Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — Anecdote of President Lincoln. [ARTICLE]

Anecdote of President Lincoln.

I called upon Mr. Lincoln soon after he was first installed in the White House. In the room where Mr. Lincoln granted interviews, etc., were several persons who were waiting their turn to speak with him. I listened to the requests of several men and women, and I saw that very few were granted what they solicited. I had a seat at or near the end of a long table. Mr. Lincoln sat at the other end. Boon after I was seated, in walked several officers of the Spanish Navy to pay their compliments to Mr. Lincoln. By some means they were directed toward my end of the table, and I saw they took me fox the President. Mr. Lincoln saw the same thing, and hastily signaled me to “-go ahead,” as he expressed it, and receive them. I rose, shook hands with each officer, and exchanged a few words with them, which would have been, I suppose, appropriate had I indeed been President The moment their backs were turned I looked to Mr. Lincoln. He was stalking with laughter. 1 thought now 1 had paved the way to the position I had come to ask. I made up my mind to address the President in a new way, and tons add to the hold I already had upon him. So, when my time came, I stepped up to Mr. Lincoln and said: “ Sir, I have seen, the annoyance to which you are subjected by so many and oftrepeated requests for innumerable positions, etc. Now, if von will permit me to shake hands, 1 will try aim smother my desire for a certain position which I had come to ask from you.” Mr. L. jumped up, and, grasping my hand, said: “ Sir, von are one man in a thousand. I am doubly indebted to,you. You have been the means of conveying to those Spanish officers that toe President of-the United States is a very handsome man, and then you do not even ask an office. But,” he added, ** hurry home. You may repent.” It is sufficient to add that I hurried.— Harper't Magmine. ; From 80,000 to 100,000 horns were weekly need in Aberdeen, Scotland, for comb-making until toe importation of cattle teas prohibited. The stoppage of supply has caused great stagnation. There are 800,000 bar-maids in Great Britain.