Abraham Lincoln's stories are quite as
much a part of his Administration as Hie
Kmancipaliou l'ps'laniation. President .rant
told a story eloquently when he was "un-lH-nt,"
but he was not in the habit of telling
them promiscuously. President Haves dot s
not originate stories as Lincoln diil, but
often quotes them, diaries Summer never
knew what a joke was. Humor was en
tirely absent from his nature. Morton en
joyed stories, and told them sometimes, but
he was always a very busy man, and when
he wasn't in lied, suffering torture iudis
cribable, be w as generally at w ork. (.Jen.
Sherman is an inveterate story-teller, and
you can catch him at army headquarters,
surrounded by his stalT, relating his expe
riences, of which lie seems to have liad an
unusual amount of an amusing character, or
describing some funny sight be has seen, or
some funny thing he has heard. lie lias a
very keen sense of the ridiculous, and is
graphic in description, and very successful
in mimicry. Vice-President Wintrier en
joys a joke as well as any man in Congress,
but seldom perjietrati-s one. Conkling is
inimilable when he chooses to be. There
is no man in ptihlic life who has conversa
tional power equal to his. He can lie in-t.-n-sting
on any topic that may enter a con
versatioti, and when lie fairly lets himself
out, as he ilid in Knglaiul a year ago last
summer. icople stare at him until they are
overcome by fascination. IJIaine is equally
accomplished, but dia-s not display himself
as Conkling does on stated occasions.
Blaine is more genial as a common thing,
but not so pyrotechnic in his displays. ( Jen.
