The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MIR. FEoUDE, the English historian, Is
most enthusiastic yachtsman.
REV. JAMES SpURRELL. Of England, gave
S1,130,00c to charity last year.
NINE. PATTrs annual income for SONS
years past has been not ltss than 92O0, 600.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts possesses,
among other honors, tho freedom OF the city
OF London.
EDITOR CHARLES A. DANA, of the New York
Sun, has Just celebrated the serenty-lfth an
niversary of his birth.
THE young Chinese Emperor's knowledge
OF English leads him to encourage long talks
with foreign diplomats.
Professor ELY, Of the State University OF
Wisconsin, has been put on trial ior teacnlnS
students socialistic doctrines.
IT was an electric car that startled the
horse Of the. Archduke Of Austria the other
day. causing the Dukes death.
AMONG Father Kneipp's patients. at Woer-
isbofen, Bavaria, at present, Is DR.. Koch, VINO
Is trying the priests water cure.
An American, John Hays Hammond, Is the
engineer Of the British South African Com
pany. and receives salary OF s60, 900 ayear.
The oldest Of the Forty French Immortals
Is n. Begouve. who IS nearly eighty-eiSht.
Paul Bourget Is the youngest, and he Is fol-
ty-one.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, who Is now sev-
enty-four years of age, Is in very poor
health. She lives In very quiet spot
In the west of London.
BIcYcL1sT Z1MMEnMAN has a great heart.
The doctors say that it is two inches longer
than the average mans, and that his endur-
ance is due to this tact.
Burton G. Cook, the nominator OF A5ra.
ham Lincoln for the presidency in 1864, died
few days ago at Evanston. Ill. He was
born In Pittsford, N. Y, IN 1919.
The most expensive shooting box on earth
belongs to George Gould, and is in the Cats
kills OF New York. There are foxes and
buffaloes and pigeons and pheasants galore.
The Mikado OF Japan has never been will
ingly photographed or even sEetched. 1t is
a capital offense for O native to make any
kind of pictorial representation OF him, as
1t Is regarded as grave indiSnity.
WILLIAM C. VAN HoRS, the President OF
the Canadian Pacific Railway, who has been
made Knight Commander OF the Order OF
st. Michael and st. George, is native OF IL
linois, and began life as telegraph opera
tor at the age Of thirteen.
AFTER the close of his term of Office Gov
ernor Northern, OF Georgia, Will devote his
time to the business OF attracting immigra-
ton to Georgia. He was the principal of a
school before his election, and recently Dr.
clined an offer to take charge OF Southern
college.
JUDGE ELI AYLEswoETH, President OF the
Westminster Bank, of Providence, Z. l.,
who lately died at the age OF ninety-two,
had been banker fifty years. In little box
in the bank he kept all his life the first four
silver dollars he ever earned. He got them
by pitching hay and hosins potatoes.
FnASc1s MARION CRAWFORD is thrifty
literary man. He has been spending Is good
deal OF time in Washington lately educating
Concressmen about u 100000 claim In
which he is interested. Now he has he!pe1
pay his board bill there by writing his i'm
pressions of the city for one OF the big maGa-
zines.
HERR KRuPp, the great gun founder, has
commissioned Munich sculptor to model
statue of the Chinese Vlceroy, Ii Hung
Chang, which he means to present when
completed to the Asiatic diplomatist as
token of respect for the pains taken by him
TO introduce European ordnance into the
Chinese army and navy.
ANDREW FRANKLIN. Of Burlington. kan.,
Is one OF the oldest pensioners on the rolls
of the War Department, having been born
on Christmas Day, in 1871. He fought IN
the war Of 1912, IN two Indian wars, and
served as teamster In the Civil War. In
spite of his 1O3 years, Franklin, it is said,
''can do more chores than most men at
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