THE FATHERS OF GREAT MEN, An Interesting Compilation That Worth Keeping for Reference. is Homer was a farmer's son. Lucian was a sculptor’s son Neander's father was a carter, Pope's father was a merchant. Milton was the son of a copyist, Mozart's father was a bookbindex, Charles Lamb was a servant's son, The father of Cowley was The father of Pius IV. was a peasant, Sch ann's father was a bookseller The father of Pius V. wa Talma. the act \ The Socrates was the tof GN Epictetus riot! Hw Orocey i grocer, a shephad dentist's soi fatl her « Of vits a day i i «ON farmer Paganini’ factory. The fa The Danish scholar, Rask, wa ant's son Hauy, the mineralogist, was a w son, Canova, the scul r, a stonecut ter's son. The Emperor of Diocletian was the son of a slave. Coply, the laborer. The father try dealer Opie’s fs netmaker. The fathe: a l 3 i - a knifemaker Vandvke's ye 2 3 iimited mes The gamekeog i 3 1 s artist, he son of wns t of Horne Tooke Wis a pol wither was a « arpenter and cghi. Rollin, wa father was merchent of many ve Mass was an Ws gon of The f: was a farm Tannahill ri ¢ ather o been said rdinal Wolsey is to have a butcher . Thesfather of George del was a country doc Gaussone, the great the son of a bricklayer, Tintoretto. the fam the ON of a dvi Mezzofanti, the was a carpenter's son Gesner, t son of a far Frederick Hen or, maker Priece he GGerioa«- naturalist, was the great align painter, was the son of a peasant, ; Alvarez, the Spanish sculptor, was the son of & stonem on, Rembrandt's f-ther is said to ave been a miller and a [Armee The Thomas Gealer in poultry ani game. Marshal St. Cyr was a peddler's son and enlisted as a private 2 Murat was an innkeepers son, intended for the priesthood. Fishbein, the goat historic] painter, was the son of a baker, i Magliabecchi, the linguist, was the son | of a vegetable ped lier. Farinelli, the wonderfol thalg soprano, was the son of a miller The father of Edward Irving, divine, was a tanner, Sallust was the son of a slave, some say, of a freedman, Blake, the poet, engraver and painter, 1 was the son of a hosier, The father of Spontini, the apera com ger, was a farm laborer, The father of Diderot, pedist, was a knife grinder. i The Roman Emperor Maxin jun was the sou of a common soldier, The father of Thorwaldser, tae sculp. tor, was a ship carpenter, i Rossenu, the author of the son of = watchmaker, i Gifford, the poet, was & snilor's son, | and himself a shoemaker, The father of David Livingstone was | an operator in a cotton mill, { Franklin was the son of 8 seap-boiler, | snd was himself a printer, Marshal Lannes was a carpenter's son, and himself an apprentice. Ramus, the divine, was the son of a laborer, and himself a servent, Demosthenes was the son of a sword er and blacksmith, i The father of Sir Robert Poel, the statesman, was a day laborer, The father of Johann Muller, the Ger. man scientist, was a peaspnt, The father of Keats kept a livery stable, in which the poet was born. Cervantes’ father was a soldier, and he himself served in many wars, Mendelssohn, the Jewish philosopher, was the son of a pawubroker, father of Hood was a and the great or as the encyclo Eosile,” was Marshal Suchet was a boy, and enlisted in the ranks The father of Constable, the painter, was i miller and a flour merchant, Daniel Webster was the son of a farmer in very humble circumstances, The father Alexander Wilson, the ornithologist, was a day laborer, Southey’s father was a linen drapes and employed his son in the shop. of | educational works | man The Emperor Maximilian of a peasant who had been a slave, ihe father of Whewell i mer, was the son cian and philoso Huaivey, wl } if Tin Wis 4 joiner, 10 discovered the circulation 's boy af a butcher A blood, was a Defoe farmer ine maker by trade father was a shop irned Isaac for the sam atly disappointed when ] i work to read books + fatl of Ludwig ’ the of wisn cabin bos sO tine was a beggar's son, and in tos ) y himself a beg was a grocer and the wied the great inthropist § son of a theatre violi + (German poet, was a tation ; It 1 hi ig Hin il himself followed that calling. HIM dy Ter Atin writer of « in was also his f ns her Kepler, the astronomer matnema ne father : al and wis a priv ate sol Galerius was the and himself a shep Thackeray was a he East India Company French poet, th Beranger, the and himself a of a waiter. Marshall Victor was a hostler's and Wis 1 tailor, tavern listed as a private ros¢ from ranks oreat great "he father of Spohr, the was a country doctor with the portrait Northeote, I } 1 $ chanic and watchmak Iresser Gray's ist. and designe occupation Faraday's father » chemicals Marshal Bessie and after enlistis the ranks The father of f sacred music Of The satirist, an inn-kKecper father Was 4 servant ay, Marshal Augerean was the of a that business to enlist as |8OM grocer, and left 2 private soldier The father a who used often reprove his son for the lack of attention to his business The father of Sir Humphrey Davy was a wood-carver, and fotenion his for of Collins was hatter. ®ON that busin ss Winkleman, the German philosopher, was the son of a