A VIENNA ORIGINAL.
Vienna can boast a curious eccentric, who turns life up side down, a rich young pole, who lives in sumptuous style, but always summons his servants by bugle call. His favorjte pastime is driving an omnibus, attired like an ordinary 'busman, and though he is said to spend a fortune each year in clothes^ he wears no garment until it has been worn by his valet. He has astonished guests at a ball by appearing in a costume of pure white, save for the shirt and tie, which were black. To complete his oddities, when dining, which he invariably does alone at a table d'hote, he reverses the usual order beginning his meal with the sweets and ending with the soup.
With respect to any final aim or end, the greater part of mankind live at hazard. They have no certain harbour in view, nor direct their course by any fixed star. —Archbishop Leighton.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 12 June 1912, Page 7
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157A VIENNA ORIGINAL. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 12 June 1912, Page 7
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