THE FATHERS OF GREAT MEN,
An Interesting Compilation That
Worth Keeping for Reference.
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,