Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1898 — FIFTY-SIX A DANGER POINT. [ARTICLE]

FIFTY-SIX A DANGER POINT.

Beware How Yon Live to This Age, It Yon Have Genius. Fifty-six years seems to be a fatal age for people of genius, says the New York Times. Among those who have died at that age may be mentioned Dante, the Italian poet; Hugh Capet, king of France; Henry VIII., king of England; Henry IV., emperor of Germany; Paganini, Italian violinist ; Alexander Pope, English poet; George Sala, English orientalist; Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Borne; Frederick 1., king of Prussia; John Hancock, American statesman; Maria Louisa, empress of France; Philip Massenger, English dramatist; Saladin, the great sultan of Egypt; Robert Stephenson, English engineer; Scipio Africanus, Roman general; Helvetius, French philosopher and author; Henry 11., the first of the Plantagenet line; the elder Pliny, Roman naturalist, and author; Julius Caesar, Charles Kingsley, English author; Juan Prim, Spanish general and statesman; Henry Knox, American revolutionary general; Thomas Mifflin, American patriot; Von Tromp, Dutch admiral; Abraham Lincoln, Marryatt, the novelist; George Whitefield, English founder of Calvinistic methodism; Robert Dudley. earl of Leicester, favorite of Queen Elizabeth; Johann Caspar Spurzheim, German physician and phrenologist, and Frederick 11., emperor of Germany.