The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-05-14
Wh0n do Great Men Marry.

number OF the Physiological Journal,
ansYers the question as follows:
WomSn, of course. But thev show
the same diversity of taste that is
seeniu;she lower ranks, and on the
whole make worse mistakes. They,
however, generally show the same
sense in choosing wives that they
show in managing other peoples af-
faira vhether it be good or bad.
John Howard, the great philan.
thropistxs married his nurse. She
was aItogether beneath him in social
life and intellectual capacity, and be-
sides this, was fifty-two years old
while he was but twenty He
would not take s'No' for an answer,
and they were married, and lived
happily together until her death,
which occurred two wears afterward.
Peter the Great of Russia, married
peasant girl. She made an excel
lent wife and sagacious Empress.
Humboldt married poor girl be-
cause he loved her. Of course they
ware happy.
Shakespeare loved and wed farm
er's dsughter. She was faithful to
her voRe, but we could hardly say
the same OF the great bard himself.
Like M6st of the great poets, he
showed too little discrimination in
bestoNiRg his affection upon the 9TH
er SEX. =
Byxon married Miss Milbank to
get money to pay his debts. 1t
turned out bad shift.
Robert Burns married farm girl.
with whom he fell in love while they
worked together in the plow field.
He too, was irregular in his life, and
committed the most serious mistakes
in conducting his domestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter of
country squire, but he lived with her
but short time. He was an aus
tere, ~exacting, literary recluse !;
while she was rosy, rompiDg coun-
try lase that could moi endure the
restraint imposed upon her, and 30
they separated. Subsequently, how
ever, she returned, and they lived
tolerably happy |,
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
were cousins, and about the only ex- j..
ample in the long line of Englisht
monarchs wherein the marital vows
were sacredly observed and sincere,
affection, existed.
Washington married a widow wifi b
two children. 1t Is enough to say
of her that she was worthy of MIN.
and that they lived ss married folks
should, in perfect harmony. I
John Adams married the daughter
OF Presbyterian clergyman. Her
father objected on account of John
being lawyer; he had bad opin-
ion of the morals OF the profession.
Thomas Jefferson married Mrs.
Martha SkeitOn, O. ehildless widow,
butshe brought him q large fortune
in real estate Alter the ceremony
she mounted the horse behind him
and they rode home together. 1t
was late in the evening, and they
found the fire out. But the great
statesman hustled around and re-
built it, while she seized the broom
and put things in order. Itsis need
less to say that they were happy.
Jefferson died poor man on ac-
count of his extreme llberality and
II
Benjamin Franklin married the
girl who stood in her fathers door
md laughed at him as he wande red
through the streets of PhiladelI,hia, 4
With rolls of bread under his arm
md his pocket filled with dirty
;lothes. She had occasion to be
lappy when she found herself the |
wife Of such great and good man.
1t is not generally known that An
rev Jackson married lady whose
husband was still living. She was
IN uneducated but amiable woman,
md most deyoutly attached to the
I'D warior and statesman.
John C. Calhoun married his cous-
n, and their children, fortunately,
we're neithers diseased nor idiotic,
,ut they do not evince the talent of
he great States Rights advocate.
Edward Lytton Bulwer, the Eng
ish statesman and novelist, married
girl much his inferior in position, I
nd got a shrew for wife. She is
low insane. III
General Sam Houston lived happi- L
= with q squaw wife, while General r
Zen. Butler was divorced from an &C L
lady. Edwin Forrest,
be great tragedian, ,, married beau
iful actress, from whom he was di.
orced.
General Fremont married the
aughter of Thomas II. Benton
gainst the latter's wish, which oblig-
d him to elope with her on stormy
ight. The union proved happy
ne in spite of the squally beginning.
Horace Greeley married school
distress whose beauty was question A
BILE. but whose sense and goodness Il
atisfied one Of the greatest men of q
is time z
General W. T. Sherman married Vv
le daughter of Thomas Ewing. OF II
hio, who WAS q member of Tsylor's
abinet, This alone would have
cen good start in life for any
oungs man. A. JEFF Davis, for his
rst wife, won the hand OF Zach.
aylor's daughter, and General
rant married Miss Dent, of st.
ouis. Sheapparently has more sense
an show, and is, therefore, fit for a
residents wife.
A CASE exhibiting the arrest of de
,lopment and growth in child,
Using from the intemperance OF
arents, has recently been reported
7 the London Pathological Society.
be child, in this instance, was five
,ars old, but had the intellect of an
FAINT of nine months. One of the
embers of the Society stated that
had met with several examples
this degeneracy. These examples,
was asserted, all possessed the
me physical and mental peculiari-
IS, and formed, in fact, natural g
nily. They had been known toS0I
e twenty-five years, remaining
rmanent infants-symmetrical IN
rm, just able to stand by the side
q chsir, to utter few monosyllab-3