The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-29
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

INVENTOR EDISON expects TO go ABROAD
again in March.
Ex-EapERoR Dom PEDRO has received over
700 kilograms of sympathy.
SECRETARY BLAINE spends an hour or two
very day in literary work.
PRINCE BISMARCK, it is asserted, does not
expect to live through the yeai.
Rev. DIR. JOIN HALL, Of New York, is
paid $40, 900 a year by his church.
AMERICANS in London will give banquet
10 Stanley on his return from Africa.
r SECRETARY RUsK is acquiring a great
reputation in Washington as story-teller.
GENERAL B. F. Buffers eccentric attire
Is the subject of considerable gossip in Wash
ngton.
THE Pope is supposed to have an annual in
come of considerably over half a miillol
sterling.
B.P. SHILLABER, who is known to the pub.
ic as "Mrs. Partington," is seventJ-tive
years of age.
MINISTER LINCOLN has returned to London
rom Paris, where he visited his son, who has
seen seriously i'll.
GENERAL SPINNER, e1-Treasurer of the
United States, is now ninety years Of age
ind nearly blind.
THE only colored man in Congress is Rep
'eSentative Cheatham of the Second District
# North Carolina.
SENATOR INGALLS, has a great weakness
or red neckties and is rarely seen wearing
me of different color.
Gladstone is eighty years DID, but his
mind and body are in as fine condition as
when he was only three score.
The Emperor Francis Joseph is one of the
cost accomplished horsemen in Austria,
where good horss:nen abound.
ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY, of San Fran
cisco, has given $3.50, 900 to the Presbyterian
theological Seminary of California.
PHILIP ARMOUR, the rich Chicago pork
packer, began his fortune in California, where
ae went with the Argomuts to find gold.
SENATOR MORRILL, Of Vermont, first en-
ered Congress in 1854. and for over twenty
PEARS has been in the Senate. Heis seventy
line years of age.
BARON FAvA, the italian Minister to this
country, is dean Of the diplomatic corps,
which has been completely reconstructed
iurilg the last year.
JUICE GRESHAM, Of Chicago, says the
standard of excellence in the legal profession
s notas high as it was twenty Five years ago.
Too many lawyers 60 into politics is the rea-
,on.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, who is
tond of hunting, is obliged to use short gun
made especially for him. as he has the use Of
only one hand He uses his rifle as he would
Spistol.
SENATOR PETTIGREw went out to Dakota
Is labor er in the employ ofa United States
surveyor with few dollars of borrowed
money in his pocket. He is Vermont man
BY birth.
PoSTMAsTER-GENERAL WANAMAKER is an
sarly riser. He is always out Of bed by six
o'clock, and half an hour later he is at the
breakfast table. Thsn he reads the morning
papers and at eight reaches his desk.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is becoming noted
1t Washington as he was at Indianapolis,
:o1 ms fondnesS Tor quiet little walks about
The city unattended by any distinguishing
adjuncts that would indicate his official pre-
sminence.
ORION FaAzEE, the sculptor, whom The
late Editor Grady sent to New Orleans to pco
cure q death mask of Jefferson Davis for the
monument in Atlanta, did not see Mr.. Grady
again until he went to take mask of him.
Both masks are perfect.
COLONEL JAMES BELGER, who stand
next to General Sherman as the Oldest living
officer of the regular army, is spending tn
winter in Kansas City, Mo. Colonel .Beigel
Vas placed upon the retired lls5 ten year
sgo after serving forty-one years in tbs
lrmy.
M. PAsrEUR. the famous French scientist
Is in very precarious health. He has never
been able to regain his strength since the So
rious illness Of two years ago, and he has de
voted so much time and thought to the worl
If hisinstitute that he has had no chance +
recuperate.