Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1864-04-20
Things Worth Knowing.

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Claude Lorain and Poussin, the artists,
we're born in 1900, the year in which
Hooker died.
Claude and MurriIIO died in the year
1852.
Milton, Clarendon and Fuller were all
born in 1908. The two former died in
the same year 1874, and the year in
which watts was born.
Shakespeare and PocahOntas died in the
same year, 1915.
Raleigh died in 1918, the year in which
the famous Synod OF bort was formed
Bunyan was born in 1923, the year in
which Decker died, and died in 1858, the
year Pope was born.
Dryden was born in 1851, the year IN
which Donne died, and died in 100, the
year in which Thompson and Blair were
born.
Calico, Guido and Boyd all died in
the year 1912.
Burnes, the historian, was born in
1913, the year in which Hampden died
Rollin and Fuller died the year Defoe
was born, 1861.
Swift was born in 1867, the year Jere-
my Taylor died.
Locke and Sir Christopher Wren were
born in 1882.
Bolingbroke and Addison were born
1872, two years before Milton died.
Detoe died in 17l3, the year Sterne
was born.
Burnot died in 1714, the year White
field and Shenstone we're born.
LelbuitB died in 17l6, the year Gar
rick and Gray were born.
Penn died in 1718, the year Putnam
and Brainard were born.
Sir c. Wren died in 1928, the year in
which Blackstone and Reynolds were
born.
Cowper was born in l731
Goldsmith was born in 1929, the year
in which Steele died.
Gibbon, SmoIIet, Collier and Akensids
were all born in 1921.
Gibbon and Akenside died in 1896;
the same year Weatherspoon died
Watts and Thompson died in 1748.
YOltaire and Pitt in 1778.
Christopher Wren in 1924, the year
Priestly and Coleridge were born.
George Washington, Patrick Henry
and Howe, all died in 1893.
Cromwell and Hampden, who we're
cousins, both took passage in a vessel
that lay in the Thames, bound for North
America, in 1887. They we're actually
on board, when an order of council op-
peared, BY which the shi was prohibited
from sailing.
Goethe was at one time, also on the
brink Of crossing the ocean for Amer
lea.
So was Robert Burns
A scheme of Pautisocracy, in 1895,
came near bringing Southey, Lowell,
Coleridge and Burnet to America.
- proof of the wonderful memory of
Thomas Fuller, it is stated that he could
repeat five hundred unconnected words
after twice hearing them, and recite the
whole Of the signs in the principle street
of London, after once passing through it
and back again.
Locke was banished as a traitor, and
wrote his Essay on the Human Under
standing, sheltering himself in a Dutch
garret.
Homer sang his own ballads.
| Virgil was so fond of salt that he sell
dom went without a box full in his
pocket
Addison, who is acknowledged to have
been one of the most eloquent writer's
that ever lived, was awkWardly stupid in
conversation.
Handel was such missr that he was
frequently known to wear a shirt month
to save the expense Of washing.
tits said that Dryden was always cup
ped and physiced previous to a grand
effort at tragedy. He vas a firm believer
in tragedy.
It is stated that Pitt required great
deal of sleep, seldom being able to dc
with less than ten or eleven hours.
Sir William Jones was the master Ot
twonty-eight languages.
The father of Henry Kirke White was
a butcher, as was also that Of Cardinal
Wolsey and the poet Akenside.
White was apprentiOed to a stocking
weaver.
Montgomery at the age of fourteen, tc
= shop keeper.
! Crabbe was the SOD of a saIt-master, o.
collector of salt duties.