The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

DON PEDRO claims that he is still EN-
peror. But he viii remain away from Brazil.
JAY GOULD is passionately fond of flowers;
while his son George prefers postage stamp
collections.
The new Chinese Minister at Washington
is a recluse. and much more fond of his books
than of society.
LORD SALIsBERY, the British Premier. is
one of the best amateur tennis players in
fashionable London society.
THE poet Whittier spent his eighty second
birthday quietly and alone, IN accordance
with his request to his friends.
JEFFERSON DAVIS mustered Abraham
Lincoln into the service of the United States
in the Black Hawk war i'll 1881.
SPEAKER REED has had lots of fun cutting
out and pasting the alleged portraits of him
in the illustrated daily newspapers.
KING WILHELM, of Holland and the baby
Alfonso XIII. of Spain, are respectively the
oldest and youngest of European rulers.
Mr.. STR1CKBR1DGE, Of Maryland is the
youngest member of the House of Represen-
tatives, being only thirty-three years of age.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the Iron King, is short
built, healthy-looking, and four and fifty. He
is oppressively rich and correspondingly phil
anthropic.
EXPLORER STANLEY's most striking feature
is said to be his eye. His power over his
fellow creatures is in the directness and force
Of his glance.
KING HUMBERT. of Italy, has inhaled SO
many cigars that his bronchial tubes have
become affected. He now sucks camphor
instead Of tobacco smoke.
REPRESENTATIVE LESTER of Virginia, is
Baptist clergyman, the first to sit in the lower
.fC ~. r Ir-of Syoifh
of Brooklyn, held seat in that body.
EDWARD BURGESS, the famous designer of
yachts, recently remarked that degrees OF
longitude and latitude had been of more i'm
portance to him than college degrees.
HENRY W. GRADY, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution is arobust-looking, dark-haired
man of nine and thirty, doesn't look it, and
talks with an incesSant flow of animal spirits
GOVERNOR FORAKER, Of Ohio, is anxious
to take long rest before he begins the prac-
tice of law after his term of governorship
expires. He contenplates trip to Europe.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has curling gray
hair and weak tuft of chin whisker, and it
he were trife stouter and less frank OF
manner would PISS for Secretary Noble in
broad daylight.
Now that Browning is dead there is no
poet In England, except it be Swinburne, with
the gift of genius above his fellows, which
marks him as the natural successor of the
present poet laureate.
DR.. SARGENT, the professor of physical cul-
ture at Harvard, is distinctly opposed to too
much exercise. Those who have been the
most successful in heavy gymnastics are the
very ones, he says, who are subject to ner.
vous complaints.
JAMES CAMPBELL, of Philadelphia, seventy
six years old, is the survivor of President
Franklin Pierce's cabinet He was Post.
master General, and among other members
were Caleb Cushing, Jefferson Davis and
William L. Marcy.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCKER, OF Virginia.
was one Of the last members Of the House tc
draw in the seat lottery at the opening OF the
session, and great was his surprise. as well rs
delight, when, taking 1t, he discovered that
it was the seat his father, Mr.. J. Randolph
Tucker, first occupied when he was , mem'
Der o. that body.