The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-25
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

COLONEL NORTH. the nitrate king, ls an
Englishman.
MRS. HARRIET BEEcHER STowE's favorite
diet is bread and butter and pineapple.
EDWARD BURGESS, the noted yacht de-
sgner, Of Boston, is forty years Of age.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is not reader OF
books. But he keeps up with the news
papers.
WHENEVER Edison, the inventor, appeared
at the Paris Exposition, the band played
'Yankee Doodle"
KING HUMBERT, Of Italy, has bought
phonograph, by means Of which he CORE
sponds with Queen Marguerite.
MRS. PHILIP H. SHERIDAN and her chill
dren are living at the cottage in Nonquth
Mass, in which the General died.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, is living at
Whitbv, England. His friends deny current
rumors of his intention tomarry again.
GENERAL JOHN G. Fremont is now
seyenty-eight years old, and his friends say
he looks good for ten or fifteen years more.
QUEEN VICTORIA welcomed her imperial
grandson, young Kaiser William, by giving
him two real nice kisses-one on each cheek.
ARuMEE ABDALLAH, the probable success
sor of Hadjie Hassein Ghool Khan, Persian
Minister to this country, weighs 347 pounds
and is the fattest man in Persia.
IT is not generally known that MIR. Glad.
stone has only four fingers on his left hand.
The index finger was shot off, forty-seven
years ago, by an accident In the hunung
field.
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, ex-Premier OF
Canada, is in delicate health. Mr. Mac.
kenzie was offered the doubtful honor OF
knighthood ten years ago, and re1useo H.
He Is a bricklayer by trade.
CHARLES DICKENS, the reader, has long
novel in manuscript which he has never had y:
| the courage to publish. He realizes that his
work would be compared with his fathers
and he does not dare to brave the test
Mrs. DELLA STEWART PARNELL, the
| mother of the man who has made the
amelioration of the condition Of the Irish race
his life work, is slowly dying OF old age and
| its attending in6rmities in her home at
Bordentown, New Jersey.
IRA D. SANKEY, the Gospel singer, who
| has been Evangelist Moody's companion In
much of his work in this country and Great
Britain, has bought farm in Suffolk County,
on Long Island, and will probably spend the
remainder of his life there.
F. c. BURNARD, the present editor OF
London Punch, was, in early life, member
of a Catholic ecclesiastical esta bhshment at
Bayswater, near London. His Intention was
| to become priest, and he was even admitted
to tonsure and minor orders
OLD JOHN HANKS, the boyhood friend
and distant relative Of Abraham Lincoln,
| has died at his farm, near Decatur, aged
lightweight years. It was on his farm, and
While in the employ of Hanks, that Lincoln
became noted as a rail-splitter, and it was
old John Hanks who, in 1860, introduced the
| rail-splitting feature into the excitement OF
the Lincoln campaign, furnishing rails from
his farm split by Lincoln.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER and Judge Ear-
Ian are almost always together, and are
daily seen walking to and from the Capitol lll IN
Washington. Judge Field and Judge Bradley
are close friends, and are at each others
house frequently. Judge Blatchford and
Judge Lamar walk or drive in com company
every pleasant afternoon. Judge Miller IN
his walks or drives 'goes it alone, :" but he is
the friend of every Justice, and his society is
gladly welcomed by any of them at all
! times.