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

Mrs ROSE TERRY COOKE, is gradually re-
gaining her health.
Gov. TooLE, of Montana, it 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
sensationalist preacher, will visit Boston this
year.
II; RIDER HAGGARD has disappeared from
public view. Some say he is in Scotland and
others that he is in the Orient.
THE SHAH of Persia has sent to Germany
for engineers and workman to introduce gas
light into the Gland of the SUM-"
THE PRINCESS OF WALES takes a lively
interest in hammered brasswork an art which
is taught at her school in Sandringham.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY'S book, when il ap-
pears will be published In French. German,
Italian, Czech, Morse, Spanish and English.
ANNIE BESANT, the socialist and theoso-
phist, is tall, thin and sad of vsayc She
married brother of Walter Besant, the
novelist.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is a hearty eater TAX
ing four meals day, and enjoying such pie
beian dishes as ham and eggs and hot sa,sagcs
and beer.
JOHN NJ. SEARS is the largest individual
taxpayer in Boston. He pays $5o,N0 on
SS6l7 600 worth of real estate and personal
estate of Sl25,OOO.
COLONEL G.. J. MURPHY, an American,
proposes to build 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 recollections died recently
OF la grippe, at the Jardin des Plants, Paris.
SENATOR PLUMB was an editor before he
went into the railroad business and became a
millionaire. He is tall and rawboned wears
goatee and slouch hat, and owns up TO IS
years.
Mrs: CRooK,w no is completely prostrated
since the sudden death of her husband, Gen.
George. Crook, is quietly resting at Oak land,
Nd, which she has determined to make her
permanent residence.
PROF.. MAX MULLER, the eminent Orcnta-
list and Philologist, went to England without
knowing single word of English. Although
mere youth he was deeply versed in San
scrit, Hebrew and Arabic.
PROFESSOR TYNDALL has erected insight
~ screens of poles covered with dead heath on
his grounds 70 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 afterward 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 butchers assistant
was in love with a handsome blonde, who
Tilted him for wagon driver. The million
aire recently inquired concerning her, and
| found that she is a matron with a large family
and her husband is still 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 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 an amateur artist, having
studied under NJ. Henri Gervex. The King
ofSweden has just conferred upon NJ. Gervex
| the Cross of Chevalier of the order of st
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 tradesman one Sunday morning
| to deliver ticket for admission to the Hous,
Of Commons, which had been requested.
| FERDINAND DE LEssEPs leans heavil,
forward as he walks, and his hair is white a,
Stacked lime, yet he still retains buoyan
| How of animal spirits, and his hand writing il
! anything but shaky. He still affects recep
| tions with a vengeance and personally con
ducts voluminous correspondence He j
| Justly proud of his thirteen "childrcn, !" win
range in years from 4 TO IS. He is himself 81