The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Az GOULD weighs 105 pounds.

JAY GOULD weighs 105 pounds.
BRET HARTE makes SIS. 600 year.
PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico, is sixty.
SECRETARY BLAINE weighs 1873 pounds.
HALFoRD, President Harrison's Private
Secretary, was newsboy.
SENATOR Villas owns one Of the largest
cranberry farms in Wisconsin.
Goss1Ps are bethrothing the Czarowitz Of
Russia and the Princess Marie Of Greece.
The late Sepator Hearst's fortune has
been appraised and found to be over g, 000,-
900.
The Dowager Countess Of Shrewsbury is
one Of the most prominent philanthropists
in England.
HENRY ". SLocUM is said to stand near
the head Of the roster Of surviving war gen.
erals Of the army.
WHEN ex-senator Spooner, Of Wisconsin,
was in Congress, he was the smallest man
there in point of physique.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, the younger, mas al
ready written eleven books and sevsn plays
although he is only thirty years old.
JOHN SHERMAN is the only remaining
United States Senator who sat in that body
during Hannibal Hamlin's term in its chair.
The new "Old Probs," Professor Mark ".
Harrington, Of Michigan University, Is
college graduate, an astronomer, and
writer on meteorology.
q. NJ. FLAGLER, of the Standard Oil Com
pany. travels daily from his house on Long
Island Sound to and from his business In
New York on a yacht that cost s2s0,OOO.
The oldest e1-Senators Of the United
States now living are James W. Bradbury,
Of Maine, and Alpheus Felch, Of Michigan,
who entered the Senate in December, 1S47.
SIR WILLIAM GoRDoN.CuMaISa, of bac-
caret notorlety. has been elected, unani-
mously, as honorary chief of the Highland
Association Of Illinois In the place Of the late
Sir John Macdonald.
CLAUS SPREcKELs, the Sugar King
has rosy face framed in full white beard
and luxurious snowy hair, and looks so much
like the conventional idea Of Santa Claus that
no one is surprised at his first name.
THE Duke Of Athol, the chieftain Of the
Murrays Of Scotland, adheres to the antique
kits OF the Highlands. Once year he gives
a ball, to which the chieftains Of all neigh
boring clans come clad in plaids and accom-
panied by their pipers.
Ex-PREsIDENT McCosH, of Princeton. now
past eighty years Of age, recently preached
to an audience OF 1000 people IN the new
Asbury Park auditorium. His voice, though
less powerful than in former years, reached
to and was distinctly heard in every quarter
Of the vast assembly.
SENATOR CALVIN BRIcE, Of Ohio, Is a
slim-built man OF middle height. with ten
dency to round. .shoulderness. he has pc
cuiar face. His complexion is dark, and he
has shock Of half-curiing and not closely
cropped brown hair, deep dark eyes, and
long moustache and pointed beard.
GENERAL MILES inspires respect apart
from his rank, among the soldiers Of the
Missouri Division Of the army by the fact
that he is an athlete, and particularly skill
full boxer. He may be found almost every
afternoon with the gloves on in the Athe-
naum gymnasium, in Chicago, snd tits pop
ular belief that he could knock out bis entire
command, taking them one at time. He
Is surprisingly quick and agile for his years
and keeps in active training.