The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-29
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Duke of Westminster's income is ST. SO
minute.
E. P. ROE, the novelist, had $4,000 insur-
ance on his life
LORD COLIN CAMPBELL is going to India to
try and practice law.
The Emperor of China has a toy railway
three miles long in his palace grounds.
DON MANUEL BARILLAN, President of
Guatemala, is a renowned shot with the
rife.
JUDGE GRAY, of the United States Su-
preme Court is an enthusiastic hunter and
fisher.
SENATOR HIscocK, of New York. reads
every new American novel as soon rs pub
Gshed
THE Archduke Joseph, of Hungary. is
compiling a dictionary Of the gypsy Ian
guage.
The King of Denmark will celebrate tie
twenty fifth anniversary Of his reign Novem-
ber Is.
The late Kaiser William, of Germany, will
have an equestrian statue in Stettin which
will cost SGO,OO.
LIEUTENANT T. J. CLAY, champion rifle
shot of the United States army, is a grand
son of Henry Clay.
KING KALAKAUA has the reputation Of be-
ing "dude." A prominent London tailor
makes all his clothes.
PRINCE LOUIS FERDINAND, Of Bavaria,
has received a diploma qualifying him to
practice as physician.
QUEEN VICTORIA will spend three weeks
In the autumn with her daughter, the Dow
ager Empress Victoria, at Baden.
ACTRESS MARY ANDsRsoNs half brother
has rancho in Colorado. and he Is said to be
| . Lo, 81 ,ut,n in
THERE is a rumor aflolt in England to the
effect that William E. Gladstone will enter
the House of Lords as the Earl of Flint.
1T was in the capacity of guardian to the
present Duke of Newcastle that Mr.. Glad
stone acquired his knowledge of woodcraft.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has informed Frau
Wagner that he considers it sacred duty to
further the performances Of Wagner's
operas.
PRINCE BISMARCK has given evidence that
be is still! skillful marksman. While prac-
ticing with a rifle at 120 yards, he hit the
bulls eye every time.
NINE. MUTsU. wife Of the japanese Min
lister in Washington, is petite and slender,
has dead black hair, clear olive complexion
and kindling black eyes.
The marriage of Miss Endicott, daughter
of the Secretary Of War, and Joseph Cham
DeTlln, UQ6 English bloeidt- OhAoaiioo ASooeA ,
will take place next January.
QUEEN NATALIE, of Servia, is but twenty
eight years old, and is still one of the most
beautiful and fascinating women in Europe
and most dangerous political intriguans.
THE Duke and Duchess Of Marlborough
will soon return to America in order to allow
the Dusc to 20 on a pro jected western shoot
ing trip. After that they will reside in
England.
ONE of Disraeli's favorite peacocks has re-
Gently d:ed, and Ralph Disraeii has had the
tail feathers made into fire screen and has
given it to Queen Victoria, much to her
qualification.
ADDISON CAMMACK, whose operations in
Wall street have brought him at least S6.000,-
600 during the past fifteen years, began life
! as messenger boy in the Office OF New
Orleans shipping drm.
THE youngest millionaire in Chicago is
Cyrus H. Mccormick, who is only twenty
nine and is at the head of the extensive
reaper manufactury founded by his father.
| He is unmarried and has fortune Of
81, 4,O0O,00l
THAT is a most picturesque friendship re-
| ported to exist between two milshipmen in
| the Italian navy, one OF whom is the thirteen.
year-old son of Amadeus. ex-King of Spain,
and the other the grandson Of Garibaldi, the
italian IiberatOr