The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-03
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SENATOR EDMUNDs is mighty fRhsr-
man."
Miss BRADDoN is fifty years old aad has
written fifty stories.
TIE fortune left by the late Charles
Crocker is estimated at SS5, 600, COO.
The Empress Of japan is hard student of
German, Russian. French and Italian.
PRINCE BISMARCK is seriously out of health
and suffers severely in mind and body.
A PORTRAIT has been painted OF the baby
King Of Spain mounted on n rocking horse.
SENATOR CULLoM. Of Illinois, was school
teacher ten years before the outbreak OF the
war.
MARIE the exiled Queen of Naples, lives
the year round in Paris in hired apartments
on third floor.
LORD COLIN CAMPBELL proposes to 20 to
Bombay and practice law to retrieve his for
tune and good name.
THE Crown Prince of Italy is credited with
being the best amateur photographer in his
part of the Continent.
IT is asserted that the enthusiasm OF The
present Emperor Of Germany regarding
Wagner's music is wholly political.
QUEEN VICTORIA is becoming decidedly
portly. 1t is said that she has gained greatly
in flesh since the opening Of the season
ElCu6SG ClUlISu - CduoOt ~
Davis. who has grown from poor New
England lad to be millionaire twenty times
over.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN is is said to be
about to become the head of a new national
banking house in Chicago with capital OF
5000, 900.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR is as fond OF the
turf as his father, the Prince Of Wales. lie
is expected to make sensation on the track
before long.
THE theatre at Buenos Ayres has been
adorned with the inscription that Adelna
Patti, the greatest lyric artist in the world,
has sung within its walls.
CHARLES F. A HINRIcHs, of New York,
whose fortune is rated at anywhere from
$l,O00, 900 to S5,O0O,000, was porter in
china store not many years ago.
Mr.. MOODY makes his home at Mortified,
Mass, where his mother, nov eighty-three,
still lives, and where he has his co-worker,
Ira D. Sankey, for a near nsighbor.
NJ. PASTEURs fame as the curer of ny.
drophobia has brought him so much work
that he rarely gets an hour for personal
pleasure or rest He is credited, too, with
rapid rise in wealth.
TWENTY years ago Josiah P. Griswold left
Madison. Conn, with only $3.50 in his pos
session. He returned to that place recently
in a private car. He now lives in Topeka,
Kan, and is very wealthy.
PRINCESS LETITIA, who is to wed the Due
d'Aosta, speaks seven languages, ls good
musician. and clever painter. She resem'
bles her father, and Is said to be every inch
a Bonaparte in type and character.
JUSTICE MILLER, Of the United States Su.
prenie Court, says that after deducting the
expenses of travelling over his circuit, he has
inst about enough of his salary left to pay
the expenses Of living in Washington during
the sessions Of the court.
SENATOR INGALLS,, while presiding over
the Senate, makes use Of the old-fashioned
time glass to measure the 6ve-minute speech
es of the national orators. A Senator begin
ming his speech with the glass full Of sand,
has to stop when the bulb is empty.
ZUKERToRT, the great chess player, who
died the other day at the Charing Cross Hos:
pital, in London. could play twelve gnmes OF
chess blindfolded, and win them all, against
ordinary players. He had the reputation OF
being the most brilliant chess player OF
modern times