The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-05
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
REX is racked by gout.

40
COUNT ToLsTo1 is clever mechanic.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to be suffering
from gout. .''1@
JUDGE ALLEN g. THURMAN is seventy
five years old.
LORD TENNYsoN is said to suffer severely
from the gout.
GENERAL BouLANGEn is quoted as saying
that rest fatigues him.
JESSE GRANT is in the City Of Mexico,
where he has mining interests.
MISS JULIA RHINELANpER possesses $780,
600, 900 in New York real estate.
RUsK1N, the art critic, is on visit toy Venice,
the first he has made in twelveyears.
THE condition of the mad millionaire,
Robert Garrett, has improved very much.
GENERAL and Mrs. Schofield have taken
apartments in Washington for the winter.
LORD SAcKvILLE will will soon visit Lord
Stanley, the Governor General Of Canada.
THE Earl of Lucan, who commanded the
famous charge Of the Light Brigade at Baia-
klava, Is dead.
THE Rev. DR.. William II. Scott, President
elect Harrison's father-in-law, is CLERK In
the Pension Office at Washington.
THE Prince Of Wales has lost his skill as a
marksman. He smokes ten cigars day and
many cigarettes, to the detriment OF nus
nerves.
GOVERNOR BLAKE, Of Newfoundland, has
been appointed Governor General OF Queens
land, with salary OF 81, 900 and enormous
emoluments.
COLONEL JOIN hay, author Of the Life
Of Lincoln, has purchased several acres OF
land at Lake Sunapee, n. h, where No WIZ
build summer residence. {
-
died O few days ago, left fortune OF from
S10, 900, 600 to SIS, ,C00,000 His life Insurance.
alone amounts to more than third OF
million. ..
Mrs. HARRISON, wife Of the President-elect
is said to be an enthusiastic and successfui
china painter. She has her own kiln for mr..
ing her china and attends to all the details OF
it herself. i.L
Mrs. MORTON, wife Of the Vice President3
elect, says she has done nothing but keep
house and raise family since she has oeeni
married. and that her Lille fulflls her idea OF
complete happiness |
Mrs HARRIET LANE JOHNSON, who PREF
sided over the domestic affairs OF the w hlte
House during Buchanan's administration,
has taken possession Of a house IN Washingt
ton and will spend the winter there.
MRS GROVER CLEVELAND is very fond OF
animals Among her pets, besides many
dogs of all sizes and degree, color and de-
scent, she has an Attorney COW, q Malteseg
cat, pair Of sorrel ponies, bird, rabbit
and fawn. i
MRS HUMPHREY WARD, author OF "Roo-i
ert Elsmere," was born in Australia. Her,
brother, Theodore, is schoolmaster in New!
Zealand. Her sister was married few
years ago to Leonard Huxley, son OF fro-i
fessor Huxley. !.
THOMAS A. EDISON still works as hard and
as industriously as though he was just BEL
ginning his career and any day he may 6e
found at his bench at his shop in Orange, NJ
j., hard at work in his shirt sleeves, making.
with his own hands models he considers too:
delicate to trust to another. :,
Mr.. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, who has just
married Miss Endcott, has an income OIL!
$500 from his factories in BIRMINGHAM!
He has an elegant house in q fashionable
part Of London, besides a mansion and tine
greenhouses at Birmingham. He is fifty.
years old, but looks as if he were not more
than forty.