Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-09-10


aaa isAsensial snoug men:
Cslumbss was the son Of q weaver, and
weaver AiassG
Clasde Lasaas vas bred . passry-eook.
Carveates Was . common soldier.
Heose vas the son Of . small farmer.
Aollessse. ssn Of . pastry maker.
DsaestAsoss, soa Of . cutler.
Tas1eo - dave.
Oliver Cromwell was the son of brewer.
Howard, an apprentice to a grocer.
Franklin. journeyman printer; son Of .
tsilow chandler and soap boiler.
Dr.. Thomas, Bishop Of Worcester. son Of .
linen draper.
Daniel D~foe, was hosier. aud the son of
butcher.
Wbite6eld, son Of an inn-keeper at Glou-
cester.
Sir Cloudsiy Shovel, Rear Admiral of Eng
land, Vas an apprentice to shoemaker, and
aftetwards cabin.boy.
Bishop Prideau, worked in the kitchen at
Exeter College, Oxford.
Cardinal Wolsey. son of a butcher.
Ferguson was shepherd.
Dean Tucker was the son of a small far
mer in Cardiganshire, and performed his jours
neys to Oxford on foot.
Edmund HALEY was the son of a soap.
boiler at Shoreditch.
Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, was tho
son of farmer at Ashhy de Ia Souch.
Virgil WAS the son of a porter.
Horace was the son of shopkeeper.
Shakespeare, Of wool stapler.
Horace, of shopkeeper.
Milton Of money. .scrivener.
Robert Burns was plowman.
Copfacius was carpenter.
Mohammed, called the prophet, was the
driver Of asses.
Mehemet Ali was barber.
Madam Bernadotte, washcrwoman of Paris.
Napoleon was the desccndent of an obscure
family at Corsica was Major when he mar
ried Josephine. the daugh te of tobacconis6
Creole Of Martinique.
President Boyer was was a mulatto bar
Der.
Gen. Espartero was vestry clerk.
King Chtistophe of Hayti, was slave of
6t. kits.
Bolivar was druggist.
Yasco Dc Cana was sailor.
Columbus was sailor.
Astof, the richest man in the world, before
he came to be proprietor of the Astor House
used to sell apples apples through the streets
of New York.
Catharine, the Empress of Russia, was
camp grizette.
Cincinnatus was plowing his vineyard when
the Dictatorship Of Rome was offered to him.
SctENrfrIc OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES has
never been able to discover any atmosphere
surrounding the moon. We know that we
cannot imagineiife without air. There could
be no sound; mo heat, no sky, no cloud. We
can hardly find anything we call living but
owes its life to air; therefore it has been con-
jectured that the moon is uninhabitcd. But
Mr.. Hanson, distinguished astronomer, has
found discrepancy in the idea, and conceives
that there may BE- life there, at least on one
side. Several cases of irregularity in the
time Of the moons course, he ascribes to th.,
effect Of uneven gravitation. He states that
the center Of figure and the center of gravity
are not coincident, one being distant from the
other eight miles: Thus her sphere is heavier
on one eide than on the other. like an egg.
Balls have been cast hollow, but with one
aide thicker than the other; the density being
given, calculation describes tho curve 10 a
nicely, and cics rersa." The conclusion Of
Mr. Hansen is that the hemisphere turned to-
wards US II the lighter half: As air and wa
ter would naturally gravitate to the heaviest
side; he concludes it is probable that life may
exist on tho hidden side, and that world corr
responding to our own, may have its " men
in tho moon"
Thts il the most tahtaiizing suggestion that
science has given us. To think that our
neiEhbots must perforce keep themselves on
the hidden aide, and are forbid forever all the
Investigations Of science, seems little too lad.
We have always been calculating upon the
time whsn new discoveri~s in lenses would
bring - . glimpse Of some wonder in that
hsids q he night that walks 20 calmly thro'
hes slas-escs@passed pathway. throwing her
beautiful ssil svsa to the shadows Of our earth,
ooving oar seas By her love. and sending
:hsssga tie nesvoas life Of 10 poor mortals
ssos srsse ofa Presence that Is "a 30 near and
YET - far"
o. thing ~ ere sure of: il this state of
shiaes rs.ly exist. and the Moouit<s have Z
IL 4 Yankss spirit. th~y will consise soos
vsy 10 1ssa hsr vaste places both With air
ss1 vsaes. ssa ve shall yes Be shls - feel tha
aesivs a<sgis q hn vakiag vill-
1Ws sksaA sse to il that vs are CO.
sissaly s1iohiag IN life. There % 70 going
asws. IL b elios;se os falling Ever up
vas1 arp nakss ssahes ne-dfuI: ard % we
asst - - u.sa ve ssaeA the summit Of sAs
asPirs1isa 6tine.