The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-02-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN is just seventy
years old.
SENATOR HAwLEY practices OH the violin
every day.
Mr.. GLADSTONE keeps six private secre-
taries at work.
SPANS little King has an income Of one
million dollars year.
THE White House will soon contain por-
trait Of Grover Cleveland.
CHIEF JUSTICE CoRL1ss, Of North Dakota,
is only thirty-one years of age.
SENATOR GoRMAN is an expert on baseball,
and was formerly noted amateur player.
In June next King Leopold's jubilee will
be appropriately celebrated at Liege, Bel
gium.
CARDINAL NEWMAN is eighty-eight years
old, but still clear-headed and physically spry
and active.
PosTMAsTEE-G GENERAL WANAMAKER never
permits wine to be served at any Of his en-
tertainments.
JAMES WHISTLER, London's eccentric
American painter, is scomining over for visit
in the spring.
CALVIN S. BRIcE, Ohios new Senator, will
occupy James Gordon BENEFITS villa at New
port next season.
PRINCE BIsMARcK's friends are appreheu-
sive again about his health, which is said to
be much impaired.
SENATOR INGALLsS daily luncheon at the
Senate restaurant consists of nine oysters
fresh from the shells.
DIR. MCCosH, ex-President Of Princeton,
didn't stop teaching until he had educated
thirty-seven college Presidents.
ROBERT J. BURDErTE, the humorist, is q
little man who talks in sharp, quick way.
He is tired of humorous writing.
AMONG the many messages Of sympathy
received by Secretary Tracy were cablegrams
from Queen Victoria and the King OF Italy.
PRINCE FERDINAND, of Bulgaria, will. &C.
cording to London journal, shortly wed
IAN immensely wealthy American Catho'
lic."
The richest man in Alabama is H. F. De
Bordeleban, Birmingham iron manutac-
turer, who is supposed to be worth about
IS, 100000.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES always retires
at the same hour, eats dinner in the middle
of the day and walks at least two miles every
twenty-four hours.
MONEY is being raised for the erection OF
q monumental statue Of Commodore Wander
bilt on the campus of Vanderbilt university,
at Nashville, Tenn.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER has full
beard, dresses better than most authors ana
lives at Hartford, between Mark Twain and
Harriet Beecher Stowe
PRINCE ARTHUR, Duke of Connausht, and
his wife will have receptions IN every cana
dian city and town they visit during tnen
tour through the Dominion.
BUFFALO BILL is quoted as saying that ne
does not wonder that Christopher columbus
wanted to get away from SPAN, as he hel'
very much thnt way himself.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON comes from an
old and formerly wealthy Southern tamlly.
At the outt reall of the war he had from
2OOo to 5000 slaves on his plantations.
THE Khan of Khiva and the Emin Of Box
hara are to make q tour through Europe
this wear but the Russian Government stipu-
lated that they ara not to visit England.
THE Euperor Of Russia has been in state
of insane panic, the result being that ne mas
sunk into tine deepest dependency, and con-
stantly insists that his end is approaching.
AsroSIsRMENT is expressed by many peo-
ple upon learning that Mr.. Blaine and Mr..
Randall never studied law. One began hls
career as merchant, and the other as aJour-
nalist.
THE first cash john D. Rockefeller, OF
Standard Oil Company fame, ever had was
twenty-five cent?, whic he earned by work.
ing for q farmer 80 that he might go to the
circus.