The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-29
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Governor-General of Canada costs
the people of that Dominion nearly l,0OO,-
600.
COUNT LEO ToLsroI, the Russian author,
reads, writes and receives his friends In his
bedroom.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the PittSburg iron
master, has given S2500 library to town
on the Orkney Isla nds.
SENAToR-ELEcT PALMER, of Illinois, is
man of only moderate fortune, his estate
being estimated to be worth 500, 600.
Ex-EMPERoR Dom PEDRO, of Brazil. ac-
companied by his daughter and grandson,
visited Queen Victoria at Grasse, France.
COUNT ScHoUvALoFE, the Russian Am
bassador in Berlin, reports to the Car that
his post is untenable, and begs to be recalled.
EAuN PASTA has been heard from. A car
avan sent to the coast by him has arrived at
Bagamoyo. Itbrings a consignment ivory
valued at $40, 000
PAsTEUR, the French scientist, is famous
for his absent mindedness. 1t is said that be
would frequently forget to eat his dinner II
some one did not remind him of it.
ADELAIDE RIsToRI, the Italian actress, is
nearly seventy years old, but she is still
beautiful woman. Her figure is straight and
graceful and her voice strong and clear.
SQUIRE BEAsLEY. of Aberdeen. Ohio, has
married more than 5000 runaway couples
within twentY-one years. The Squire Is now
eighty-two years old, and hale and hearty.
SENATOR WAsHBURN, OF Minnesota, has
80 many Scandinavians in his constituency
that he has decided to visit Norway and
Sweden this summer to study the original
stock.
DR.. VIM I. HARRIS, the United States
Commissioner Of Education, is q tall, straight
and rather thin man. His beard is short
and all gray. He speaks rapidly and easily
and is very entertaining talker.
ERNEST HoRsUNG, the new Australian
writer whose work is becoming very popular
in England, is a mere boy in years, not yet
having reached the age of twenty-one. He
began to write stories in despair OF making
success in mercantile life.
THE late General Albert Pike was an un-
known man when he hrst got into the maya
zines. He was a pioneer in the wilds Of
Arkansas when his "Hymns to the Gods"
published in BldcltaUooGS Magazine excited
the admiration of literary Europe
JOHN STEPHENSON, Of New York, who
built the first American horse car, is more
than eighty years old, but still vigorous and
energetic. His mind is yet busy with inven-
tions, and he can accomplish as much work
in day as man many years his junior.
MRS. r. DEWITT TALMAGE is busy wo-
man, most of her time being devoted to help
ing her husband in his literary and pastoral
work. She takes entire charge of her hus-
bands mail and is frequently up soon after
day-break to open it. Many of his letters
she answers herself.
BOTH the parents of Congressman Nc
Kinley are living at the old home in Canton,
Ohio aged eighty-four and eighty.two re-
spectively. The Congressman is the baby Of
the family, at the age of fifty-four. He has
brother who is Consul at Hawaii, and the
two brothers have not met in fifteen years.
FRANK STOCKTON, the author, dictates all
his novels at the rate of 1000 words a morn
ing He has the entire plot of the novel,
with its dramatic situations and even por-
tions Of the conversations, mapped out in his
head before he has word of it put on paper.
He is dsrk-faced man, with jet black hair
and dark eyes.
HUMBERT J., King of Italy, was born
March IA, 1874, and was the eldest son Of
Victor Emanuel, the first King of United
Italy. He succeeded his father in 1878. He
married in 1868 his cousin, sMargherita,
daughter Of Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa. The
heir apparent, Victor Emanuel Prince Of
Naples, was born in 1859.