The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

BISMARCK is threatened with paralysis
GEORGE GOULD is very fond Of bicycle
riding.
GEoGE W. CABLE, the novelist, has si1
children.
CARDINAL NEWMAN plays the violin e1
quisitely.
JOAQUIN MtLLER's real name is Cincinna-
ties Hiner.
ADMIRAL DAVID PORTER is writing an
other novel.
GENERAL HARRISON always begins the
day with family prayers.
UNITED STATES SENATOR QUAY has been
on fishing trip in Florida.
PRINCE ALERT VIcToa of Wales is to
visit the Car OF Russia in the spring.
REPREsENTATIvE CANNON, Of Illinois, Is
the greatest letter. writer in Congress.
QUEEN E1cToLIA has just e'ebrated the
forty-ninth anniversary of her wedding.
JAY GoULD's appearance has greatly
changed of late, ami he is becoming rapidly
old and infirm.
JOHN BRIGHT. who is gradually recovering
from q serious illness, has an inordInate
passion for smoking.
JAMES G. BLAINE has secured the old
Seward house in Washington Oh ten years
lease at S.iUu rental.
CHARLIE; B. HOLMES, of Chicago IS be.
lieved to control more street car lines AMI
miles than anybody else.
ALTHOUGH worth s15,OOo,OO0. Phil
Armour, the Chicago pork packer, works at
his d,s; thirtt en- hours daily.
ALTHOUGH Mrs. Blaine has turned sixty in
years, she is remarkably well preserved and
does not look to be more than forty.
A. T..
millionaire, is said to own all the American
patents for the sot devices for nickels
NJ JACQUES, the unsuccessful candidate in
Paris against Boulanger, estimates that his
election expenses amounted to SiO0, ,00o.
SENATOR PALMER proves that man and
Senator may also have strange pets by
keeping tame coon in his dining-room.
DR.. MARY WALKER, the eccentric advo.
cate of the Bloomer costume, has gone into
journalism, and is officially connected with
the Washington Post.
HAROLD MARSH SEwALL, our Consul
General to Samoa, is q man about thirty
years of age. who was graduated at Harvard
and later ut the Harvard Law School.
GHooLY KHAN, the Persian Minister at
Washingtt n, recently appeared at q recep-
tion wearing white cotton gloves with the
ends snugIy confined to his wrists by ruDcer
bands.
JESSE D. ABRAMS, the pewly appointed
Comptroller of the Currency, is a native Of
Virginia, Tut for many years hos lived in
Washing ton, where for time he was instruc-
tor in private educationa! institute.
SENATOR kENNA, of West Virginia, Is
famed all through his State as hunter apd
sportsman. He IS passionately lona Of gun
ming and angling, aud keeps an assortment
otau sisaa I,s-sfro 81 frorting paraphernalia-
PITCHER SrAGG, of Yale, will not play ball
next season unless the success OF his college
depends upon his services as twirler. If he
uoss not pitch he will preach. In either case
his delivery will be an important factor.
THE new heir Of the Austrian Emperor,
b stiles being descendant Of the Caesars,
will he King Of nine countries, wear eight
cen titles Us Duke, one us Archduke, two as
Grand luke. four as Margrare and so en- to
TIE total Iunlter of fifty-four.
Ex-PREsIDENT WooLsEY, of Yale, al
though nearly four score and ten years OF
age, makes trip to the New Haven Conn.,
ostoifice daily, Lever varying a minute in
the time Of his going and passing he City
Hall just as the CLOCK strikes y. ~.