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

"OU1pA" has become religious.
The Princess of Metternich is her husbands
niece.
DE LEssEPs is referred to as the Duke OF
Suez.n
PHIL. ARMOUR owns the finest paintings In
the West.
MRS. MAcKAY and ex-Queen Isabella OF
Spain are great friends.
II. RIDER HAGGARD has been shipwrecked
while making a trip to Iceland.
JUSTICE GRAY is six feet five inches in
height and weighs nearly three hundred
pounds.
The Emperor of Austria has but one pas
sion, grouse shooting, and that he lndulges
in sparingly.
The imported Guernsey cattle of the Hon.
Levi P. Morton took eight prizes at the Buff
falo On. ~ fair.
LOUIS DE GEER, the eminent Swedish
statesman, is seventy years old, and has re-
tiT,d from public life.
MISS HATTIE BLAINE, daughter OF the
Maine statesman, has pink cheeks a fair
complexion and nut-brown hair.
LORD DuFFERIN, Viceroy of India, Is now
dependent upon an amannensis owing to the
tendons Of his hands having contracted
SENATOR BUTLER, of South Carolina, de-
lights in athletic sports, and one would
hardly suspect him Of having an artificial
leg.
CURTIS the Presidential candidate Of the
American party, is the most wealthy OF any
Of his competitors. He is set down at s., 00O,-
O00.
SIP ARTHUR SULLIVAN, the composer, IL
short and stout, with low forehead, short,
curly hair, black eyes, and square, bulldog
chin.
Ex-Governor LONG, of Massachusetts,,
has amused himself by translating Greek
classics as a relaxation from his more serious
occupation.
SARAH BERNHARDT, the actress, is quoted
as telling friend that she intends the scene
Of her own death to be something startling
and striking,
Mrs. CARRIE B. KILGoRE is the only
woman lawyer in Philadelphia, and is re-
garded as one of the ablest members of the
bar i'll that city.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, James G. Blaine,
Speaker Carlisle, Senator ingalls,, Warner
Miller and "Sunset" Cox began their careers
as school teachers.
FORTY years ago Professor Blackie made
VOW that he would visit some new district Of
Scotland every year, and he says he has
conscientiously kept it.
MARY GARRETT, Robert CARROTS sister,
manages the Garrett interests in the Balti-
more and Ohio road. She was trained by
her father, and is said to be quite equal to
her task.
IT is said that Canon Siddon, one of the
ablest men in the Church Of England, has
never been made bishop because on one
occasion when he preached before the Queen
he addressed her Majesty as plain madam. "
Ex-Governor KNOTT, of Kentucky, has
not read book that has been published
| within the last fifteen years He reads the
newspapers only when he cannot avoid it
| He says that the old books are good enough
| for him.
On learning that at the funeral ceremony
of Frederick III. the New Emperor had &C
corded to only one person grasp of the hand,
that person being Waldersee, Bismarck is re-
ported to have exclaimed: II shall amputate
that hand"
1T is said that Canon Siddon, one Of the
| ablest men in the Church Of England, has
never been made a bishop because on one
occasion when he preached before the Queen
he addressed her Majesty as plain madam. "
EX-GOVERNOR KNOTT, Of Kentucky, has
not read book that has been published
within the last fifteen years. He reads the
newspapers only when he cannot avoid it.
He says that the old books are good enough
| for him
FRANK MCGURRIN, Of Chicago. the cham.
| pion type-write Of the wor d, breaks his
own record with 5SS words In five minntes.