The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-06
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Ben Butler has entered his 7od ve,r

Ben Butler has entered his 72d year.
=, NJ. De L,sseps will be S4 years old on the
l9.h OF this month.
| John Tyndall, father OF the famous sc;en.
tist. was carpenter by trade.
The Khan of Khiva intends to make tour
Oh Europe, beginning with Russia.
Anna Katherine Gre,n's new novel was
"asnei OH almost without stopping.
Eugene Field is collecting his poems in to a
volume, to be published by himself.
Mrs. Shawbos ozis wife OF III, chief of th
Chippewa Indians. is over I'D ysars old.
King Luis of Portu sal gave the copyrights
OF his literary works to charitable institu-
lions.
Elwin Arnold, author OF "Ligbt OF ASH. "
never sat for his photograph until quito re-
Gently.
Mrs. Sarah Chaplin Rockwood, of Cort.
land, has reached the remarkable age of lo4
years
Rose Harewick Thorp, wrote "Currew
Must Not Ring To.Nignt" when she was
under II. She is now 81.
Louise Chlndler Mouton was an on'y
child, and amused herself in makingup stories
and telling them to herself
Mis-, Frances Willard wants to probibit
smoking in postofh ;es and other places c,n-
trolled by the government
Mrs. Frances Hodgson burnett Is slowly
recovering from her recent acci lent She i
not yet allowed to see visitors.
Lieutenant Colouel Basil acks on who die
recently Iii HeTsfordShire, was one OF the last
tour survivors in England OF the battle o.
Waterloo. He had reached tho ago of 0t
years.
The King OF Bavaria smokes 100 c;gnrette
every day and Is so fond Of seeing hlaz,, that
each tine he lights q cigarette he sets or a
box OF matches just for the fun Of scein,,
them burn.
H.
Wickham. ID. D., OF Manchester, VT IIo
gradu ited in 1917, ths sam, year that the
lion. George Bincroft, tho o dest Harvard
a!umnus, graduated.
IN hsnry George is thisksst Rsla6Psaasd
and un extensive, but peculiar knowledp, of
the law AS by statute established. He is a
hrst-rate orator Of the opsn-lir kind with no
false modes y. and keeps his right hand So
cureiy buttoned up in the breast OF his Prince
Albert.
Baroness Won Glumer. who was in her youth
Miss Frances Bartlett, daushter of Unit ID
States Naval Commander Bartlett, and mar.
ried q wealthy Cuban planter, who died years
ago, now lives with her second husband near
tue City OF Mexico, and writes in one Of the
leading dIily pap:rs in the Mexican capital
She is the heroine Of Edmund Stedinan's
poem OF "The Diamond Wedding"
W. p. Edison, an e!der brother OF the great
inventor, lives few miles from Port Huron,
hiCu. iho was oOTh III Nian, onlO, nIty-
ei hit years ag }, and went TO Port Huron in
1854. He was actively identified with the or
gan zAtion OF the street railway system and
was superintendent OF the road for many
years. He has also been interested in vessel
aud steamboat property there.
One OF the three American sculptors who
received honorable mention at the Paris Ex-
position this year was Miss Tneo Alce Ryc-
giles, daughter OF Mr.. G. w. RuggIes, OF
Brockline, Mass. Miss Rugglcs is only
Eighteen years Of nge. She painted at the
age Of eleven, began to take lessons in mod
cling at the ago Of fifteen. and was admitted
to the Paris Salon of 1888 ut tho age of sew
entesn.
Joe Jefferson is m sdium-sz. ii, slim-b built
man with smiling blue eyes and the mo -
warming Of manners His face beams with
good nature, but does not betray the years
belonging toit He also lives in his work
yet he believes in the virtues of l., st and
takes a two hours nap every afternoon. He
can only do one thing at time, hut he can
do that thing better than most men; and in
his leisure moments he trifi 8 with water
color painting and salmon fishing