The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-03-18

but ordered Hannah TO bJ ing ont the brandy
bu!Ile and 'irate' the boys -FOrest Press.
Recoiiectio,ss oF Great Men.
My only recollection of Demosthenes is
his attempting when boy TO speak q piece
at a district school exhibition and breaking
down. lie was reciing the familiar lines:
You'd scarce expect one Of my age
To speak in public the stage
If | should chance 20 fall below
DemOstheues Or"
At this point he hesitated, pat the corr
ner of his apron to his eyes, burst into
tears and sat down, totally overcome by
the aI!usion to himself and 10y the novelty
of the situation. Cicero, who was lad
at the same school, made fun of Demos
themes, asking him, derisiveIy, if he hadn't
better 20 and hire ont for an orator,
was with Julius Cesar when he pass
ed the Bn bicou. lie held a good haud,
and | told him be had better order it up,
bat he passed The result IS veil known
he lost the game.
Alexander the Great AMI myself were
schoolmates. We were brought up Little
girls together. He used to amusc himself,
! remember, by smashing up all the globes
/ there were in school, and then sit down
and cry because there were no more worlds
to conquer. ! happened TO De with him
/ when he cut the Gordian Knot. Many
others had tried iii vain to DO Ii. 1t was
.'knot for Joe Smart Aleck came
along and cut 1t the first time trying, with
( d patent corn-cutteT.
,.Ff =
/ CARNATIONS [ ever knew, and kceuly sym
pathized with human woes. I have seen
him sit in the ampIhealer at Rome and
weep bitterly when cap,iyes were torn IN
pieces by Wild beasts. 1t is base san~
der 10 say he fddled while Rome was
burning. lie belonged to a fire engine
company, and saw htm working at The
breaks myself Some one saw him as hu
helped to breaker down, and IN the ex-
element Of the moment though lie was
! tiddling, and 50 reported.
! knew Shakespeare as long ago rs
when ne tended store for the Merchant of
Venice aud sold the Prints of Denmark
by the yard. lie was an honest lad with
the yard stick, giving AIa"su for Meas
ure. lie always wanted to be an actor
and was perpetnaily quoting Shakespeare
TO customers. People used 10 leer at him
for Il | have even seen the King Lear.
Shakespeare only laughed, and sand they
were making Much AGO About Noshing,
adding, ''You can have II As You Like Il.
He was fond of the ladies. and popa~
lar scandal associating his name with GER
tain Merry Wives of Windsor, his ems
ployer raised such Tempest about his
ears that he ran away and Joined yarie-
ty company. He made lis dc5at as first
grave-digger in Otheilo.
Diogenes was one Of The most eccentric
men 1 ever knew His mother was
wasierwoman and bs lived in her tub.
except on wash daya, when she had To-
use 1t to make q living for him. Although
hc gets a good deal OF credit nowadays
for having lived in q tub, he didn'! at the
time Of it. The neiehbors used TO cali
him lazy, shii!less fellow, loiiing around
in a tnb, talking philosophy to a lot of
other good-for-rOtlIDgs instead Of working
for living. A good deal has been said
about his walking the streets of Athens
with a laI:tern Ito tind IA man ! saw him
at the time, lie wanted TO find a man
that would stand treat The greatest res
mark Of his that has been preserved, was
when he said "If could live like Alex
ander the Great, ] had rather Dt-ogenesi
Columbus was a mild, sweet disprsi-
toned, but exceedingly rhoug hitul boy,
as / remember him at school When we
boys were out playing, lie would sit and
weep for bours over The incompleteness of
the maps of the period lie felt as tho
something was wanting. he wasn't sat
isGed with ibree>q quarters OF q globe, such
as was employed ia the sehoo's at that
time. lie pined for the other quarter
recoilect his borrowing quarter ut NE ou
two oE three occasions.
lie used to ieii Us there was "A continent
Oat, somewhere, and that wheG ne got big
enough he meant to run away from home,
90 Oh the canal, and discover II, but we
only laughed Al him, little thinking he
would yet give his name TO the State cap
ital of Ohio. lost all traces of Christie
; pher until years afterward, when the tele
, graph brought the news ct bis discovery O
/ America, which up 10 thai Time had sue
} cessfully eiuded the most pei sis'ent efforts
: VI cur best discoveries a1teiQntar