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Show Secretary Seward's Opinion, I heard a story of William H. Bewnrd the other day which I think is a now one, I am not certain, but I am impressed with a conviction that it comes from Miss Olive Risley Seward, an adopted daughter of the late Secretary Seward, whose Bohemian literary salon is one of the most charming places to which one can have the entree at the national capital. cap-ital. It was at the time when there was great agitation of the removal of the capital, cap-ital, and all Washington was alarmed. One of the scared ones said to Secretary Seward, "Mr. Seward, do you think the capital will be removed from Washington?" Washing-ton?" "Yes, I think it will," was the re-ply. re-ply. "But where to Chicago?" "No." "What? Not to St. Louis? Well, where then?" "To tho City of Mexico. That will probably be the center of pop-ulntion pop-ulntion of the United States one of those days." Pittsburg Dispatch. |