The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
KING PoMARE, Of Tahiti, is dead.
LAY GOULD is afflicted with neuralgia.

KING PoMARE, Of Tahiti, is dead.
JAY GOULD is afflicted with neuralgia.
The Prince of Wales has mania for col
lecting masons' trowels.
GENERAL BOOTH, Of the Salvation Army,
has started on a tour around the world.
DOM PEDRO Is recovering from the serious
illness with which he has been suffering.
A RECEPTION and banquet were given to
ex-President Cleveland at Sandwich, Mass.
The Prince Of Naples is said to know more
about military matters than any prince In
Europe.
PROFESSOR KOCH resigned his pubic offices
to accept that Of Director Of the Institute OF
Infectious Diseases.
GENERAL ScHoFIELD, who was recently
married, will soon settle down in Washing.
ton in a cozy little home.
A GOOD part OF the town Of Falmouth,
England, is owned by Lord Kimberly, who,
in the matter of large real estate possessions,
is something like the Astors, OF this country.
THEY say that Philip D. Armour, the
Chicago pork packer, is the largest individual
commercial operator in the world. His
transactions last year reached the enormous
aggregate Of s63. 900.
HERBERT HEwE BANCROFT, who has
sarned fame with his history OF the Pacific
coast, began life as clerk in book store:
he now owns one Of the most valuable and
complete historical libraries in the world
LORD WoLsELEY, the famous English
General, is a small man, with slim, 1.-the
igure. His face is ruddy, his eyes blue, and
he wears dropping gray mustache. He Is
now ffty-eight, and bis hair has grown
white.
THE classmates Of the late Lieutenant @.
W. De Long, United States Navy, who
oerished in the Arctic. having secured the
necessary funds, are about having memorial
tablet placed in the Naval Academy Chapel
at Annapolis.
PRESIDENT D1Az, Of Mexico, is Of medium
oeigbt straight as an arrow, OF dignhed
bearing, and suggests unusual strength OF
character. He wears citizens Clothes and
thereby becomes conspicuous among the
many gaudy uniforms about him.
TIE Shah of Persia is an enthusiast with
the Kodak, and takes very good pictures
with It when he condescends to do so.
Wherever he goes he Is accompanied oy
court photographer, who takes views OF
everything that interests the King.
TIE Princess Alois Liechtenstein, the
beautiful wife Of the well-known Prince
Alois, has become totally blind. She Is at
present in Kissengen in the hope OF finding
some relief. The same misfortune has also
befallen Baron Won Pine, at one time Min
ister Of Commerce in Prussia.
A GENEVA dispatch says that Henry M.
Stanley, the African explorer, has met with
q serious accident. According to lnforma-
ton received at Geneva from Muerren, MI.
Stanley, while sojourning there with his
wife, fractured his left thigh bone by acci'
dentally slipping while mountain-climolng.
JOHN CLArL1N. the dry goods merchant,
is known In the Rocky Mountains as a man
who Stays grizzly every time he goes % out
there for months rest and sport. ELI.
Clafiin would never be taken for sports.
man. He looks more like the conventional
Sunday-school superintendent, but he is
fond Of adventure. He is said to have been
the first traveller to cross South America
from the Pacific to the Atlantic.