The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
ANNA DICKINSON is fortY.si1.

ANNA DICKINSON is forty-Sl4.
LEO XIII, the Pope, is seventy-eight
SECRETARY BAYARD has strong bentfor
farming.
FERDINAND DE LEssEPs was born Novem-
Der II, 1905
VIcE-PREs1pEN1-ELEcT MORTON is u Con-
gregationali,t
GLADSTONE has just celebrated his seventy
ninth birthday.
BISMARCK Gladstone and Disraeli were
all born on Friday.
JOHN BRIGHT, the English statesman, ls
gradually recovering.
Hon. CHAuNcEY NJ. DEpEw carries life
insurance of S5LO,U00.
PREs1DENT-ELEcT HARRISON has taken out
life insurance policy.
KUANG-HsU, the young Emperor OF China,
has thirty cooks and as many doctors III MS
household.
Mr.. SIX, the Corean representative at
Washington, plays the banjo with consum-
mate skill.
ALPHoNsE DAUDET, the French novelist
is nearly sixty years OF age, but does noe
look it by at least ten years.
THERE are five Grand Dukes Nicholas,
three Grand Dukes Michael and two Grand
Dukes Alexis Sergius, George, Alexander
and Constantine.
THE humorsts of Congress are Allen. Of
Mlssissippi; Talsney, Of Michigan; William
L. Mason, of Limos, and William G. Laid
law, of New York.
VICTORIA Woodruff has purchased q
house in france for S4U0, ,0UO, IN which she
hopes to found an institution Tor tie free
education of women.
The only two members OF the Congress
of 1859 now living are II. n. Watterson
father Of Henry Watterson, and P. +.
Thomas, of Maryland.
IT is said that the Sultan OF Turkey aspires
to literary career,und has ordered the poet
laureate OF the Empire to af1ix the royal sig
nature to bis poems hereafter.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, editor Of HaT-
per'S Weekly, is laid up with a lameness
caused by water on the knee The trouble
ing tennis last summer.
OSMAN DfGNA is Frenchnan, or of
French descent, formerly merchant ut Sua-
kin. His name was Vinet before he abjured
it and his religion to marry one of the late
Mahdi'S numerous daughters.
The latest story about Henry NJ. Stanley
is that he is enamored Of charming PhIla-
delphia widow, and that her GOODNESS is OF
such phenomenal degree that it has driven
him again TO the burning lands of Africa
HADJI SULLIVAN SABA, of Constantinople,
who died the other day, was ninety-eght
years of age when he took his last wife, and
lived to be 49, He had sixty sons and ninG
daughters and seven wives, and survived
them all.
The senior lady among the wives OF the
justices OF the Supreme Court is Mrs Miller,
whose social experiences in Washington ex-
tend hack to 1S62. She is of English parent.
age, her father having been q Baptist min
lister in Bristol
GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, the historian Of
the African race in America, has recently
returned from Europe laden with the fruits
of long search through the libraries of the
Old World tor matter pertaining to Tous-
slant rUuverture, the San DOMINICAN hero.
JAMES A. STEWART, the newly elected
mayor OF Griffin, Ga, is one of the youngest
mayors on record, his twenty-second birth
day having been celebrated in August last
He is the son of Congressman j. D. Stewart,
who was greatly surprised when he heard Of
his toy's election.
JOHN WANAMAKER, the millionaire mer-
chant prince of Philadelphia, has a deep
seated objection to sitting for portrait He
has repeatedly declined overtures Of his
family and friends who are anxious to secure
a counterfeit presentmant, and up to the
present time it is not known that his features
have been transferred to paper in any regu-
lar manner.