Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — The Order of the Garter. [ARTICLE]

The Order of the Garter.

London Truth. An evening journal, in a tion on the Order of the Garter, states that it consists of thirty-five ordinary knightsand thirty-five extrm knights, which is quite wrong. There is no fixed number of extra knights, who are all royal personages, and there were only six of them when the Queen’s reign commenced, whereas there are now twenty-three. During the last two financial years £l,320 has been paid by the public to the dean of the chapter of Windsor and to the Garter officers in respect of fees and expenses in connection with the creation of three extra knights. In all other countries such payments are made by the new knights themselves, but here the taxpayers find the money, and last year the Lord Chamberlain received £2,800 to provide and repair insignia of the various orders of knighthood. S. R. Crockett, of “Stickit Minister” fame, is a man whose fine physique and impressive size surprise the stranger.' He laid thn foundation ol his robust health in his boyhood, when he had to walk four miles across the moors every day to schoo .