BY THE The Austin library, recently sold in New York City, contained a volume which reproduced in facsimile a Revolutionary poster calling for recruits. This has special interest at the present time. The appeal begins in this dignified way: "To all brave, healthy, able bodied, and well disposed young men in this neighborhood, who have any inclination to join the troops, now raising under GENERAL WASHINGTON, for the defence of the liberties and independence of the United States, against the hostile designs of foreign enemies." And it offers the following inducements to volunteers: "The ENCOURAGEMENT at this time, to enlist, is truly liberal and generous, namely, a bounty of TWELVE dollars, an annual and fully sufficient supply of good and handsome cloathing, a daily allowance of a large and ample ration of provisions, together with SIXTY dollars a year in GOLD and SILVER money on account of pay, the whole of which the soldier may lay up for himself and friends, as all articles proper for his subsistance and comfort are provided by law, without any expence to him." The poster closes its appeal with that old-fashioned but always impressive and timely adjuration: GOD SAVE THE UNITED STATES! Mountain sheep are shy creatures and usually keep to high and inaccessible places, but during the past winter famine drove them to the settlements to seek food. Benevolent persons scattered hay about their places for the starved animals to eat. "Popular Mechanics" prints a picture of a flock of these sheep thus feeding near Ouray, Colorado. Excessive snows that covered up the vegetation on which the sheep commonly live are said to have been the cause of this unusual state of things. The wayfarer in New York City needs to be a linguist in order to read as he runs. A poster displayed in a Tenth Avenue shop window caught the eye with the word HRVATSKA. Printed partly in English, it announced an "Entertainment and Ball in commemoration of Zrinski and Frankopan, at the T. J. Sokol Hall," under the auspices of the Croatian Benevolent Society. The student of human nature or of history would no doubt find material for his studies cheap at the price of admission to this function, "Fifty cents including Hat Check." An English paper produces this pun, ascribed to a German admiral who thus playfully alludes to the submarine warfare "Britannia may rule the waves, but Germania waives the rules!" Somehow this joke has an American rather than an English or German flavor, and it may have been "lifted" from an American "colyum." 66 And here is an example of German humor (which, it seems, still exists in professionally humorous periodicals), from the Fliegende Blaetter:" "Mother (to future son-in-law): 'I may tell you that, though my daughter is well educated, she cannot cook. Future Son-in-Law: That doesn't matter much so long as she doesn't try.' 6 Four Presidents of the United States, according to the Washington "Star," have been Presbyterians--Wilson, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland, and Jackson;" four were Episcopalians-Arthur, Tyler, William Henry Harrison, and Washington; four were Methodists-McKinley, Hayes, Grant, and Polk; three were UnitariansTaft, John Quincy Adams, and John Adams; two attended the Dutch Reformed church-Roosevelt and Van Buren; Pierce WAY attended the Congregational church; Garfield, the Disciples'. The church affiliations of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Taylor, Fillmore, Buchanan, Lincoln, and Johnson are regarded as difficult to determine. con in The flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the "Star-Spangled Banner tained fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, according to a picture of it that appears the "American Printer." The American flag now, of course, shows only thirteen stripes, symbolizing the original thirteen Colonies, while it has forty-eight stars to represent the number of States. At first a stripe as well as a star was added for each new State. Key's "star-spangled banner was originally forty feet long when it flew by continual clipping by relic-hunters. over Fort McHenry. Later it lost ten feet Mrs. Fiske in some reminiscences in the "Century Magazine" tells of an American professor who wrote home from Italy, years ago, about a performance he had stumbled on in an obscure and dingy theater in Venice. "He was really quite impressed, and added graciously that some of our fairly good American actors might do worse than contemplate such sound and unpretentious endeavor" as he had seen in that out-of-theway theater in Venice. The actress whom he had stumbled upon, Mrs. Fiske adds, and whom he thus commended, was no other than Eleanor Duse! Is a railway liable for damages if it carries a passenger past a flag station scheduled on the time-table? The Arkansas Supreme Court decides that it is, if the passenger has notified the railway, by showing his ticket to an official as well as by the purchase of it, that he desires to alight at the flag station. In the case decided the plaintiffs had to walk back about four miles to their destination. The man, who carried two large suit-cases, was awarded $25 damages, and his wife $100. The personal name Gwendolen is fairly familiar and seems to offer no special difficulty as to pronunciation, but most people will probably pause a moment when, on turning the leaves of the telephone book, they come across a similar combination of g and w in the name GWILLIAM, and will wonder at first whether the compositor has not omitted a period after the G. Using Gwendolen as a key, however, the pronunciation of Gwilliam is easily reached. Other similar combinations of g and w in surnames are Gwalter, Gwatkin, Gwinn, Gwynne, and Gwyer. The origin of the phrase used by Lincoln, "Government of the people, by the people, for the people," is discussed in a recent book by O. H. Carmichael called "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address." In a dustcovered pasteboard box found in Mr. Lincoln's law office in Springfield, it says, were discovered two pamphlets by Theodore Parker, containing addresses delivered in 1858. 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