Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-13
BIRrnPLACEs OF FAMOUS MEN.
DISPUTES As To WHERE THEY FIRST
SAW TIE LIGHT or DAY.

Seven fair cities contendeI fol
the honor Of hearing Homer; bul
We do not know how many will In
the iuture compete for this pFivileg,
of giving birth to NJ. Gladstone,
says the London Standard Tn,
actual number il, We believe, al
present, eleven, AID Tor tlie lime
being Liverpool j. the fist favorite.
Blu. u would tie uuwisc 10 reopen
that controversy. H. however, Air.
Gladstone suffers from unfortun.
ately possessing . redundancy o.
ilEtuplaczs, 10 Is a remarkable fact
that Lord BelcOusfieli, whom he
admits u have bceu tis IN 81 in
tcTvsiing man Of the century. 8, on
the other hand, possesses none nj
ALI Although there j. q Strong pre-
SUMPTION that lie vas a LOndoner,
both the place anu hour Of the birth
Of Benjamin D.srleli are unknown.
The dispute as 10 Weiiington's
birth place has just been Set at res,
by The discovery II Census Iaper,
filed in by the iron dukes Own
h1li, - hich gives Athy as the town
where he fist saw the light. But
there i a curious fatality atOul the
recOuds Of this most interesting
event IN many n life. The person
principally concerned i, as a rule,
urab.e 10 give any evidence. 10 Is
DIM suit 10 be very proud Of human
attainment, in view Of the incou-
tes,ibie fact that none Of Us can re-
member when or where we were
torn. IL i the case generally tina,
those who, next 10 ourselves, were
most cjncernei IN tha. Interesting
event have i0iuoi the majority long
b-.ore the que ton a, 10 Is l0cali y
BECOMES n any public importance.
The world is only anxious rs T. the
birthplace offs g.eat men snI there
are few great men who are no cray
headed. rnu inquiry ia one which,
70 viii be secu, b. cuiiess. 10 take
the poets, fJf instance, We have pre-
scented q suDerihuudaucc % interest.
ing material.
Chaucer speaks Of London a. q
place uf hi- ''-nerndurc" aud calls
himself "A I.oudonOis, " hut We are
aware tia; many % his biegrar hers
have disputed his verlcity In this
respect. IL j. cIriaJ:sly character
site 81 bioggsphers that they believe
themselves T. BE- the only comp tent
persons o decide where \ rnsa was
hon T.r..F.... - .u.. -
tainly claim Million vino was born
Dec. 9, l6OS, at the Spread Eagle
Brgai street, which vas, 4, should
be explained, not n tavern, but his
fathers own house distinguished by
the sign Of his arm0rial b arings.
Alexander Pope was n L0udouer
and WIS born on May n, 1858, year
Of tins revolution, Ia Lombard street,
Of ali paces in the world, his
father being n linen draper, but,
nsverths,ess, man who was
well connected and had amassed q
considerable fortune. Thomas Gray,
again, WAS born in Corahill on Nov.
%, ZIG, his father being, like Mil
toms, a scrivener; ard Cowley, q
grOcer's son, was = LoudOnyr. But
poetry does no, seem h. have been
natural product Of the London clay
The Land Of the Leap Is more
fruitful. Scott was born Ia "AulG
Reek;e" on Aug. Is, III, where
his father vas n writer o. the signet.
Thomson was born in Eduam, Rox-
Jurcshire, on Sept. IL, 1900; while
everybody knows that Burns s-ss
basn in . cottage two milts s1nih O!
Ayr, which Il Sill shown 10 visitors.
IL st1uds at a short distance from
Ailoway Kirk, which Is immortal.
ICED in ssram O'Shanter.D
&r. II. NJ. Stanley l. a Welsh.
man. for he wa horn at Denbigh,
January IS, 1871, and spent the
first five years Of his lie under the
roof OF lis mSiernal grandfather,
with whom he was a great fav0rite,
who, Il u curious o Know, used 10
call the little lad "Fy uhyn dyfodol
I" (''my msn Of the n;ure''l,
though the kindly cid man never
lived to learn how prophetic was his
childish nicname. AfleF his grand
fathers death the boy was called
John HOwlands, and when old
enough he came 10 Americl, where
he was employed by n store-keeper
named Stanley, aud from him he
took the name which will be memoir
able Al long as the world lasts with
one Of the creates; 'msn Of acton"
OF the nineteenth century.-th'ca1o
DdiIy NsiCs.