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Show ARTISTS AND TRADESMEN. Is the Rrlr lr Ihe Former Had a Hlrnccle tn Live, Among the artft resident In (41na gow who lud acfjnirrd before IH40 aonie what of a repniatlon tlruliam Oilbort, Horatio M icculloch and D.unel Maniro are the moat widely known to general fame. To these men fell the prixna of tho prof pm ion inch aa they wen at that time. Price wore then on a acitle that would not ploaio the popular landHcao and jKirtrntt paintera of toilay. Thu atualler men not very nutner rma, it la truo, and yet eomo of them ui'Mt deserving hnil a tolerably hard rtrugglo for eiiti nee and hud to oko out their income by other work than tlmt of regular picturn painting. Mitc-cnltoch Mitc-cnltoch and Mucnee thenmelvea mude money in Ihoir yonng-rdnya by decorating decorat-ing the liila of auuITlKtieji. The uvemgo pointer wan fniiueiitly pretty much uf a lioheminn, living from hand to mouth and glad to clear off a tradoeruau'a bill by paint inn the Kirtraita of the worthy hop keeper and hi wife. One of our beat known artlnta tell how on occasion in the long y ara ago when liowaa engaged at a aider a houae on the purtraita of a auuctiaitlul clergyman clergy-man and hta family the dinner hour arrived, ar-rived, liowaa ja;tcnnaliereil "gtudid" enough to be anned to tuka a plar-o at the tublr, but the mimrea of the homui kmdly aont to the parlor, where ha woa working, a pate of atnwed rhnlwrb to kwp him from wearying while Ihe family fam-ily fed, Muguxme of Art. |