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Show BiitTiii'it-vcE-N or riMors 3in. Disi'irrnsAsio viii3iktiu: mar hAW tub LiiiiiT or v vv. .Seven fair cities coutendel for the honor of bearing Homer; but we do not knoa- how many will lc the future ctimjMstu lor the privilege cf giving tilth to Mr. Gladatunr, fays tho London i!uiitkmL The actual nunibtr le, wg believe, at are!it, eleven, ar.d for the lime being Liverpool,! the Unit favorite, itut it wouM le uuwImi to ie-oi-u that coulrovirsj. If,howerr jlr. Glaittoue tullers from unfortun ately possev.iug a reJuuuancy of i irtoittaers, it is a remarkable fact lliat It-jrJ Ituat-oi.tfltU, whom he ad aita Uh eu been l'ie 'mat in ter rating man t f the ce-tury " ou Urn other hand, psasasses none at all. Atliiough tneru ia a stroug pre-iumitijn pre-iumitijn tnul hu was a Iandouer, both the jilace and hour of the birth of IJeoJamin Disraeli are uuknoun. The dispute m to Wellington's birthplace has ju-t been set al rest by tho dateoviry c f a census u;er. filled In by the inn duke'i. on hani.whh.ti gives Athj as the town where he first sau the light, itut there is a curious fatality n'vut tliu r. cords of Ibis most interesting tAeut iu many a life. Tho person pnnci,ally eoiicenienl Is, as a rule, unab'e tugUeaiiy ekleiice. It Is dlul-ult to he very proud of human attainment, In lew of the incou-tetible incou-tetible fait that none of us can remember re-member when or Hiiere Ho were horn. It Is tlie case generally that thoee who, next to ourselves, were mo.,: concerned in that interesting event have Joiuol the majority ion iiefom the H'16-tkm a, to .Ls loc-ill becomes of nuy public Importance. Thu world is only anxious as to the birthi Jace of it great men an 1 tin re are fear great men who are no gray-headed. gray-headed. Tire inquiry itouu whicti, It will be Seen, UeUJlev. To take the root, far in-taiHV, we liave prr-aented prr-aented a Minerabundaiicu of Interest. lne mntrtUl. Chaucer speaks of Iaiudoti aa a piaco of his eiigendiiru" aud calls himself "a I-audouoU," but we ore an are tint many of hit blograi hers have dlsj ute.1 lii veracity In IhU respect. It It carl usly character tttie of bkvrtpbenlhat lliey believe therulv.-3 to lie Ihe only conn etcnt lieruna Ut decide where a mu vrat barn. Iv n ton horfe vi r. can certainly cer-tainly claim Milton who was born Dec 9, 1603, at the Spread Iagle ltrcfl.1 filoa, uhleli was, it should ba explained, not a tavern but bis father's own house dltlngulhed t.y thebignof his Hrmjrial tearing. Alexander 1'npe was a Ijondoutr and was born on May 21, ItW3, year of the revolution, hi IVambtnl street, of all pltees In the wetld, his father being n linen drapir, but, uevrrtlieleea. a man who was well connected and had amasM-d n conshieruble fortune. TliomaiUriy, aaln.wAs born in Cirablll ou Nov. SO, 171G, bis father being, like Mil ton's, a acrivtner; acd Cowley, a grocer's son, wast Londoner. Hut poetry does not seem t liave been a natural proiuct of tlio London clay Tho "Land of the Leal" Is more fruitial. S"ott was born In "Auhx rtcekie" on Aug. 15, 1771, where his father was a writer o'theMntt. Thomson was born in Kdtiani, Itox-buncelilre, Itox-buncelilre, on St-j. 11,1700; while everybody kuo.rs tliat Uurri" w tmrn in a cnttazo two ml'ia south of Ayr, which Is still abonn to v I-1 tors. It standi at a ahort distance from Alloway Klik width is immortal iX3i in "Tain O'rihanlcr." Mr. H. M. Stanlej Is a Welsii man, for bo waa loru at Denbigh, January IS, 1311, and sjteut the flrtt five years of his life unicr the roaf of I Is maternal grandfather, with whom hen ns a great favorite, win, it iscuiloti' to know, used to call the little lad ' Ky niyn dyixlol I" ("my man of th future"), though the kindly eld man ncer lived to learn how prophetic was his childish uloname. Alter hi grandfather' grand-father' death tlio boy was called John IlowUuds, and when old enough he came to Amnio, where ho was employed by a store (teener named Stanley, and from Mm he took the name bf rh tt ill be rasmor-able rasmor-able as long ai Ihe warld lasts with one of Ihegrditeat ' man of ac'.Iou" of the nineteenth century. Utxayo IktttyXcm. |
