The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-18
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

The King of Siam has taken to literature.
F. L. AMEs, of Boston, is rated at SOS, OOo,-
900.
JAY GouLD's daily income is said to be
about $500.
PRINCE GEORGE, of Wales, will open the
Jamaica exposition.
SWEEPING reductions in the Pope's house
hold expenses are TO made.
PROFESSOR KOCH takes horseback ride
at three o'clock every afternoon.
Lo'D SALISBURY, the English Premier, is
said 70 work fourteen hours day.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD gets 1000 for his
latest poem, THE Light of the World"
MIS. HoDGsoy BURNErr's income from
her books and plays amounts to over S25, 900
year.
TIE only daughter Of Senator voorhees,,
of Indiana, has Joined the Roman Catholic
Church.
QUEEN VICTORIA has done much to pro-
mote photography in England as she has al
ways been great collector of photographs.
CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON, tee inventor,
made in his will specific bequests Of s125, 900,
but it turns out that his estate does not ex-
ceed 100000.
TEE King of Sweden is heavily embar-
rassed in his personal finances, and has had
to borrow money from wealthy merchants
of Gottenberg.
The Right Hon. James Augustus Sim
clair, F. F. S., sixteenth Earl of Caithness
is dead He was born in 1927 and was for
many years banker in Aberdeen.
W. G.. DIsMUKEs the new President of the
Tennessee State Senate is thirty-Six years
nf 10 is 1,y- nd
served in the lower house last year.
Mr.. TALMAGE prides himself upon being
able to turn cut ar excellent sermon more
rapidly than most men can write letter.
Spurgeon is an equally quick composer.
JOHN FrTzRoY DE CoURcEY, Lord Kin
caCe, who recently died in England, was one
o. the two British noblemen entitled by
royal grant to keep their hats on their heads
i'll the presence of royalty.
EDWIN B. WINANS, who is the first Demo
cratic Governor that Michigan has had in
thirty years. is a conservative, bald-headed
old farmer, with q neatly-trimmei beard
and kindly eyes beaming out Of gold spec
tacles.
SENATOR SAWYER, of Wisconsin, is said to
have reduced his weight sl1ty-fve pounds in
six months by eating four or five times a
day-as often as he desires to eat, in fact
but taking as little food rs possible to as
suage the pangs of hunger. BE also avoids
fluids.
PROBABLY the most extensive farmer in
all Pennsylvania is DR.. Livingood. OF
Womelsdorf, Berks County. His farms
cover about 1000 acres and are worth from
S2OD, 900 to $3.50, 900. He nets an average of
four per cent. on his investments and is
satisfied.
MAYOR SALTER, of Argonia, Kan, besides
attending to the public affairs of that enter
prising little city, does oil the household
work at home, including cooking, washing
and ironing for family of six. 1t is per-
hans unnecessary too add that Mayor Salter
Is aNUu:a~
GENERAL EuerNE A. CARR, one of the
generals campaigning against the Indians
with Miles, is West Point : I'd Inate of long
standing. He is medium-sized I'm, Of
muscular figure, rather bald, and somewhat
peppery in temperament. Socially he IS hos
pitable and most popular.
IT is said Of David Jacks, the Monterey
County (Cal.) millionaire, that he can rlde
twenty miles in straight line upon his own
land. He is Scotchman, and in 1S49 stowed
himself away in barrel on vessel oouna
for California. Now he has fortune OF
s7,OOO,0CO. He is a devout Presbyterian.