The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-03-23
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

sRoBrN Hcop" is the title Of Lord Tenny-
sons new drama.
THE Emperor Of Austria writes to the
Pope every week.
K,sc HUMsERr, Of Italy, il an amateur
cook Of no mean skill.
ENaLAND's favorite artist Of the present
day, L. ALI: ,-Tadema, Is man OF Dutch
parentage. .-
TIE German Kaiser continues his night
tours of Berlin, turning up suddenly In un-
expected places.
LORD SALISBURY has the credit Of being
the most industrious aud hardest working
Premier that England has had for many
year.
The Un1ver.ity Of Chicago has received
another magnificent gift from John u:
Rockefeller, tho Standard Oh magnate, OF
81, ,000. 900.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS,, Of Kansas has an
offer Of $40, 900 a year to become tne editor
of a new local afternoon newspaper at
Kansas City.
/ BISHOP QU1NrARD. Of the Episcopal Dio'
cese of Tennessee, is sixty-eight years Old:
His home at Sewanee is noted tdroughout
the State for its hospitality.
GENERAL henry R. JACKSON Is liked by
everybody in the Mexican capital, and ne Is
said to be the most popular Minister thae
has ever represented the United STATES
there. ......
THERE are on,y four authors who earn
S20,OOOa year with their pens. and these
lucky ones are William Dean Howells Rob.
ert Louis Stevenson, "Mark Twain" and
Mrs. Burnett.
GUsrAvE JovANovIrcH, the greatest cat
| tie breeder in Russia and called the king
of the Steppes," owns 900. 900 acres OF Land
and DO. sesses more than !, ,OOO, 600 sheep ana
$4,000 shepherd dogs.
In his recent wedding in London, England.
Lord Abingdon laid unnecessary stress upon
the difference between his own and bis
brides ages by having two OF his grand
daughters serve as bridesmaids.
THEY say that Thomas Mast, the great
cartoonist, grows younger as the years pile
mo their burden on his shoulders. In his
New Jersey home at Morristown he Is some
times seen canSering about on horseback like
a boy.
Mr.. WIsANs, the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction in Kansas, was for.
merly a bricklayer in Atchison, where he
| helped to build Corinthian Hall. State
Senator Kmball, OF Parsons, worked by his
side in those days.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS, of Missouri, Is .
| stickler for 1.-The swallow-taiW coat at his
receptions. Colonel Richard Dalton, who
wants TO succeed Francis, says that If he Is
elected Governor the people may call on him
ir their shirt sleeves.
TIE choice Of a wife for Prince George, OF
England, has gradually narrowed down to
two women-Princass Victoria, daughter OF
Prince Christian, and Princess Victoria OF
Hesse. the yo INCEST daughter Of Princess
May. Both are charming and popular
girls.
JOHN MARcBAST MUNDY, the blind sculp-
tor of Tarrytown, N. Y. has completed the
model for q statue Of Washington Irving.
Ee can scarcely distinguish light from dark.
ness without the aid OF an opera glass, but
aisvork b, 8 been done almost entirely by the
sense Of touch.
WHILE Jaraes Whitcomb Riley was CIV
ir- a reading at the Grand Opera House
K.nsas City, the other night, Mrs Amanda
E. McChesnoy, of Mcclure, claimed him as
her son, wno ran away twenty seven years
ago, wrote poetry and and travelled with q
show. 10 :oeA insisted that no had clear
record or his parentage.
SENATOR PETTIGREw, Of South Dakota,
lived for many years In SIOUX Glty, Io"a,
in a log cabin that was his own handiwork.
This was not long ago, for the Senator Is
even now not much hoyond forty. De was
Vermont farmers boy, and when attracted
to the West he walked much OF the distance.
His first investment Of money was lucky
one, for he bought some of the land on
which Sioux City now stands, and In this
| his present fortune had its source.