htly different turn
will say, 'Niagara Falls is only the lip of the basin out of which pours
all the surplus water which rains down on two or three hundred thousand
square miles of the earth's surface.' He will estimate with approximate
accuracy that five hundred thousand tons of water fall with their full
weight a distance of a hundred feet each minute--thus exerting a force
equal to the lifting of the same weight, through the same space, in the
same time.

"But still there is more. It calls up the indefinite past. When Columbus
first sought this continent--when Christ suffered on the cross--when
Moses led Israel through the Red Sea--nay, even when Adam first came
from the hand of his Maker; then, as now, Niagara was roaring here. The
eyes of that species of extinct giants whose bones fill the mounds of
America have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now. Contemporary with the
first race of men, and older than the first man, Niagara is strong and
fresh to-day as ten thousand years ago. The Mammoth and Mastodon, so
long dead that fragments of their monstrous bones alone testify that
they ever lived, have gazed on Niagara--in that long, long time never
still for a single moment (never dried), never froze, never slept, never
rested."

MADE IT HOT FOR LINCOLN.

A lady relative, who lived for two years with the Lincolns, said that
Mr. Lincoln was in the habit of lying on the floor with the back of a
chair for a pillow when he read.

One evening, when in this position in the hall, a knock was heard at the
front door, and, although in his shirtsleeves, he answered the call. Two
ladies were at the door, whom he invited into the parlor, notifying them
in his open, familiar way, that he would "trot the women folks out."

Mrs. Lincoln, from an adjoining room, witnessed the ladies' entrance,
and, overhearing her husband's jocose expression, her indignation was
so instantaneous she made the situation exceedingly interesting for him,
and he was glad to retreat from the house. He did not return till very
late at night, and then slipped quietly in at a rear door.

WOULDN'T HOLD TITLE AGAINST HIM.

During the rebellion the Austrian Minister to the United States
Government introduced to the President a count, a subject of the
Austrian government, who was desirous of obtaining a position in the
American army.

Being introduced by the accredited Minister of Austria he required no
further recommendation to secure the appoin