The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-18
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

NJ RS. ROSE TERRY COOKE, is gradually re-
gaining her health.
Gov. TOoLE, of Montana, ii is announced,
Is to wed daughter of General Rosecrans,.
PROFESSOR JAMES RUSSELL. LOWELL is
not yet well enough to resume literary work.
REV. HUGH PRICE IfuGHEs, the London
scnsationalist preacher, will visit Boston this
year.
u; RIDER HAGGARD has disappeared from
public view. Some say he is in Scotland, and
others that he is i'm the Orient.
THE SHAH of Persia has sent to Germany
for engineers and workman to introduce gas
| light into the "Land of the Sun"
THE PRINCESS OF WALES takes n lively
interest in hammered brasswork, M art which
Is taught at her school in Sandringham.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY's book, when il ap.
pears, will he published in French, German,
Italian, Czech, Morse, Spanish and English.
ANNIE BEsANT, the socialist aud thcoSo-
phist, is tall, thin and sad of viSay". She
married brother of Walter Bcsant, the
novelist.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is a hca,ty eater Tux.
ing four meals Il day, and enjoying such pie
beIan dishes as ham and eggs and hot sausagrs
| and beer.
JOHN NJ. SEARS is the largest indi vidual
taxpayer in Boston. He pays $50,MN on
$4,000 worth of real estate and personal
estate of $4,000.
| y. Y, " ~,
| proposes to build a corn palace at the Edin.
burg International Exposition, which will H."
held this Summer.
| SARAH BERNHARDT'S pet tiger, of which
American hotel keepers and walters have
| very unpleasant rccOllcctions died recently
of la grippe, AT the Jardin dcs Plants, Paris.
SENATOR PLUMB was an editor before he
| went into the railroad business and became II
| millionaire. lie is tall and rawboncd wears
goatcc and Souch hat, and owns up 10 -
| years.
| Mrs. CRooK,w no is completely prostratcd
| since the sudden death of her husband, Gen.
| Gcorg" Crook, is quietly resting AT Oak land,
permanent residence.
PROF.. MAX MULLER, the eminent Oricnta.
Inst and Phiiologist, went 10 England without
knowing single word of English. Although
! mere youth he was deeply vcrscd in Sun
/ scrit, Hebrew and Arabic.
| PROFESSOR TYSDALL has erected unsighi
| ly screens of poles covered with dead heath on
! ms grounds to prevent some people who have
| built houses within field-glass range of his
| residence from seeing him.
YAM PHoU LEE, the Chinaman who gradu-
ated at Yale College. and soon aftcrward mar.
| ried New Haven girl, recently went to san
| Francisco, but did not like his surroundings
! there, and is back in New Haven.
| PHIL ARMOUR, while butthcr's assistant
1 "
| Tilted him for wagon driver. The million.
| airc recently inquired concerning her, and
| found that she is II matron with a large family
and her husband is still a wagon driver.
PRESIDENT ATHERToN of the Pennsyl.
vania State College, is in the South under
commission from the United States Depart
| ment of Agriculture, making a tour of inspcc'
| ton of the operations of some of the expert
ment stations in that section.
Prince EUGENE of Sweden has passed two
| years in Paris as an amateur artist, having
| studied under VI. Henri Gcrvcx. The King
| of Sweden has just conferred upon NJ. Gcrv"N
| the Cross Of Chevalier of the order of -
Olaf II is said that Prince Eugene has CON
siderable talent.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has always been more
! scrupulous in his attentions to the humber
classes than to the nobility and wealthy
Once, when Prime Minister, he called per-
| sonally on a tradesman one Sunday morning
to deliver a ticket for admission to the House
of Commons, which had been requested.
FERDINAND DE LESsEPs leans heavily
forward as he walks, and his hair is white as
Stacked lime, vet he still retains a buoyant
flow of animal spirits, and his hand writing i,
! anything but shaky. He still affects rcccp
tions with vengeance and personally con
duets n voluminous correspondence. lie is
| Justly proud of his thirteen "chidrcn" VIII,
range in years from / 10 ~. He is himself -