BEGINNINGS OF NOBILITY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 52, 11 February 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

BEGINNINGS OF NOBILITY.

Some of the noble houses of England ( —which, however, are none the worse for it in the present generation—hat e had very humble beginnings. An ancestor of the Earl of Ferrers was hanged for murder at Tyburn. The father of the first Earl of Lonsdale, was a miser celebrated in English story. At a time when his income was about j £40,000 a year, Lowther was in the i habit of dining at one of the cheapest and obscurist eating-house in London. He visited this place as he supposed ‘incog.”; but having left it in high dudgeon because the price of certain articles had been advanced one farthing on the bill of fare, he was astonished to find himself lampooned soon afterwards as “Fathing Jimmy.” A striking case was that of the house of Audley, now extinct. The father of the first Ixird Audley was one Philip Thicknesse The son having got on famously in the world, the ne’er-do-wel’ father troubled him so dften for money that he at last refused to give any. Thereupon the old man proceeded to hire a cobbler’s shop in London near his soil’s mansion, and above the door caused to be painted in large letters this sign OLD SHOE'? MENDED BY PHILIP THICKNESSE, FATHER OF LORD AUDLEY. Tir's s'g-t produced the effect wh'ch the unscrupulous old man had intended, and he was able to withdraw from ‘"business” very promptly.

CANNOT BOLT.

The restive horse which bolts suddenly when its driver is absent, and after a career of destruction brings its load to a s+andstill against a lamp-post or shop-front, must be curbed somehow. An effective method of preventing fsuch escapades is the device illustrated here. A chain is fixed to the shaft and attached to the fetlock of the animal. Hooting motor cars and crunching traction engines can then pass the animal with impunity, for flight on his part is impossible.