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

Ben Butler has entered his red year.
M. De L,sseps will be 81 years old on tht
l9,h Of tnis month.
John Tyndall, father OF the famous so;en
tist was a carpenter by trade.
The Khan of Khiva intends to make tour
Oh Europe, beginning with Russia.
Anna Katherine Gre,n's now novel was
dashed or almost without stopping.
Eu .ene Field IL collactiny his DO m, in to a
volume. to be published by himself.
Mrs. Shawbos ozis, wife OF tn chief Of tn j.,
Chippewa Indians. is over I'D years old.
King Luis of PortuSa gave the copyrights
OF his literary works to charitable institu.
tions
Elwin Arnold, author OF Light Of ASH"
never sat for his photograph until quito re-
Gently.
Mrs. Sarah Chaplin lockwood, of Cort.
land. has reached tho remarkable age of l04
Years. ------------.
Rose Hartwick Thorp, wrote "Curfew
Must Not Ring Tonight when she was
under H. She is now 3J.
Louise Chindler Moulton was an on'y
ch,ld, and amused herself in makiug..up stories
and telling them to herself.
Mis-, Frances Willard wants to prohibit
smoking in postofh ,es and other places con-
trolled by the government
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett Is slowly
recovering from her recent acci lent. She Is
not yet allowed to sse visitors.
Lieutenant. Colounl Basil j ackson who dio
recently In HerefordShire, was ono OF tho last
four survivors in England OF the battle o.
Waterloo. He hal reached tho ago of o.
years.
The King Of Bavaria smokes 100 cigarettes
every day and Is SO fond of seeing hlaz,, that
each t'ms he lights n cigarette lie sets or
box Of matches just for the fun of sceini,
them burn.
1he Oldest living Yale alumni, is j. ID.
Wckham, ID. D., of Manchester, VI. Ho
gradu sted in 1917, ths sam, year that tho
Hon. George Bincroft, tho dest Harvard
n!unnus, graduated.
hsnry George is .hisasss Palaad adRfsafaa
aud an extensive, but peculiar knowledg, OF
the law as by statute established. He is
irst.rnte orator of tho open air kind with no
false modes y, and keeps his right hand So
cureiy buttouod up In the breast vi his Prince
Albert.
Baroness Won Glumcr, who was in her youth
Miss Frances Bartlett, dauy hter Of Unit!d
States Naval Commander Bartlett, aud mar.
ried q wealthy Cuban planter, who died years
ago, now lives with her second husband near
tho City OF Mexico, and writes in ono of tho
Loading dlily pap RS ~ lie Mexican capital
She II the heroine OF Edmund G. Stedinun's
poem Of 1.-THE Diamond Wedding"
W. p. Edison, an e!der brother OF the great
inventor, lives u few miles from Port Huron,
Mich. He was born in milan, Ohio, fifty
ei hit years ag,, and went TO Port Huron la
1854. He was actively identified with the or
gan zAtion OF the street railway system aud
was superintendent OF the road for many
years. He has also been interested in vessel
aud stea mboLt property there.
One OF the three American sculptors who
received honora bic mention at the Paris Ex-
position this year was Miss Theo Alic, Rug.
giles, daughter of Mr.. i. w. Ruggies, OF
Brockline, Mass. Miss Rusglcs is Cnl y
Eighteen years Of age. She painted at tho
age OF elcven, began to take lessons in mod
cling at the ago of fifteen. and was admitted
to the Paris Salon of 1888 at tho age of sew.
entesn.
Joe jefferson is a III 'dium-siz ii, slim built
man with smiling blue eyes and the mos
warming Of manners His face beams with
good nature, but does not betray the q years
belonging to 1t. He also lives in his work
yet he believes in the virtues Of r,st and
takes a two hours nap every afternoon. lie
en- only do one thing ut n time Int hs can
do that thing better than most men; and in
| his leisure moments he tr'h with water
color painting and salmon fishing