Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-22

DID, and just look here. He is so old that
| ali his back teeth have dropped out.
! The other officer explained as gently as
he could that horses were not in the habit
! OF having teeth in the back part of their
| jaws. And the explanation went after a
/ fashion. But though the horse has lived
/ and prospeTed up to date, the lacy always
| acts though she thought she had been
! cheated at getting a horse that did not
! have many teeth as she had.
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"The throwing of banana peels the
| sidewalk is nothing short of a crime. The
| man who made this remark had received a
fearful jolt by falling full length. He de-
scerded with almost lightning velocity, and
| did not recover himself for several min
utes. and was in the process of recovery
| when lie spoke, while portly party famed
! him vigorously.
| yes it is crime, and the Commission
| ers should pass an ordinance severely pun
! ishing the blthering and, l hope, whitening
| idiot who commits such a felony
| Much complaint has been made concern
| ing the practice of careless persons throw
| ing peels on the pavemeGts. and a NUMBER
| of serious accidents have occurred IN the
, vicinity of the push-cart vendors or TINS
! fruit or stands where bananas are sold 1t
! Is no uncommon sight to see several long
! pcels lying on the sidewalk. a nanana-
| peel fair is almost indescribabie. 1t IS the
i some mighty subterranean catapaut Just
| hurls the pavement up at you with cannon
| bali velocity. and it hits you good and
| hard. Then you have three or roar QUIZ i"
OF Juys all in one. Ihen comes hlsi"
"stories of Lincoln are always in order,
said Mr.. Duckstein the picture custodian
NJ the Capitol. when talking to a Star re-
porter the other day. Il came from out
rear his home in Illinois and l find there
are a good many stories about him current
there that seem to have escaped print,
| though every enc vino has a story of any
sort does not hesitate TO attribute 1t to
him.
! Il remember one apt reply that he made
| to, a local buffoon there who was rauylnS
him on his size You know Lincoln was
six feet two, though he seldom stood up so
as to look it, Say Abe said the fellow
| in question, IF man is properly proper
| toned. how long ought his legs to be when
| ne is six feet two?
:. Well replied Lincoln. 4 should say
| they ought to be about long enough 10
/ reach from his hips to the gfound.
There was a rather locally renowned
murder case that he was connected with
| out there too. while he was pracuclnS law
and before ne was ever thought of for the
nomination. You know in those days III
| rOis was almost impasSa BILE in winter either
| by wagons or on horseback on account of
| the black mud. The little German peddler
was about the only link with civilization
[ in the winter months With his pack on
his back he used to get across fields and
| along the edge of the roads and supply the
residents with the small -G-;uries and ne
cessities of life.
| Gle was about the most popular figure in
| the country and was always sure of good
| trade and the best bed and supper wherever
| he stopped for the night One winter the
| little German peddler who supplied that re-
r,g1 n the SDTiQg a body
was found down in the bottom lands, evil
IDENTIFY that of a man who had been muir
! dered It was identified as the missing
German pedder, and the crime was fas-
| tened upon a resident of tn. community.
| Lincoln, who was then practicing law
| in the firm Of Roberts & Lincoln, was as
| signed by the court to defend the accused
| They had woven a chain of circumStantlaI
| evidence about the defendant that was alb
| so!utely irrefutable, and Lincoln did not
care about undertaking the case which
| promised neither money nor prestige How
| ever he was assigned to 1t and had to
| take it. He allowed the trial to run its
| full length without ever making move to
| irnpugn the government witnesses. At the
close he said: May it please the court we
| have only one witness to introduce.
| Bring him in, said the judge.
! Lincoln beckoned, and the little German
| pedder who was supposed to have been
| Now my man. said Lincoln, please tell
| the court how and when you were muir
| dered.'
LAS a matter of fact the peddler had gone
back to Germany for the winter and when
| he returned Lincoln found 1t out before
any one else and kept him hidden till the
| end of the trial. Needless to say, the de-
| PENDANT was discharged"
| 81 saw a case of unmistaken identity, or
| one of the 'itness-of all things If there
| ever was one. today in a downtown res
| taurant," said dner-out last night. who
| has had to frequent chop-houses and like
| establishments since he sent his wife and
| family out of town for the summer. II
/ happened TO be sitting opposite him at a
| table at dinner. He one of those large,
! we'll dressed, pompous. bejeweled persons,
] who are a perfect peace with themselves,
| but not with the world, and the minute he
| sat down I sized him up for a grumbler. He
| was.
| while waiting for his soup he ate all
| of his own bread and calmly reached over
| and appropriated half of mine. l dtdn' I
| mind that because l rarely eat the staff of
! life. When he called for butter the fourth
| time the waiter took tumble and began
to glare and at the fifth glass of water-he
| didn't order any other drinkable-he got
| a little of It over his trousers on account
| OF the way in which his serving man set
| the glass down on the table. But when
he got up came the reason for the whole
I performance. There in unmistakable large
/ letters on the tag on his shirt front for
! he had loosened his waistcoat after taking
| off his coat were the initials p. l. c. and
1 may say it was certainly a case of ac-
| curate Identification"
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! prominent churchman in Washington
| recently received from a friend who Is the
| pastor of parish in n western diocese a
! copy of the parish bulletin in which, among
other abjurations to good Catholics. was the
! following: mo Catholic should be buried
in a"hon-Catholic cemetery except for grave
reasons"