The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-21
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Car will soon visit the Kaiser.
IT costs the Prince Of Wales exactly $500
for the cigars he smokes in $50 days.
Ex-PREsIDENT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IS
ranked among the milionaires OF this
country.
MRS. HARRISON, wife Of the President,
and party were taken on coaching "Trip In
Massachusetts,.
THE Duke of Hamilton is said to draw
S150, 900 per annum from his tenan1ry IN the
island of Arran.
A BROTHER of Congressman Doliver, and
a very young man, has recently been selected
to be the President Of the University OF
Utah.
The Duke Of Edinburgh is the very pic
ture of an athlete. He is over six foot in
height, broad shouldered, strong limbed and
as active as a cat.
THE colony of Southerners living IN Lon
don have decided that Joel Chandler Harris
r:Uncls Remus'1 is the most meritorious
author in the South.
RUYARD K1PLING's age is definitely fixed
by the statement that he was born in Bonn
bay in Christmas week, 1865, and Is there
fore in his twenty-si1th year.
DR.. RUTH, the handsome surgeon who
has ruled Washington society TOR SO many
wears and broken no end of susceptible
hearts, is seriously i'll at Carlsbad.
FREDERICK K. R1NDGE, Of Cambridge,
Mass. has within the last three years
given to charitable, religious, and munich
nal institutions more than three million
dollars.
HENRY IRVING is the most scholarly look
ing of all living actors. He is as mucn lnte-
rior to Booth as an actor as he Is superior 10
him as manager and master OF stagecrstS.
The chief fsult of Irvings acting is too lttIe
nature and too much art.
THE Pops is said to speak better English
than many Englishmen and Americans. de
is particularly fond Of the tongue, ana uses
it In preference to French, the language OF
the Papal Court when receiving English or
American visitors. The Pope ls also HAS
ter of the German language.
IT is a fact not generally known that
uDeacon" s. V. White, whose recent failure
created such a sensation in Wall street., IS a
Southern man by birth, having been born IN
Chatham County, N. c., in 1881. Mr.. nite
has been for several years member OF 6ne
Southern Society, but was rarely seen tnere'
JOHN RUsK1N has made record as ny
draulic engineer by solving for the lnnaol'
tants of Fixing, small town In Sussex,
Fngland the problem of obtaining on ade-
quate supply OF drinking water. as an evi'
dence of their gratitude, the people nave y;
erected tablet "to the glory OF God and In
honor of John Ruskin."
LIEUTENANT BRANT, recent visitor IN
San Francisco, is noted as being the son,ln-
law Of King Masinia. who rules over the
black men of the Umbongrato nation, IN N
Central Africa His wife is well'formeo
conner-colored damsel with regular features.
perfect tssth and thin lips. She wears Eu'
ropean attire and is rather pretty. Lleuten-
ant Brant was in the British service When
he married the princess six years ago.
OLD man Adams, who founded the Adams
.EInress Company' was as O lad stable
helper and bartender in Boston. An old lady
who took pity on the destitute si1-Year-old
adrift in the world got him place in gro
Gerry. The whirligig of time has so Drougnc
things around, as the story goes, that the
daughter of that very old lady is now said
to owe much Of the comforts OF her life to
Waldo Adams the son Of the friendless boy.