^ IRON WOR 
ONt»OA,N.Y. 
A Lincoln anecdote is told by a correspond¬ 
ent of the Decatur Sun. While Judge Logan, 
of Springfield, Ill., was Lincoln’s partner, two 
farmers, who had a misunderstanding respect¬ 
ing a horse trade, went to law. By mutual 
consent, the partners in law became antago¬ 
nists in this case. On the day of the trial. Mr. 
Logan, having bought a new shirt open in the 
back, with a huge standing collar, dressed him¬ 
self in extreme haste, and put on the shirt with 
the. bosom at the back, a linen coat concealing 
the bluuder. He dazed the jury with his 
knowledge of “horse points,” and, as the day 
was sultry, took off his coat and summed up 
in his shirt sleeves. Lincoln, sittiug behind 
him, took in the situation, and when his turn 
came, remarked to the jury: “Gentlemen, 
Mr. Logan has been trying for over an hour to 
make you believe that he knows more about a 
horse than these honest old farmers who are 
witnesses; he has quoted largely from his 
'horse doctor,' aud now, gentlemen, I submit 
to you (here he lifted Logan out of his chair 
and turned him with his back to the jury and 
the crowd, at the same time fiippiug up the 
enormous standing collar), wbat dependence 
can you place in his horse knowledge when he 
has not souse enough to put on his shirt?" The 
roars of laughter that greeted this exhibition, 
aud the verdict that Lincoln got soon after, 
gave Logan a permanent prejudice against 
“bosom shirts.” 
This anecdote is told for a fact by the New 
York Commercial Advertiser: “Little Syl¬ 
vester. whose efforts in the “ composition ’’ 
line had previously boon confined to disserta¬ 
tions on the “The Horse,” aud whose bent in 
orthography has recently advanced into poly¬ 
syllables. Being anxious to wind up the school 
session creditably before enjoying his summer 
vacation he concluded to rise above his rather 
hackneyed equine tale. Much to the amaze¬ 
ment of the schoolm’am as well as to the euvy 
of the small boy at the head of the class, Syl¬ 
vester presented the following : “ Mau's mind! 
how illimitable in its range! With it you can 
soar aloft on pinioned wings to the very verge 
of infinity, aud through the dim vista of fu¬ 
turity take panoramic views of uouentity!”- 
He got no further. 
How He Took His Sermons. —The follow¬ 
ing is told of Prof. Tholuck: A new student 
had come to the university, and some time 
after his arrival he called to see Prof. Tholuck. 
After a while the Professor asked him where 
he went to church. “ Oh !” said he, “I do not 
attend preaching. Instead of confining myself 
to the four walls of a building I go out into 
the green fields and under the lofty arches of 
the forest trees. I listen to the singing of the 
birds and the countless melodies of God's 
creatures, where everything that hath breath 
praises the Lord.” The Professor allowed him 
to go on in this strain for a while, aud when he 
had finished he quietly asked him: " But what 
do you do when it rains ?” 
“There is a heavy European hegira this 
year," remarked an old lady with a compact 
forehead and a chin more pronounced than 
ever, since her teeth were all gone. “ 1 wonder 
what a he gira is, anyhow. He must be some¬ 
thing dreadful. I never heard of a she gira ; 
so that shows which sex preponderates in 
wickedness.” “The party of the other part," 
a mild-eyed rather meek-lookiug gentleman, 
who had cherished the lovely creature above 
quoted as his wife for thirty or forty years, 
remarked, on reading the same item a few 
hours later: “ A he gira. eh ? A gander 6crape, 
I s’pose. No ladies goiug. Wou't they have a 
blessed time, though?" Such is life.— Ameri¬ 
can Punch. 
Sabbath School Concert— Subject: “God’s 
Providence." Teacher—“Why, children, the 
good Lord cares for even the little sparrows 
you see hopping about your doors. Cau you 
tell me iu what way he cares for them?" 