shoemaker, and himself worked at the bench, The father of Michael Romanoff, the Marshal Lefebvre was the of a driver, and began his military career as a private soldier. Moliere was the son of an upholsterer, RON The father of Sextus V. was a tenant Aesop's father was a slave, and the Claude Lorraine, the great landscape painter, was the son of a cook, and him self learned the art of pastry. The father of John Hunter, the great Kirke White, the English poet, was a butcher's son and carried steaks to his father's customers, The father of Kant, the great German thinker, was a saddler and taught his The father of Chaucer was a vintoer, and the future poet spent his youth washing bottles, Thiers, the historian of the French Revolution, and afterward president of Hans Bach, the father of the Bach family, was a baker. Over 200 of his descendants have been famous as musi- cians, Ferguson, the astronomer, was a shop- herd’s son and taught himself astronomy while keeping night guard over the sheep. The father of Horace was a slave, af- terward a freedmar, who devoted kis i § 3 gifted son “The Creation,” often scolded business, George Whitefield's father was an inn keeper, and in his boy hood George held the inn door and ran for the guosts, President Johnson wis a wheelwrizght and his fol 80nN horses at was the son of par himself a tailor and unable to read nearly a years of age, Porson, the great Latinist, was His taste fo the accidental rl the learning wns sO of a weaver, kindle book Aitin provi vas a robber {that b Inigo Jones th wis the is father Ol Rossini wid also thi was 4 baker, hi inst an and a cabinet-maker, chan il em ployment; carpenter was attention to poetry Akenside's father he poet himsell sunded Dur roman put wan in bovhood by the fall of Louis Globe-Demnacrat, POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES, By the aid observate eq attered over I Monchez brought within human Ket A discovery of South Africa is a ston Lori Alm ig tha nearis burned into a quality, The acres, and varies feet wi 1 \ erily x shrinks IMense n f what than we have pr om the conte: satic We such a of vi 1 mmbers nave an idea means length the » word * Ace matician, if : are put into th 264 days or somet exhaust its variations Many Captured British Flags. It is asserted there Institute Hall are in the Naval the Annapolis Md British flags captured in war than at any place in the world, The collection was first moved to the navy school by order of President 9, 1849 They are well pres ved, being closed up in cases made for the purpose Among the many might be mentioned the following: En. sign of the Reindeer, « aptured June 28, 1814, by Captain Johnson Blakeley, of the Wasp; ensigns of the Cyane and Le- vant, captured February 20, 1815, by Captain Charles Stewart, of the Constitu tion: ecosign of the Java, captured De cember 20, 1812, by Captain William Bainbridge, of the © mstellation, now at it one i during the war of 1812, by Captain William Burrows, of the brig Enterprise, fiow at the academy, besides a large num. ber of other English flags, and several others taken from the Chinese, Coreans, Mexicans, French and Confederates, | The Collector. The Vegetable Fly. Ono of the most curious natural pro- ductions of the West Todies is the famed vegetable fly, and inscet about the size and color of a drone bee, but without wings. In the month of May it buries itself in the earth and begins to vegetate, By the beginning of June a sprout has fasued from the creature's back and made its appearance above the surface of the ground. By the end of July the tiny tree (known on the istund as the fly tree) has attained ite full size, being then about three inches high, but a perfect tree in every particular, much resembling a delicate branch, Pods appear on its branches as soon as it arrives at its full wth; these ripen and drop off in ugust, Instead of containing as one would naturally suppose, these pods have from throe to six small hard worms upon the interior, —[ Rural Collaborator. THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH. Sarr Waren Barns, ple nowadays deny the of miner wiles Robbin, of special Not wholesome effect and M. Albert has made a ‘ of mineral many peo- bath vho { fT, sults on th bry the bath, 15...1 nprpaais i of his fins The odor {r d makes mor : Nymetimoes leaves gives flavor to phere for quite a that ther of pine forests in pulmo This is almost proved by of resins or of these “The presence of tine in the pine forests” Loomis, of New Yorks, remarks not be doubted, and its and con stitutional effects are those of a pow erful germicide as well as stimulant no Dr. Loomis quotes the opinion of Mr, King. sett, that turpentine, during its oxida tion, evolves 9 peroxide of hydrogen, and therefore, by the “oxidation of the terchinthinates, there is produced in ex tensive pine forests an almost illimitable amount of peroxide of hydrogen, w hich renders the atmospheres of such forests antiseptic.” He believes that the per oxide of hydrogen so abundantly pro duced in pine forests successfully arrests yatrefactive processes and septic poison ing, and