"The train stopped, and Mrs. Lincoln opened her handbag, and said: "'Abraham, I must fix you up a bit for these city folks.' "Mr. Lincoln gently lifted her upon the seat before him. (She was an undersized, stout woman.) She parted, combed, and brushed his hair. "'Do I look nice, now, mother?' he affectionately asked. "'Well, you'll do, Abraham,' replied Mrs. Lincoln critically." * * * * * A CURIOUS COMBINATION. When the names of Lincoln and Hamlin were painted large on the street banners, it was immediately noticed that a singular effect appeared, as * * * * * ABRAHAM LINCOLN. One of the anagrams upon the President had, at least, peculiar signification: Abraham Lincoln: _O ba! an III. charm_. It was Hamlin who proposed at the Lincoln Club, of New York, that a day should be set aside as "the Lincoln Day." * * * * * THE SNAKE SIMILE. "If I saw a venomous snake crawling in the road, any man would say I might seize the nearest stick and kill it. But if I found that snake in bed with my children, that would be another question. I might hurt the children more than the snake, and it might bite them. Much more if I found it abed with my neighbor's children, and I had bound myself by a solemn contract not to meddle with his children under any circumstances, it would become me to let that particular mode of getting rid of the gentleman alone. But--if there was a bed newly made up, to which the children were to be taken, and it was proposed to take a batch of young snakes and put them there with them, I take it no man would say there was any question how I ought to decide." --(Speech by Abraham Lincoln at New York Cooper Institute, and repeated through Connecticut, 1860.) * * * * * WHAT'S IN A NAME? The Reverend Doctor Moore, of Richmond, derived Lincoln from two words, meaning: "On the precipice verge," and Davis as interpretable as "God with us." * * * * * PAYING FOR WHISKY HE DID NOT DRINK. In 1858, Mr. Lincoln was campaigning in Ohio, and staying in Cincinnati at the Burnett House, it was the meeting-place of the party of which he was the looming light. Some of the younger Republicans (says Murat Halstead, there as a newspaper man) had refreshments in his rooms, and from some stupid oversight, allowed the whisky and cigars to be included in his bill. This raised a hot correspondence between them and the guest, ticklish about his lifelong abstinence principles. Mr. Halstead said that the episode rankled in the blunderers after they had elected their pride President. He must have felt like the gentleman at the inn dining-room who, falling asleep at his meal, had the fowl consumed by some merry wags; then greasing his lips with the drumstick, they left him before the carcass so that the host naturally charged him with the feast.