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Show - PRESIDENT GRANT AND A I WIDOW. , In the patent office there is a veri t pretty widow, recently appointed to . clerkship. Fato has not been gone to her in every way, and now, crown 1 ing all other misfortunes, her hcaltl: f is failing; a terriblo cough haunts her, sometimes producing hemorrhage, which alarms everybody cleo nuin j than the plucky little women herself. As pretty widuwa will always have beaua in abundance, our little widow often drives out witli her admirers, and Saturday afternoon she started ti. f ride to Arlington. ( I'm not sure it , was Saturday, but wo'll "play" il , was.) Reaching the Long bridge over the Potomac, that terrible cough ; began; there waa no stopping il; ai tho poor little lady was very weak i when the bridge waa passed. There i is a little hostelry there, and stopping his horses, her friend gave her the reins and rushed into tho house for lemons, whiskyanything to stop that cough. Still Bhe coughed, tho reiiiB wero slipping from hor nerveless fingers, the horses were restivo, and alio was looking with weak h-rror for her friend's return, when President (irant c.vino driving to tho scene. His quick oyo "comprehended "com-prehended tho munition," ho threw his roins to his rooni, leaprd froui his buggy, and, telling our widow to givo herself no uneasui 8, tho president presi-dent of tho United Stairs stood then-and then-and held tho horses until tho widow's astonished escort came to tho relief. Meantime the bright blood was dying the lady'M bandkurchiei--niulo looks of gratitudo wero all sliO could give. Tho president ejaculated, in moro lender tones than one would think, "What if my Ncllio should over suller not" Then, giving hor his card and bidding her to come to him for any service bo might render, our ailent president drove ofTovnr tho bridi;o. Anna II. Hunted iu Jiurliiif(n Jlawk- |