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Show GENREAL GARFIELD. <br><br> The following is too good to be lost even if it is told of one who is so unfortunate as to be a candidate for the Presidency: <br><br> General Garfield is said to have been a good little reader at three years old, and to have had a remarkable memory, retaining almost verbatim the contents of the books he devoured. As a small boy he often annoyed teachers of limited education by the innumerable questions he asked them. When as a youth he taught school in Ohio he was so poor that he had only one suit, and that of jean. Toward the end of the term, it is related in the Cleveland Leader, the trousers became very thin, and while bending down one day he tore one of the knees nearly around. The chagrined teacher pinned in together as well as he was able, and that night made somewhat bitter complaint to Mrs. Stiles, where he was boarding, in regard to his poverty. "Oh, never mind," said the god woman, "you can go to bed and one of the boys will bring down your pantaloons, and I will carefully darn the hole, so that it will be as good as new. When you get to be President you will forget all about such little things as that." |