St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-05
GOSSIP ABOUT GREAT MEN.

Pretty Girls During President
Harrison's outing last
Test the Pres week he stopped
short time at RIchland
identS Cosy Station, 4 small town
i'll Stafford county, Viz
Cot. ginia, says the Wash
ingtOn Post, and as
| soon as it became noised about that the
| president was in town there was great
anxiety TO see him. But the president
| was out for ducks, and not for exhibition
| purposes, and managed to get out into
| the marshes before the people of Rich
| land Station were fully aware of his
presence. However, there was a bevy
OF young ladies, who proposed to make
the most of his flying visit,
and they proceeded to the small
steam launch which carried the
presidential party and induced the good
| natured colored man who was left i'll
charge to allow them to inspect the
craft. They were all nice young ladies
and, as the custodian Of the launch had
some duties to attend to- he allowed
them TO roam about the boat at their
will. They were admiring the cosy Int
tie cabin in which the president slept.
when the most yentureSOme of the lot
proposed getting into the cot. The pro
posal was no sooner made than all the
party was heartily in favor OF it, and
wraps and shoes were hastily thrown to
one side, while each took short turn
on the presidential couch. The novelty
| having been enjoyed by all, the bed was
neatly made up by willing hands, and
the president was none the wiser when
he occupied it that night. The incident
is now the talk of Stafford county.
Tod LincoIn's President Harrison
is having trouble with
Joke on Old the White house water
supply, says the Wash
Abe. ingt0n Herald. Mr. Lin
coin, a short time Oc-
fore his death, had trouble of the same
kind. The only water supply which
the president't family then lad was
drawn from Il we'll which stands i'll the
grounds q few yards from the southeast
corner OF the executive mansion. Here
is copy OF card which Mr.. Lincoln
addressed to William Dickson, who was
then the chief of the fire department.
and who is now the representative of
the District of Columbia on the Demo
cratic national committee:
Will Mr.. Dickson, chief engineer of
Hibernia, please pump the water out Of
certain we'll which Tod will show?
"A. LINCOLN.
Feb. 81, 1865.
Tod was Lincoln's mischieyous young
son Thaddeus. The explanation of the
word is this: Tod was very fond of
travelling with the fire engines, and,
fearing that unless he was kept away
some accident might happen, President
Lincoln and Mr.. Dickson put their
heads together and Tod was strictly
prohibited from frequenting the engine
house any more. Tod immediately
began to devise plan to make
himself Indispensable to the engine
company. The plan he adopted was
to poison the White House water sup
ply, and then make known the fact.
As soon as the poisoning became known
President Lincoln wrote the above card.
and Tod was brought into service to
help and direct the engine company.
When the we'll was pumped out under
Tod's directions great many things
which the chemists would call foreign
bodies, were found in the we'll includ-
ing some half dozen dead cats with
bricks tied to their tails. Tod carried
his point, and the well was cleaned out
i'll time to prevent the poisoning of the
president. but not i'll time to prevent his
assassination few weeks later.