The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-06

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Canova, the sculptor, came naturally
by his profession, being the son of n
stonecutter, and early apprenIiced TO that
trade.
81. Cyr, Napoleon's great Marshal, was
trained To carry peddler's pack, but
laid IL aside for gun and rose from the
ranks.
As boy Thomas Jefferson was fond Of
hunting, athletic sports and music He
was good shot and played well on the
violin.
Napoleon's first plaything was toy
cannon. Late in life he laid, THE whole
course of my life was determined by that
cannon
Cowper was a melancholy child, and
often would sit for many hours almost
motionless, gazing at the landscape be.
fore him.
Garfield was farm.bred boy, and even
when very young aided his widowed
mother by working at odd jobs for the
neighbors.
Thorwaldsen, the sculptor, was first
taught the carpenters trade. From
that he went to wood carving, and thence
to sculpture,
Franklin Pierce was early sent to school
and acquired a COLLEGIATE education lie
had marked taste for atbleticsland mill
tary tactics.
Jeremy Taylor, the divine, passed his
early years in a barber shop. His bust.
ness was to sweep out the shop and wait
on his father.
Hans Christian Anderson was brought
up in his fathers cobbler shop and heard
from the old man the stories he after
wards wrote.
John Adams was born on farm, and
general, he, being the eldest son, was
sent of to college.
Vandyke, the painter, was intended
by his father for a merchant, and much
pains were taken to teach him book
keeping and accounts.
Sachs, the great German poet, serb.
bled rhymes when boy. His father
once classified him for making out a Gus
toners bill in poetry.
Soult, the soldier, spent his boyhood
on peasant farm, and entering the army
rs a private rose from the ranks to the
grade of Field Marshal.
The boy Dickens had the experience
described in david Copperfield." The
work was in many important particulars
record of his own life.
Merat spent his boyhood in his fathers
inn, and his youth in a theological col
lege. He was destined for the Church,
but preferred the army.
The father of Neander, the great
church historian, was carter, and in
early boyhood the historian often aided
his father to drive and load.
Pepys always had a weakness for the
tailor's trade, from the fact that when a
boy he used to gather the scraps of cloth
that fell from his fathers shears,
When a boy William Henry Harrison
showed strong taste for the study of
medicine, but deserted it to enter the
army for the Indian warfare of 1871.
Ascham, the educational writer, was
the son of servant. His first impulse
toward education was given by an acct
dental sight of an educational treatise.
Willard Fillmore was born and raised
on farm He said he never saw n copy
of Shakespeare history of the United
States or map until he was 10 years
old.
Sir Isaac Newton spent his boyhood on
a farm, and there acquired the marvel
Gus powers Of observation that afterward
made him famous as II natural phllOso'
pher.
Oliver Cromwell was the son of a
country gentleman, who was also brew
err, and the little boy was always in
tercsted in the operation of the brew
house.
John Wesley always declared that he
owed all his usefulness to his mother
She was one of the most remarkable
women who ever lived. Her letters are
classic.
Cowley, the English poet, spent his
boyhood in a grocers shop. He often
waited on customers who, in later years,
reminded him of the fact, to his no small
disgust,
Barrow, the theologian, was singular
ly serious child When he was disin-
clined to merrment it was impossible
to make him laugh, such was his self
control.
Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's marshals,
who afterwards became King of Sweden,
was educated in the Office of country
notary, and spent his time in copying
legal papers.
West, the painter, showed his talent at
a very early age, He made sketches in
charcoal before he was 10, and some of
his early work displays great ease in the
use of the crayon.