Miss Braddon, the novelist, was a utility actress in the provinces.

Charlotte Cushman was the daughter of poor people.
Mr.W.O.Stoddard, in his "Men of Business," tells a characteristic story of the late Leland Stanford.

When eighteen years of age his father purchased a tract of woodland, but had not the means to clear it as he wished.

He told Leland that he could have all he could make from the timber if he would leave the land clear of trees.

A new market had just then been created for cord wood, and Leland took some money that he had saved, hired other choppers to help him, and sold over two thousand cords of wood to the Mohawk and Hudson River Railroad at a net profit of $2600.