The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-18
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

GLADSTONE is becoming quite deaf.
SrEAKER CRISP is in favor Of an extrs
session Of Congress.
MoNrAaU WILLIAMS, the eminent London
barrister, died a few days ago.
ZoLA, the French novelist, has made
S4OO, 600 by his pen in twenty years.
JACOB HENRIcL the leader of the famous
Economic Society Of Pennsylvania, il
dead.
CONGRESSMAN JERRY SIMPSON says he ia
a candidate for the United States Sena.e
rom Kansas.
THOMAS SETTLE, of North Carolina, only
twenty. eight years Of age is the youngest
member.elect Of the new Congress.
Ex-M1N1sTEn. ENGLAND PHELPS, on
Sea arbitration, will temporarily give up
his PROFESSIONAL duties at Yale.
MRS. GLADSTONE, wife Of the British
Premier, is a voter in Canada, and owns
property at Niagara Falls, Canada. She
owns three acres OF land worth about $500
an acre.
j. d. ROCKEFELLER the Standard Oil
millionaire, has just presented 81, 600, 600 in
bonds to the University Of Chicago, making
s., GOO 90 in all which he has given to that
institution.
A CLEVER man was Bismarck's late
private secretary. Lothar Bucher, whose
demise the ex- Chancellor much deplores. In
O few hours Bucher draw up the Imperial
German Constitution.
EMIL THOMAS, a German actor now play.
ing at Anberg's Theatre in New York
City, has no less than 2503 roles in his roper.
toire, which he has learned during stage
career OF thirty-seven years
CHAUNcEY N. DEPEw is a believer in
scrap books he has eight or ten OF them
which contain clippings from newspapers
and periodicals relating to himself. ALI his
printed speeches are preserved in this way.
SENATOR CARLISLE, of Kentucky, per.
sonally keeps a list Of all applicants for
Office from his State in book. Every time
he receives letter from new applicant he
writes his name and address in the book
under the heading OF the Office to which ne
aspires.
JAMES WHrTcoMB RILEY, the Hoosier
poet. owns up to icing thlrty'elght years
old. he says he was a painter by trade, and
worked at sign writing q long time. He
served an apprenticeship also as house
painter, but was never strong enough to
follow the occupation steadily. .....
JOHN A. NORRIS, the Louisiana million
aire, has one Of the finest country estates In
America in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.
1t embraces 800 acres Of good land, in which
are preserved hundreds OF deer and bear,
and numberless conveys OF game birds,
while the four lakes on the place are black
with mallard duck. .....H
GEORGE GOULD at twenty-sight Is the
youngest American who has inherited an
estate that gives employment to LOO, 600
men. The three successive Aator,, have each
been over forty before they inherited their
fathers fortunes. William q. Vanderbilt
was nearly fifty and his sons were forty
two and thirty-si1 when he died.
LOUIS PAsrEuE was on his SEVENTEEN
birthday presented with the gold medal Of
the Academy of Sciences in the amphi-
theatre of the Soroonne, Paris. President
Carnot, Of France, walked arm-in arm witt,
the distinguished scientist, to his seat, fol-
lowed by the ministers diplomats, scientists
and litterateurs. As the medal was handed
to him NJ. Pasteur embraced the President
and the audience oheered wildly.