The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-03
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

HERR KRuPp, the German gunmaker, has
an income OF over 81, 600, 900.
ASSISTANT PosrMAsrER-GENERAL Max
| WELL was devoted fireman in his younger
days.
JOIN C. ROCKEFELLER. the millionaire
oil magnate, Is great advocate OF physical
: exercise.
The Duke Of Oporto, brother of the King
| Of Portugal, is ore Of the finest flute players
| in the world.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (who took her
first name from the city OF her birth} is
seventy-three years old.
JOSIAH QUINCY, the Assistant Secretary
of State, is a strong believer in cremation as
a means of disposing OF the human dead.
LORD SHANNON, Of England, is known
among his friends as the Cowboy Peer"
Before his succession to the title be served
, on ranch in Manitoba.
PRINCE ROLAND BoNAPARTE, who is de-
| voted to science, is going to make a study
of the Indians OF New Mexico and Colorado
during his Worlds Fair visit.
THE heir apparent OF the British throne,
Prince George Of YORK. has paid visit to
Rome, and has complimsnted both the King
Of Italy and the Pope with call.
ALBERT B. OSBORNE Mayor of Cory,
| Penn, is but twenty.six years old and the
youngest Mayor Of any city in Pennsyl.
vania, or PROBABLY in the United States.
The highest salary drawn by diplomat.
ist is that Of NJ. Waddington, the French
Ambassador to London. His salary is $780,.
900 a year. besides which he has large
private income.
CLARA MORRIS. the actress. has ac-
cepted an invitation from the Worlds Con-
gress Of Representative Women at the
Worlds Fair to speak on the subject,
Women on the Stage"
M. TURPIN, the inventor of melinite,
begged for one more night in Jail, when he
was recently released from a French prison
under pardon. he was busy writing SCI
entifc treatise and wanted to finish the
chapter he was engaged on.
Mr. PRYOR, the oldest clerk in ths Pension
Office. at Washington, has returned TO
work after an absence of over year. He
is ninety years old and has been in the de-
partment for forty years. He is an
authority on the history Of soldiers in the
Revolutionary War.
THERE died in Jamaica, Long Island, N.
Y, a few days ago Thomas j. Wayne,
striking resem bance to that Revolutionary
general. Mr.. Wayne was ninety-two years
old and is surved by his third wife, whom he
married six years ago.
LADY ABERDEEN few days ago made an
excursion by moonlight to Blarney, and
there. by candle light, kissed the "Blarney
stone" in order to qualify herself before 60
ing out to the Irish village at the Chicago
exhibition, where she is to be ''at home"
most Of the time in cottage.
THE twin brothers, Darius and Cyrus
Cobb, of Boston, who are ffty.nine years
old. look 80 much alike that their own chill
dren often mistake them. They married
sisters. Darius is a sculptor Sud Cyrus Is q
painter. William Hunt, the artist, once
styled them Serious" and "Dehrious."
GOVERNOR JOHN E. OSBORNE, of Wyou.
ing, Is the youngest Governor in the United
States. He is only thirty-four, a doctor by
profession, very good looking, of pleasing
address. and went from Vermont to the
West some fourteen years ago thoug q ma
tive Of New York. In his gubernatorial
race he carried evsry county in the State,
save one.
The late Doctor Andrew Peabody, of
Harvard, according to Doctor Edward
Everett Hale, was looking over some ac-
cumulated papers one day, when he discov-
cred that he was $40, 900 richer than he was
the year before. 1hereupon he wrote to
the assessors Of Cambridge, Mass, asking
those officials to impose tax on his property
accordingly.