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Show BITS OF HISTORY. Curious Fact About Swrarlnp Vice I'ros-ltlcnts I'ros-ltlcnts Into UKIce. More than once in our history the vice president has been sworn and inducted in-ducted into office sooner than the president, presi-dent, says the St. Louis Globe Democrat. This was the case of John Adams, who took the oath and became president of the senate and vice president of the United .States nearly a month before Washington's first inauguration; itwas the case with Millard Fillmore, who, it is said, took the oath on Sunday, March 4, falling on that day of the week in 1S49, while Taylor, the president-elect-, being a rigid Sabbatarian, did not permit per-mit himself to be sworn until Monday. It is said tnnt in 1377, w'hen March again fell on Sunday, Wheeler, tho vice presidentelect, took the oath on that day, while. Hayes, having religious scruples, put off the matter until Monday. Mon-day. Of these oases, however, the most peculiar was thatof 179, w hen, the government gov-ernment having just been put in operation, opera-tion, presented the curious spectacle of a vice, president without a president At the time, however, the matter seems tO'havo attracted little attention or remark, re-mark, and is now remembered only nsa historical curio. A Iluty llco. If there is anything more ilaagcrous-yl ilaagcrous-yl industrious than a woman let loose in the spring with a pot of green paint it is the small boy who owns any apparatus ap-paratus for making his mark. Not long ago some misguided parents furnished fur-nished an enterprising urchin with a tencil stamp and ink pail which would print the family name. No special warnings on the subject were considered consid-ered necessary, but one fatal day the mother of tin lad made a startling discovery dis-covery in her handkerchief box. Every handkerchief she owned luul a huge purple signboard stamped conspicuously conspicu-ously on one of its corners, the work, of course, of the small boy and the stencil. She had not the heart to bestow be-stow too severe a reprimand oh the infant in-fant artist, so now at intervals, wlien she nourishes a dainty embroidered mouehoir with a great inky stain on its bonier, she has to submit to this harassing exclamation: "Wasn't that nice in me, mamma, to print your name, so big on all your handkerchiefs?" - Louisville-Courier Journal. |