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Show The r ittlk brown cuttage in Springfield. Spring-field. Illinois, in which Mr Lincoln lived helure he went to Washington ntill remains nearly as lie iefi it furniture and all. It is related that it had at first but one etnry, and thai Mrs. Lincoln Lr many years uoavn ingly soaxed her husband to raise tne roof. Al length me seized an jpj.ui-tunity jpj.ui-tunity when he wmb atieudinK nnir; m an adjoining town, t-i oinplny workmen work-men and have the ball-story ' added, windows put in, paint pul od. .11 eompleled save pymal of billt. before bis reiuro. Coming up tbf street, he coaonrebended the nltuatinD at a gtancf(bat feigning bewilderment and prateurhug not to recognize the old place, he walked pant as if earchlng lor home, till hi wife, who was watch tag behind the shu tiara, called after him, "A brim ( A brim 1" |