nto the soulful, pious
eyes of the handsome teacher. She introduced him to the superintendent
as a pious young man from Wisconsin, and the superintendent invited him
to address the school.

It was new business to our friend, but he said he never had anything
sawed off onto him unless he stood it like a man, so he got up, with
the girl's eyes on him, and told the children the beautiful story of the
cross, and how Samson went up in a chariot of fire, and Adam was found
in the bullrushes by a Sunday school teacher, while he was shooting blue
wing teal, and how Noah and Sat Clark built an ark and coasted around
Uoricon lake and landed on Iron Ridge and sent out a canvas-back duck
to see if there was any living thing this side of Schleisingerville, and
how the duck came back with a sprig of wild celery in its bill which it
had found at Lake Koshkonong.

He told how the locusts came down on the democratic party and lected
Garfield, and counseled the children to be good and they would have a
soft thing. He said evil communications corrupted two of a kind, and
they could not be too careful with their pennies, and advised them to
give up the soul destroying habit of buying taffy, and try and lead a
different life, and put their money into the missionary box, where the
wicked cease from troubling, and give us a rest.

He would have gone on all the afternoon, only the superintendent of
the Sunday school told the children that the exercises would close
with "Little Drops of Water," and our friend sat down and wiped the
perspiration from his brow.

The teacher said that his words had opened new beauties to her in the
Scriptures, though he was a little off on some of his statistics. He
told her, by way of apology, that she couldn't expect much religion from
a man that came from so strong a democratic county as Dodge county. This
may be all a lie, but if it is, we got it from one of the best liars of
the State.

A WASHINGTON SURPRISE PARTY.

When Mr. and Mrs. Hayes returned to Washington from the far west their
Ohio friends got up a surprise party for them. They had just retired for
the night, rather early on account of fatigue, when the door bell rung
violently. Mr. Hayes put on his pants, and throwing one suspender over
his shoulder and holding on to it with his hands, he went to the door
and asked who was there. On being answered that John Sherman was there,
Mr. Hayes supposed there was something important, and he open