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Show NAPOLEON AT THE HEAD. Conceded to Have Been the Most Famous Fa-mous Man That Ever Lived. Napoleon Is tho most famous man who has tover lived, says Prof. J. Mc-Keen Mc-Keen Cattell of Columbia university, In tho Popular Sclcnco Monthly. Prof. Cattell has taken tho six principal prin-cipal encyclopedias In tho . world American, English, French and German, Ger-man, and mado out a list of tho 1,000 famous men and women who aro given tho most space. As a result of his long labors, ho has found that Napoleon heads the list, Shakespcaro comes second, Mahomet Ma-homet third and Voltalro fourth. Georgo Washington, tho first American In tho list, Is number nineteen. nine-teen. Tho other Americans on tho roll of fame aro mentioned in the following fol-lowing order: Penn, Lincoln, Franklin, Jefferson, Grant, Longfellow, Prescott, Chan-nlng, Chan-nlng, Sherman, Emerson, Madison, J. Q. Adams,- Cooper, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Fulton, Sumner and Monroe. |