Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — HOW THEY BEGAN. [ARTICLE]

HOW THEY BEGAN.

Edison was a telegraph operator. P. T. Baknum kept a country store. Henry M. Stanley was a reporter. Justice Miller clerked in a drug store. Garfield walked the tow-path of a canal. Gen. Grant was a tanner and a farmer. Gen. N. P. Banks began life as a factory boy. Mark Twain was employed on a Mississippi River boat. Senator Stanford was a country lawyer in Wisconsin. Blaine and Cleveland were teachers in schools for the blind. Gladstone has had no occupation but that of a student and politician. Ben Butler once supported himseft by making chairs at 30 cents a day. The Rev. Dr. Meredith, who, next to Dr. Talmage, preaches to the largest audiences in Brooklyn, was a sailor boy., Gold is very sectile—that is, can be cut and shaved with A knife, like a piece of wood or horn, while pyrites and other worthless minerals will crumble under tho knife-blade like a lump of sugar.