therefore, he recommends resi dence in the pine forests as one of the most efficient means of relieving the symptoms of tuberculosis and retarding the progress of this fatal malady. At high altitudes, the coniferous or ever green trees usually predominate, and if the views of Professor Loomis be sub. stantinted by future investigations, it may be that the benefit believed to be obtained by consumptives at high eleva- tions is partly due to the exhalations of these trees, Many of those who have changed resi. dence to pine districts because of pulmo- nary disease, accord with these views, The same advantage, to a smaller degree, is claimed for the birches: but large for ésta of these do not abound in many lo- calities in the United States, It is true that in all these cases the condition of the soil has something to do with the conditions of health: but even this is somewhat dependent upon the trees, The dry bed, made, for instance, by the needles of a pine forest, forms a dry cov- ering to the ground, which has much to is strony furper Lim diseases i { the vapor of turpen Pr. A. L Yiean local do with the saf walks amid thes rustling amid the tion and re pose BOme ye Loudon upon the be do abnormal gre i Hun Funerals In Paris, How to Fly ites, wiual height of « difficult to t floating in The rth \ an it real flying at a heig reached about as h without the Such a Kit of half of the that the Kite 1s not ov the ground Ordivarily the Kite will g even if more string 1s let bie ARE] will seem § a mile, vot a « i tvinvery and it t SLING and iis 83 mile above the wind presses against the of string with increasing kite recedes and rises If more than one kite be tps able heights are attainable The kites can be fastened along a sing! string, but this method requires quickness in attaching the right amount of ts each Kite, otherwise so much time be wasted in preparing the successive kites for flight that the daylight will wane before the experiment can be con Cone lauded However, when one kite is up and the amount of tail for it is determined, it becomes possible, after long experienc to at once estimate the amount of tail necessary for cach additional kite, ac. cording to its size. [ Pittsburg Dis. patch, wl remark W. B. Barber of Califorais, with a camera, has photographed a man named Jacob Myers, as he stood upon one fool on the top of a limbless tree 178 feet high and fourteen inches in diameter at the top. Mr Myers, it is claimed, per. formed the wonderful feat of dancing a jig on the top of the tree. ** Few peo. sie,” says Mr. Myers, ** like to go ap so Rich, but I have never yet seen a place too high for me. It is no trick at all for mo in these great red woods to climb a tree, cut off the top and stand on it, 1 have stood on the extreme end of an electric tower in Tipton, lowa tower was 159 feet high and I stood on a one-inch rod with one foot. Of this you can get proof from Tipton. 1 was a stranger there, but you ean find that 1 did so by asking the people of Tip ton." [New York Dispatch. A SAA si The bronze cents, such as are in circu. lation now, were first coined in 18M, * THE OLD BRICK OVEN. How Cooking Was Done in the Early Days Home Experiences, Hy Yesrs ago, mv a brick oven say We Oven Was 1 } i HA 9 such an aptit ie {IR will twin out aether Hike patchwork, il even o stray pieces of silk in a crazy But the We thirty befor : Nace Hen hools and want an exact rule, want to Ix we can count the our pies in the of £ ook ir wed who mysteries of but when asked how t bread she replied: baked it about the quantity she answered me.” So after all value lent ugh pupils at cookin be like Miss wished to learn the ven cookin ‘ ooking books, yools are apt last vear the art. Jennie, She took a course, baked he od long she “1 do Know, {or Susar When questioned butter in her cake the butter for Susan's susan ol it was bread and cake An Elertrie Frying Pan, It is now p wsible to cook with clec tricity The bottom of an ordinary fry. ing pan 1% coats d with an insulating Ne amel. in which is embodied a zig-zag wire convering the current. To prever: radiation from the insulating enamel the plate on its under surface is protected The wire i= made of an coming very hot it makes the iron pan about 480 degrees to 506 degrees, The pan does not become incandescent, coffee made in a jiffy, while the expense is almost nothing, as the electric rurrent can ov Switched from an ordinary six. teen-power incandescent lamp, There are no unpleasant fumes and no danger from fire. With an electric frying pan and an electric teaketile a bacl elor could prepare his own meals and live well for Rxtracting Polson from Bees, There are two farmers of Milltown, Penn, who have gone into the busin .se catch the bees, and either immerse them for eight days in a boltle of sicohol, hav. ing paviously envaged them, so as to cause the poison to exude from the poison saos, or cise they kill them and squeers the virus into a glass tube. The virus has a local repute as a cure for dropey, chills and fever and all kinds of insech sings. | New Orleans Picayune,
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