An Old Woman.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 3, Issue 13, 16 February 1892, Page 3

An Old Woman.

■ The Dowag.r Lady de Ros, w died in Eaton place on Tuesday, I the givat age of 516 (says •ho Lund I Daily News of December 18), w ‘ present at tlie fainots Pall in lirutsi on the night before the battle Waterloo, commemorate! in Lo Byron’s well known poem. She p on the Duke of Wellington’s swo w en lie went to meet Napoleon* ai the scene of the festivities wa* tl house of her father, the Dnk<* of Kiel monJ. Nine years’ afterwards si married the Hoi. William Lenin: Lundies de Ho.s, af'.srwards twentiel burou of tiiat ilk, woo iu 1839 su< ceeded his bro her, the hero of it famous raid case. Her husband die in 1874, and the present Lord de Kt is her son. Lady de Ros is believe to have survived every officer, if no every man who fought at Waterloo Lord Albemarle and General Which co<e having died within tlie presjn year. Lady de Kos published a fet months ago her reminiscences of th ball, with a description of the building and the street in which it was held. As there is a popular superstition it China that telegraph poles cast balefu shadows od the graves of decetaec unc<stoiß, tlie wires are being buri«d tc save trouble, The turbot, which produces ns mud as 10,000 ObO of ova, is the must ferlih of flat fishes,