Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-20
MECHANICS FOR NOTED MEN.
Queer Designations Given to Famous
Perso nages I'm Present and Past Tfmes

Queer Designations Given to Famous
PersonaEes I'm Present and Past Tfmes
No great man has been able to escape the
rate OF the American Presidents, says the
Globe-Democrat. for the funny man has I'm
turn laid hold OF each and given him the
name by which he is often better known
than by his family designation. Samuel
Adams was the American Cato, the Last OF
the Puritans. the Yankee Cromwell; Alex
ander the Great, even In his own time, was
Maceconia's Mailman: Thomas Aquinas
was the Dumb OK; Pietro Aretino was the
scourge OF Princes: At,lia delighted In the
nickname given by his soldiers the Scourgs
OF God; Beauregard was the Little Napol-
con- Boswell was the Bear Leader, In al
fusion to his familiarity with johnson;
Loru brougham was the Foaming Fudge:
BrummeL the Dandy Killer; Wordsworth.
Old Ponder and the Great God Pan: Car
oinai Wolsey's enemies did not scruple IN
denominate him the Butchers Dog: the
Duke OF Wellington was the Iron Duke ana
William Warburton the Literary Bulldog.
voltaire had a host of nicknamex. emon1
the least complimentary being the Literary
Ape: SWIFT was proud of being called the
English Rabelais; James Francis Edward
stuart son of James II. is better known "A
the Old and hts SON Charles is alyayx mem
Sioneo as the Young Pretender; Edmund
Spenser, the poet. was called Mother Huh
bard, and Southey's name was horr1hlx,
punned into Mouthy.
The nicknames given to Shakespeare ara
too numerous to be mentioned. while Scott
had nearly a hundred, the best beine the
Great Unknown. Richelieu was called in
Vulnerable names by his enemies who vent
so FAR as to style him the Pope of the Hu-
e1enots; ana Alexander Pope was the Wasp
Of Twickenham. Pericles was called Onion
Head by his political enemies and Napoleon
III. Rantipole. Moore was the real Bard Of
Erin, Mirabeau the Hurricane and Milton
the British Homer. Martin Luther could
not escape the title of Hotheaded Monk nor
Louis XIV that Of Louis Baboon Even In
his own country John Knox was the relie-
ious Machiavel and Ben Jonson was half
anectionately denominated Rare Old Ben
Hogarth. the painter. was Painter Paw. and
Henry VIII was Bluff King Hal Among
his enemies Gustavus Adolphus was the
anu-Christ among his friends the Lion Of
the North. Oliver Goldsmith was the In
spired Idiot, Goethe the Prince of Poets
and George ~ the Beau OF Princes. To his
friends Garrfck was Little Dayy 10 his foes
the Coxcomb. and Frederick the Great was
Der Ate Fritz Alaric Cotton or the Philoso-
pher OF Sans Souci. according TO the view
taken OF his character. Franklin was the
american Socrates: Charles James Fox the
man OF the People; Queen Anne OF Eng
land, was Brandy Nan; Elizabeth was Good
Queen Bess. Bloody Queen Bess the GLORY
OF Her Sex or the Untamed Heifer Accord
ing TO the opinion of the speaker Di<raeu
was Dizzy. Gladstone In still the Grand
Oid Man. The vocabulary of hatred was
exhausted, however, in the case of Oliver
cromwell. He was the Almighty Nose the
Biaspnemer, the Brewer. Brother Fountain.
Copperface. the Coppernose Saint. GLORIOUS
Villain, Great Ieviathan. His Horseship.
the immortal Rebel the Impious the Inn
poster. King Oliver Man of Sin, Old Holl.
Ga SAUL the English Town Bull, the Wise
usurper and many others. some unfit for
repeution III mans greatness is to b,
names given him. old Oliver must have
been one of the greatest men who ever