The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
JAMES G.. BLAINE is sixty years old.

JAMES G. BLAINE is sixty years old.
BoULANGER is going to publish book.
Ou1DA has her name on twenty y-sevcn
novels.
QUEEN VICTORIA has saved sS,000,000 in
round numbers.
CONGRESSMAN K1LaoRE was once Justice
Of the Peace in Texas.
EVANGELIST SAM JONES has Made s20 600
in real estate within year.
THE President Of Uruguay lives over a
millinery store with his wife.
THE King Of Greece is the best tennis
player among the royalties Of Europe.
CHAUNcEY NJ. DEpEw's salary as Presi.
dent of the New York Central Railroad is
GENERAL E. BURD GRuBB, who has been
appointed Minister to Spain, is forty y-nine
years old.
Rose ELIZABETH CLEVELAND, sister of
the ex-President has gone abroad for an e1-
tended visit.
V1cE-PREsDENT MoRToN's herd Of Guern.
sey cattle carried OFF the prize at the New
York State Fair.
MAJOR WILLIAM g.. MOORE, Chief Of the
Washington police, was private secretary to
President Andrew johnson.
PRINCESS WnuELMINA, the future Queen
Of Holland, Is a fair-headed, slender, incon'
spicuous maid Of nine years.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has written
with the same pen for twenty-five years. II
is gold and in perfect condition.
GENERAL E. KIRBY SMITH, the President
Of Suwanee College, Tennessee, Is in New Or
leans undergoing treatment for cancer.
GOVERNOR TAYLOR, Of Tennessee, will re.
side In Chattanooga after the expiration Of
his term Of Office and resume the practice OF
law.
MRS. helen GOULD, Jay Gould's daugh-
ter, Is an accomplished botanist. She has the
rarest private collection Of orchids in tha
country.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE has a royalty OF
fifteen cents from each copy Of "Ben Hurh
that is printed. His usual income from ,,thii
source is between $4,000 and $1,000.
ROBERT LEWIS STEVENSON, the novelist,
has bought four hundred acres Of land on the
Island Of Upolu, in the Samoan group, and
proposes to make it his permanent home.
The favorite novelist Of the day among the
women of Paris Is Paul Bourget a compare.
lively new writer. Six years ago he waa
practically unknown, even to the people oi
the Latin quarter, where he lives.
THE heir apparent Of the japanese Empire
became Of legal age eleven years. on Novem'
Der 8, 1889, He was appointed to some hon
orary Office and given sword that has been
kept in the imperial family since 70l.
THE new Professor Of Greek in Hastings
College, Nebraska, is Miss Jane Graydon, q
girl OF only twenty -four. She not only knows
Greek, but is an accomplished tennis-playel
and is expert in other out-of-door games.
DAVID FULLER, one Of the clerks In the
Office Of the United States Consul General IN
Paris, a mulatto, has been connected with
the office for more than thirty years, and Is
said to be painter Of considerable talent.
GABRIELLE GREELEY, the great editors
daughter, has for some years led a very re
tired life at Chappaqua, N. Y. She Is still g
beautiful woman, though sorrow and care
have left their traces on her face and Sue /:
growing yisibly older.
TIE young Viscount Belgrave, grandson
of the Duke Of Westminster, If he lives to in
herit his patrimony. will be the richest man
in the world. By the time he attains his ma
iority his income will amount to between
$1O, 1000 and SEQ, 600 day.