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Show HE HAD AN OBJECT IN VIEW. How lr. Selillt'tiiumi Obtained II U Knnlf nil an An-'liiiMilnglst. Dr. Ileinrich Rchliemann, who died recently at Naples, must bo accorded rank among tho world's foremost archie ologists. Ho was born in 122, at Aa kershagen, Meckleuberg, and his father. a poor clergyman, clergy-man, could give him nothing hut an education. As a lad he read the story of "Troy tho divine," and limner's stirring taleinflnenceilall his future life. From the moment mo-ment lie had mastered mas-tered the Iliad and Odyssey his Kit. II. 8THMEMANN. resolve whs fixed. The first step towarl tho goal of his ambition was the attainment at-tainment of wealth. lie toiled along in many climes as a clerk, a sailor, a linguist, a speculator, a banker and a merchant until 1S08. Then, rich beyond the limits of his early hopes, he began his work of exploration. lis located and unearthed the remains of ancient Troy, lie brought to light -many relics of races long since extinct, and he received honors such as are conferred oa but few men. lie made his homo at Athens, married a Greek woman and lived in the splendid splen-did style of a Hellene of tiio gulden ago. His children v.cre named Andromache and Agamemnon. He rechristened his Very poller Uellerophontes, while the governess was known as Dauae and tho nurso as Polyxena. A fact not generally known is thai Dr. Schliemann w;is a naturalized citizen citi-zen of t he United States. Ho put up tho first fireproof building erected at Sacramento, Sacra-mento, Cal., and occupied it for years at a banking house. |