The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1860-10-24
40.
Great Men who rose from the Ranks.

facture of Grea: Britain Lord Tenderden,
one of The most distinguished OF English
lord Chief justices; and Turner, the very
greatest among landscape painters. No one
knows TO a certainty what Shakespeare was;
but it is unquestionable that he sprang from
a very humble rank. The common class o.
day laborers have given Us Brndley, tho
engineer, Cook the navigator; and Burns.
the poet. Masons and Bricklayers can
boast of Ben Johnson, who worked at the
building of Lincol's Inn, with trowel in
his hand and book in his pocket; Ed
wards and Telford. the engineers Hugh
Miller, the geologist and Allan Cunning.
ham, the writer and sculptor; willis: among
distinguished carpenters, we find the names
of lingo Jones, the architect Harrison, the
chronomeier maker; John Hunter, the
physiologist; Romney and Opie, painters
Professor Lee, the orientaisi and John
Gibson, the sculptor. From The weaver
class have sprung Simpson, The mathema-
ucian; Bacon, the sculptor, the two miners,
Adam Walker, John Foster; Wilson, the
orTithologist; DR.. Livingstone, the mis-.
slonary traveller; and Tannahil, the poet.
Shoemakers have given US Surgeon, the
electrician Samuel Drew, essayist Gif-
ford, the editor of the Quarterly Review
Bloomfield, poet and William Cary, The
missionary ) whilst Morrison, another labo-
rlous missionary, was a maker of shoe lasts
Within The last year, profound naturalist
has been discovered in the person of shoe
maker, al Banf, named Thomas Edwards,
who, while maintaining himself by his
trade, has devoted his leisure to the study
OF natural science in all lis branches, his
researches in connection with the smaller
crustacea having been rewarded by the
| discovery of new species, TO which the
name of Praniza Edcardoi has been given
by naturaiss.
Nor have the tailors been altogether un-
DECENTRALIZATION, the painter, having
| work ed at the trade until he reached man.
hood. But what is more remarkable, one
of the gsllaniest of British seamen, Admiral
Hobson, who broke the boom al Vigo in
1902, originally belonged TO this calling
He was working as taior's apprentice
near Bon-church, 10 the isle of Wight, when
the news few through the village that q
squadron of men-of war were sailing off
the island. He sprang from the shopboard,
and ran down with his comrades 10 the
beach 10 gaze upon the glorious sight. The
tailorboy was suddenly inhamed with the
ambition 10 be sailor. and springing into
a boat he rowed off 10 the squadron, gained
the admral's ship, aud was accepted as a
volunteer Years after, he returned to his
native village, full of honors, and dined off
bacon and eggs in the cottage where he had
worked as a Iailor's apprentice. Cardinal
Wolsey, DeFoe, Akenside, and Kirke
White, were the sons OF butchers Buny an
was tinker, and eph Lancaster basket
maker. Among the great names identified
with the invention of the steam engine are
thos OF Newcomer, Watt, and Stevenson
the first blacksmith, the second a maker
of mathematical instruments, aud the third
an engine fireman. DR. Hutton, he geolo.
gist, and Berwick, the father of wood en-
craving, were coal miners Dodsley was
footman, and Hocroft a groom. Buffin, the
navigator, was a common seaman, and Sir
Cloudesy Shovel cabin boy. Herschel
played the obeo in military band. Chan
trey was a journeyman printer, and Sir
Thomas Lawrence the son of a tavern>
keeper.
Michael Faraday, The SOC of a poor
blacksmith, was in early life apprentced
TO a bookbinder, and worked at the trade
until he reached his twenty-second year !;
he now occupies the very first rank as
philosopher, exceling even his master, Sir
Humphrey Davy, in the art of lucidly ex-
pounding the most difficult and obtuse
points in natural science. Not long ago Sir
Roderick Murchison discovered at Thurso,
in the far north of Scotland, profound ge-
ologist, in the person oil a baker there.
named Robert Dick When Sir Roderick
called upon him at the bake house, in
which he baked and earned his bread, Dick
delInealed 10 him, by means OF -four upon
: a board, the geographical features and
geological phenomena of his native county,
j pointing out the imperfections in The exist.
ing maps, which he had ascertained by
travelling over the country in his leisure
hours On further inquiry, Sir RodericE
ascertained that the humble individual be
fore him was not only capital baker and
geoloeist but a first rate boianist. 81
ound," said the director general of the
Il Geographical Society, 40 my great humilia
e tiou, that this baker knew infinitely more
. OF botanical science, aye, ten times more
than did /; and that there were only some
twenty OF thirty specimens OF flowers which
he had not collected. Some he had Oh
tanned as presents, some he had purchased
: but the greater portion had been accumula
= | led hv his industry In his native county o