Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — A Swell at Sea. [ARTICLE]

A Swell at Sea.

Sir John Paklngton, afterwards Lord Hampton, when he was first lord of the admiralty, went in for plenty of hard work. He was, moreover, always very smartly dressed. On one occasion he kept a whole cabinet council waiting. When he arrived, Lord Derby, the prime minister, remarked that they had been waiting for him. “I am very sorry, my lord,” replied Sir John, “but I was at Spithead." “Then,” said Lord Derby, ‘Til be bound there never was such a swell there before.”