The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-03
PROMINENT>PEOPLE,
The King Of Holland is insane.

The King Of Holland is insane
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to be in eing
health.
AN attempt was made recently to assassin.
ate the Sultan Of Morocco.
The deposed Emperor of Brazil has asked
the Government to be allowed to return
home
The speaker who welcomed Stanley to
New York called him the 'tmost Ilustrious
living man."
MoLTKE's coat-of-arms is three white doves
on silver shield. Rather inappropriate for
battle-thinker.
MISS MARY ABELL, Of Baltimore Md,
daughter Of the founder Of the Baltimore
Sun, will become a nun.
q. G.. DULANEY, said to have been the
wealthiest man in Virginia, died in Welbourn,
London County, Va. few days ago.
THE Count of Paris has sent present Of
$4,000 to the Pope by his daughter, the
Princess Helene, who is on visit to Rome.
GovERNoR-ELEcr RUSSELL, Of Massa-
chusetts, will be the youngest chief magis.
trate that commonwealth ever had. His age
Is thirty-three.
Mrs. NJ. E. Howcorr, Of New Orleans, is
said to own more real estate than any other
Southern woman. She possesses nearly CO..
600 acres Of timber lands In Louisiana, Miss
issippi and Texas.
.t"HN D. RocKEFELLER, Of tho Standard
Oil Company, has lots of fun watching his
income grow. It Is said to be %, 100000 q
year, or 1854 an hour, night and day, every
day through the year.
ROBERT BURNS WILSON, the artist and
poet of Kentucky, Is native Of Virginia,
but tho greater part of his life has been spent
in the blue grass region. He is a good-look'
ing bachelor, popular IN society.
AUSTIN CoRB1S owns about q, 900 acres Of
wooded, and be Is turning it into a magnif.
cent game preserve. Moose, caribou, elk and
deer Of various kinds already been intro.
duced, and recently a consignment OF wild
boars arrived from Germany for the park.
ISAAC BLUxoME, one Of the most noted
men in California history, died at his home
in San Francisco recently Of heart disease.
He was the celebrated mo. SO" Secretary OF
the Vigilance Committee Of 1850, OF which
William T. Coleman was President. MIR.
Bluxome was born in New York City In
1928.
JOHN BRIsBEN WALKER, the Cosn,opoli-
tan's proprietor, Is several times . million.
aire, and made all his money mining and
ranching In Colorado. His wife Is the
daughter of the artist David d. Stother,
better known as Porte Crayon. They have
seven sons and no daughters and live in q big
place at Orange, N. ].
Ex-Governor LONG, Of Massachusetts,,
possesses the remarkable ability Of recollect-
Ing what he has written without reading it
over even by himself. It is said that during
his most animated speech he has in bis minds
eve vivid impression of his manuscript, 80
that he knows where every page and every
line ends, and even where there are inter-
ineations.
RICHARD WATSON GLIDER, editor Of the
Century, is thin and slight, with long, gray
hair piping, reedy voice, delicate features
and a manner of nervous modesty. Mr.: Gill
der's sanctum is the handsomestin New York.
It has an open fireplace, brass and irons, with
rugs, hangings draperies and pictures in the
highest style of art. It is full Of greens at
Christmas, of flowers at Easter. In 1t MI.
Glider is altogether charming.