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Show JU8T A QIRg HINT. One Remedy ApPrancea Indicated Nobleman HoWNever Tried. The carl of Surroy, afterward eleventh elev-enth duko of Norfolk, who was n notorious no-torious gourmand nnd hard drinker nnd n leading member ot tho Ileof-Bleak Ileof-Bleak club, was so far from cleanly In his person that Ids servants used to avail themselves of Ids fits of drunkennesswhich drunken-nesswhich wcro pretty frequent, by tho way for tho purpose of washing wash-ing him. On theso occasions they stripped him ns they would a corpse nnd performed tho needful ablutions. Ho was equally notorious for his horror ot clean linen. Ono day, on his complaining to Dudley North nt his club that ho had becomo a perfect per-fect martyr to rheumatism and tried every posslblo remedy without success suc-cess ,tho latter wittily replied: "Pray, my lord, did you ovor try a clean shirt?" |