THE TEN GREATEST LIVING ENGLISHMEN

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1532, 8 April 1885, Page 2

THE TEN GREATEST LIVING ENGLISHMEN

The Pall Mall Qa*stte reeodtly offered a prise for the best list ef the ten greatest .living Englishmen, the cenpons themselves supplying the i*. quisite jory. Fourteen hundred aael fifty votes were received, and taking the largest number of votes recorded for any one person the result was franct to be as follows :— TBS GWRATSST UTIHQ 1. Fnriisn statesman (after Mr Gladstone) Lord Salisbury ... 3tß 2. Journalist George A. 8a1a ... Btß 3. Fainter J. E.MUfeis .. 814 4. Soldier Lord Wolaety ...1060 5. Man of Science . . . Profemor Haxlej dCft 6. Writer John Raskin ... 668 7. Novelist Wilkie Collins ... 34« 8. Preacher Cannon Liddon ...65)9 9. Actor Henry Irving ...13*7 10. Humbug . ...The Claimant ... 453 Only two competitors named tb* ten above, both being ladies, sod theorise was divided between tb*m. Bern* three or fpor papers were rttamd accurate in nine of tfee lines, b«i mil** in the tenth. One gwtlemaa sjetoaltr filled in nine names correctly, and left the tenth — the statesman — a blank. Now for a few of the curiosities. Qnr voter is not con tent with on* "h»mb'ift.'* "Herp," be snys, " one is no»-! byau over wJielni ing embnrras ie richft^m. The following may, however, be taken

M Unimpeachable »P^ im^ = Georg«, Henry Irvine, Lord R, Char chill, Lord Coleridge, Edi tor < rf 1 h Moving Post, proprietor of the foil} fSSZh. the Primrose League, three £rToYthe clergy, ditto lawyer., and $ tha professional spiritual i»ts and thought-readers. Takea that aU are equaHy gra* "0 man can select the • greatest though perhaps the palm onghf to be. awarded to the author of " Extra." One voter returned Mrs Lan»try as the greatest painter. His coupon was torn up. Another s*y« that Mr Gladstone is the greatest iictor. One sends bin paper leaving the space allotted to the. •• writer" a blank. Ha writes to us; "1 cannot recollect the name of the well known writer who recently edited and compiled the biography of Carlyie. Please inswrtit" The lists of humbngs w such delicious reading that we give it below. How the Pan Mall Gazette had the courage to print it we don't know. Any "colonial paper would have been inundated with libel actions. GREATEST KSTGUSH HUMBUGS. The Clamaint ... 453 Eno's Fruit Salt... 5 Oscar Wilde ... 230 L«rd Derby .. 5 Geaeral 800 th... 205 Barnaio ... 5 Wa R Churchill 147 *ir Johnßennet... 6 Irvin* Bishop ... 45 Mr Big«ar ...4 Mr Gladstone ... 44 Mdroe Blavatsky... 4 H. Bradlausjh ... 37 Lord Northbrook 4 Mr Warton, M. P. 38 Mr Whistler ... 4 MrLabouchere... 22 Henry George ... 4 Ashmead'Barlett 19 John Bright ...4 C. S. P*rnall ... 17 Sir E. Watkin ... 3 r>r Parker ... 1O Zn.dktel ... 8 Lord Coleridge... 10 H. E. Hawei» ... 3 Mr Eglint.m ... 9 Lord SaUshnry ... 3 Mr Chamberlain 8 Stuart Cumberland 3 Tracy Tarnerelli 7 F'>rb«s Winsl-m... 3 Baron Grant ... 7 Pears' S«ap ... 3 Ruskin .-. 7 Martin Tnnner ... 2 Augastus Harris 7 Archdea. Danbar 2 Sir W Harcourt 8 The Mahdi ...2 Sir W. - awaon... 6 SirS. Northcote... 2 Author of the Tyndall 2 Coenpetitimi ... 6J. N. Maskeyline 2 Owe Each. Mrs Wddoti, Lord Cairns, 8?r A. Clark, O-Donovan, Rossa, E. Tates, W. Holland, F. Har-mii, editor of Echa, H. Irving, MundoUft, editor 4 P.M.G., Toole, Osrar Browning, Fronde, Sir R. A, Cross, editor of Athenee'im, Bala, Father Ignatius, Mallock, Newdigate, aud Dr Lynn.

that there are no lets thaa seventy Archdnkei and Archduchesses belonging to the house of Hapsburg who all marry into the royal caste, form a clan among themselves, and do not associate od intimate terms even with the highest nobility. It is stated in the North British Agriculturist that three of the men engaged to slaughter cattle suffering foot and mouth disease, and belonging to Mr W. Webb, of Newstead Abbey, have contracted the disease by holding their knives in their mouths. An application was it is said, made to the Lords in Council to know whether the men were to be isolated or slatigh terod. " Decline of man. " — Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility, cured by " Wells' Health Renewer." Druggists Kernpthorne, i'rosser «fc Co., Agents, Christcburch.