The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-06-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE Prince OF Wales suffers from insomnia.
GLADSTONE was once a squatter in Aus
tralia-
PIERRE LoR1LLARD is crack shot with
pistol.
THE Ameer Of Afghanistan will visit Eng
land this summer.
E1-PREsIDENT HAYES dramatized Scott's
LADY Of the Lake" when a boy Of ton.
JUDGE KELLEY, the Father Of the House."
was a jeweler before turned his attention to
politics
JOHN @. WHITTIER, the poet, has a linger-
ing fondness for the shoemaking trade, which
he learned when boy.
THE Queen Of Denmark is intensely deaf,
but fond Of music, and has big and power
full organ that she can hear.
BARON DE HEN, one Of the Chief Justices
of the Austrian Empire, has seventeen chill
dren, nine Of whom are girls.
CARDINAL HOWARD, who is hopelessly
insane, took to the Church after being
Tilted by beautiful Irish girl
QUEEN LOUISE, of Sweden, is threatened
with return of the cancerous trouble which
nearly took her life year ago
RUSSELL SAGE, the New York million
aire, once lost wallet containing 81, 900,
and clergyman found and restored it.
THE Prince of Wales, in the mere
number of miles Travelled, has probably
beaten most explorers, ancient and modern.
IT is estimated that President Cleveland
and Mrs Cleveland received invitations for
visits during the summer holidays at the
average rate of one minute.
THERE appears to be very little doubt in
New York about the Duke Of Marlborough
having set his heart upon marrying the beau
Il DO clary ,hn hoo
dot of $1,000, 900.
PRINCE VICTOR NAPOLEON, the heir to the
French Empire, is gradually being adopted
by the e1-Empress Eugenie. She has e1-
pressed desire that he should take up his
residence with her.
CLAUS SPREcKLEs, the Sugar King, is q
member of the highest nobility Of the Sand
which Islands. His title was given hi m by
the King in return for financial favorS and
is never used by Mr.. Spreckels.
Don PEDRO, Of Brazil, besides being wise
and liberal monarch, an accomplished musi-
clan and an experienced traveller, has beena
profound student Of languages, and is well
versed in Hebrew, Arabic and Sanscrit
AN unpretentious-lookin man with a
short, brown beard, derby hat and unfash-
ionable clothes is often seen walking briskly
up Broadway, New York. 1t is Ex-Governor
annual income of $4,000 in the metropolis as
attorney for several railroads
PRESIDENT SsELYE, Of Amherst College,
is gifted with remarkable memory. He is
able to greet by name every living graduate
of the college whom he has ever met, and
freshmen who have not been in college a
week are surprised to hear the President ad-
dress them by their first name
The Empress Victoria was the good gem
ius Of the German Emperor throughout his
illness. Every day she was in the kitchen to
see her husbands food properly prepared;
day and night she attended to every one of
the doctors orders. In moments of danger
and at operations she assisted like skilled
nurse, resolutely helping to move the bed.
The leading lady, by right Of official eti-
quette, among the wives Of the Associate Jus
tices Of the Supreme Court, Is Mrs. Eliza
Winters Miller, wife of Justice Samuel F.
Miller, Of Iowa. She is of English parentage,
her father having been . Baptist clergyman,
IN Bristol, England. She Is the second wife
Of Justice Miller, and was widow at the
tims Of hsr marriage to him.