he threw a uccklaoe he had presented her with of the value df £2000 into the Kiver 60s. Bnt it was afterwards fished up again, The last time he" was in Paris was in 1379, when lie dissipated in a single orgie the month's allowance, which ho had }ust received' froir his family. He had married the divorce wife of M. Paskiewitch, but h,ad been separated from her. Then, washing to contract a second marriage with a young lady for whom he had conceived a violent passion, he embraced Roman Catholicism in the mistaken belief that by sd doing, he would invalidate his previous union. Latterly he had completed the wreck of his constitution by the abuse of chloral, and chloroform, atjd his stormy life was brought to a close in the midst of the' orange groves of Hyercs.

A new style of boya' tr ousers has been invented, in America,, with a copper stiat, Bhe.et-ifon- knees, riveted down the seams. and vfat!ei;proof pockets to hold broken epgs. "Tfiank Heaven, exclaimed a fond father, '^■hdtya'cedthq floor at midnight with his iiowling heir— •" thank Heaven you are not twins ! " Mit J. M-. Keillkr, of Dundee, has just demonstrated the power of mar- • inalade by purchasing one of the he3t grouse moors in Aberdeenahirp. The moor 'is in the* favoured district of ■Deeside, and within easy reach pf Bal» moral. The Marquis of Hnntly wanted £50,000 for the property, which amounted to £5 an acre ; but, doubtless, he has been • contented with a good deal less. Enemies of early rising will be delighted to hear the opinipn of a German doctor, who has been collecting information about the habits of long. < lived persons, aud finds that the majority of long-livers indulged in long hours. At least eight out of ten persons over 80 never went to bed till well into the small hours, and did not get up again till late in the day. Indeed, he considers that getting up early tends to exhaust physical power and shorten life, while the socalled invigorating early hours are, he thinks, apt to produte lassitude, and are poasitively dangerous to some constitution's". Mr Gr. A. Sala declined an invitation to come forward as a Liberal candidate for Hornsey division of Middlesex. Replying to the invitation of the Liberal and Radical Association, he wrote: — " Had your invitation been addressed to me six months ago, I would willingly have sought the suffrages of your* electorate ; and had I been returned, I would have done my best in the House of Commons to advocate and to vindicate that great Liberal cause of which, for more than^O years, I have been an earnest, albeit an obscure, supporter in the columns of the London daily Press. But a dreadful domestic bereave meht with which 1 1 wasK stricken ou December 31, 1885, ha* left me a heart-broken' and desolate old man, utterly without ambition, and totally indifferent to the pros and con.l of party strife. I have no heart to go mto 1 Parliament, and I should be no good to my constituents if I went there." j LOBD' KANDOIiPJI'S FAVOUHITE POET. — Lord Randolph Churchill is nowadays eliding his political «p«echea with poetical tags almost as invariably us' Methodist lofcal preaohers wind up 'their discourses toith a 1 teme from a hymn, In Ulator he paraphrased Campbell. Now iv the city he quoted Burns und wound up with Byron; to whom ho patronisingly referred as <l a poet who had Homo political experience, and who may almost at times have approtohed statesmanship." The lines with which he took hie leave of the city Conservatives were these ; — ' A thomand years scaicr serve to form a State ; An hour may lay it in thfi dust ; and when, Can roan its shattcr'd splendor renovate, Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate > If Lord Randolph takes Byron as his statesman-poet ho will huve to travel fast and far on the revolutionary road,