“Feeds them,” “Tells them how to build their 
nests," “Gives them wings to fly,” are some 
of the answers given ; when all were done, a 
little mite of a fellow, away in the back part 
of the room, pipes out, “He divs ’em fedders," 
A great deal of poetry has been written 
about "snow-white sails on a shimmering, sun¬ 
lit sea,” but the sails on most of the craft that 
we have observed look as if they had been used 
for circus canvas in a very wet and muddy 
season. There’s no whiteness about them.— 
New Haven. Register. 
“ What are you doiug there with that basin 
of water? Don’t you know you’l wet your 
clean wai6t?" said his mother. "That’s all 
right,” said 6-year-old, as he threw a lucifer 
into the water. “I’m only watching a swim¬ 
ming match." 
A religious old lady, when asked her opin¬ 
ion of the organ of a church, the first time she 
had seen or heard one, said: “It’s a very 
bonny kist fu’ o’ whistles; but, oh, sirs, it’s an 
awful way o’ spending the Sabbath day." 
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Farmer, to hired man ;—What are you trying to do Pat ? 
Pat, (who has just come over). Aud sure, sir; ye tould me to feed him ooru iu the ears, 
but. I can't at all, at all! 
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A certain colonial legion now extinct pos¬ 
sessed at one time au officer who would have 
well passed for own brother to Mrs. Malaprop. 
His son became a victim to the tender passion, 
aud while the spooning was at its hottest, 
S-, “of ours," meets Malaprop pere, aud 
says-: “ Old fellow, is it true that your sou Joe 
is engaged to Miss Dash ? Every one talks so.” 
“It matters but little, Captain 8-replies, 
Malaprop, pompously, “ wbat people talk. 
There are always so many cunards flying 
about that it is difficult to believe anything. 
Whatever I hear I swallow with a dose of salts. 
Joe is not affianced. Miss Dash has certainly 
enameled him—completely enameled him. He 
He has put other shooters horse di combat; 
but no betrothal is on the tapes. That will 
come, I suppose, of course; when, I hardly 
know—but post mortem, I fancy .”—Chambers 
Journal. 
A small, ragged boy entered an oyster 
house in Salem, Mass., and asked : “ Will you 
sell me an oyster for a cent ? I want it for my 
sick mother." “ What is the matter with your 
mother?” asked the man, as he proceeded to* 
fill a can with oysters, thioking he would help 
to relieve a case of suffering. “She’s got a 
black eye,” was the reply The beuey dence ( 
rapidly faded from the mind of the oyster man 
as he put one oyster in a paper bag. 
A toung lover who didn’t understand the 
language of flowers was presented by his 
adored with a flower of the genus papaver. 
“Ah,” he mused, after a few minutes’ contem¬ 
plation, “she refers me to her popy.” But 
before he called on her again he consulted a 
floral dictionary, aud when he learned that the 
poppy is the emblem of stupidity he—well, he 
didu’t call ou her again .—Norristoicn Jlei-aid. 
Ok, say, can you see by the dawn's early light 
What mulcted us much at the moonlight's last 
gleaming— 
The neighbors’ cats mixed in a terrible fight, 
And waking us all with their terrible screaming, 
The flower-beds bare, the yard covered with hair. 
Give proof to the house that the fight was Just there. 
[Brooklyn Eagle. 
Settled. —“Landlady," said he, "the coffee 
is not settled.” “No," she replied, "but it 
comes as near it as your last month’s hoard 
bill does,” aud that man never spoke again 
during the meal. 
"Mamma, is the ridicule very bad to have ?” 
“What do yon mean, Georgie ?” “Why. mam¬ 
ma, Rosy Green says Dora Dow was exposed 
to it three weeks ago, aud it’s high time it 
broke out!" 
If Noah had foreseen the future, and killed 
the two mosquitoes which took refuge iu the 
ark, he would have rendered some of the 
strongest words in the English language un¬ 
necessary. 
" Pat, did you ever see so thin a woman 
as that before ?" “ Thin ?” said the other. 
“ Botherashen! I seeu a woman as thin as two 
of her put together, so I have." 
8aid he, as he stole oue, “ I seal my love 
with a kiss.” And she, suiting the action to 
the word, replied, “ I seal mine with whacks.” 
—Boston Transcript. 
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