The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-25
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mr. GLADSTONE plays the violin-with no
great success, however.
EVERY few days the Queen Regent of Spain
sits for a new photograph.
Rev. E. P Roe and Mark Twain each
make over SEQ, 900 year by their pens.
Rev. Mr.. STURGEON, the London divine,
sometimes wears a single-barreled eye.glass.
bob" GARRETT, e1-President of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, is hunting tigers in
India
THE daughter Of Prince Nicholas, uf Monte
negro. is to be betrothed to the Czarewitch
of Russia.
DR.. JOHN HALL is worth million and
breaches to New York congregation worth
$400, 100000
The Prince Of Wales's income from the
Duchy Of Cornwall was nearly $500, 600 for
the last tyear.
ROBERT LEWIS STEVENSON, the author of
.Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" was paid 5000
for his latest novel.
WILLIAM L. SCOTT. Of Erie, Penn, pays
his cook twice the salary which he himself re-
ceives as Congressman.
WHILE W. w. Corcoran, the philanthro-
pist, was on his death bed he drew check for
$500 for the widow Of young man who had
committed suicide.
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, has pre-
sented his large and valuable collection of
medical and surgical books to the Medical
Library of Boston.
j. E. FITZGERALD, of Montana, the Presi-
dent Of the Irish National League in Amer
lea, was fifteen years ago earning so 0cents
day. Now he is worth S, ,0OO, 600.
UNITED STATES SENATOR REAGAN has
held public Office for fifty years, his first ap-
pointment being to the position OF surveyor
Of public lands in Texas, along toward the
end Of the thirties
HENRY BERGh, the late New York human
itarian,. was a lawyer and drew his own VIII.
Each of the two codicils were witnessed by
single witness, and was therefore invalid, as
the law requires two witnesses.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, the woman
suffragist, is still a noticeably fine looking
strong, intelligent face. She avows herself
as enthusiastically enlisted in the woman
suffrage campaign as ever
JOAQUIN MILLER is living at present in a
little redwood house, about twelve feet high
by something like thirty feet in length,
perched away up on the side Of a naked and
rocky mountain near Oakland, Cal, at
height Of several hundred feet above the
yea.
UNITED STATES SENATOR PALMER has a
lake on his Michigan farm stocked with carp,
and wishes he hadn't. He calls them the
''hog Of the sea-" because they wallow and
burrow in the mud and keep the water con-
tinually dirty. He has tried to seine them
out, but he cannot do so.
IT is said that the first work Governor
David B. Hill ever did outside of his school
ing was to sell apples on the trains that
passed through Havana, N. Y, his birth.
place From the money this acquired he
bought al his schoolbooks, and what was left
he saved and gave to his mother.
GUZArAN BLASCo, who at the present time
is the prominent figure in Venezuela, is de-
scribea as handsome man of venerable ap-
pearance, who possesses great ability, un-
bounded ambition, and inordinate conceit.
He is enormously wealthy, and gave $500, 900
to his daughter on her marriage to French
nobleman
GORDON TAYLOR HUGHES, aged seventeen,
son of the American Consul at Birmingham,
England, has won a scholarship at Cam
bridge valued at $4,000. Young Hughes won
over fifty-two competitors. although he was
30 sick during tho four days examination
that he was obliged to dictate his answers to
stenographer.