President Lincoln was assassinated on the 14th of April-a day of the month, strange to say, perhaps memorable above all others for assassinations. On the 14th of May (1610), Ravaillac murdered Henry IV. of France; on the 14th of July (1793), Marat was killed by Charlotte Corday's knife; on the 14th of February (1400), our own Richard II. was murdered in Pomfret Castle; and on the same day of the same month (1696), the plot to assassinate William III. was discovered and frustrated; Captain Cook was killed on the 14th of February (1779); and Admiral Byng fell a victim to an unscrupulous administration on the 14th of March (1757); the Duc de Berri was stabbed on the 13th, and died on the 14th of February (1821); on the 14th of July (1861) an attempt was made to kill the King of Prussia; and on the 14th of January (1858) Orsini and Pierri were guillotined for their diabolical attack on the life of the Emperor Napoleon. It is also worthy of remark that Washington died on the 14th of December, 1799.

It has been truly said that the whole world has mourned for President Lincoln as it never yet sorrowed for emperor or king. An American writer claims Lincoln as the best contribution which America has made to history, and, on the whole, perhaps no better contribution has been made. Much as his cruelly sudden end is to be lamented, his friends and admirers must find some consolation in the thought that his great work was virtually accomplished, and

that he did not die too soon for fame.

Rather has

his fame received additional lustre from the manner of his death, and America may count him as her first President who has sealed his patriotism with his blood.

A number of additional sayings of the late President appear in the present edition for the first time. Here and there a joke has given place to one which further search has brought to light, and which, it is hoped, maturer taste and judgment have deemed better worth a place in the collection; and, acting on the advice of many friendly critics, the entire work has been carefully revised and corrected.

WINDSOR, June, 1865.

R. K.

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AMERICAN JOE MILLER.

EARLY RISING IN CONNECTICUT.-1.

THE editor of the Eglantine says that the girls in Connecticut, who are remarkable for their industry, drink about a pint of yeast before going to bed at night, to make them rise early in the morning.

SMALL LOAVES.-2.

A HALF-FAMISHED fellow in the Southern States tells of a baker (whose loaves had been growing "small by degrees, and beautifully less,") who, when going his rounds to serve his customers, stopped at the door of one and knocked, when the lady within exclaimed, "Who's there?" and was answered, "The baker." "What do you want?" "To leave your bread." "Well, you needn't make such a fuss about it; put it through the keyhole."

ONLY THE ELEVENTH.-3.

Ar a christening, while a minister was making the certificate, he forgot the date, and happened to say: Let me see, this is the 30th." "The thirtieth!" exclaimed the indignant mother; "indeed, but it's only the eleventh!"

SHARP SHOOTING.-4

THE following dialogue on "sharp shooting" is reported to have taken place between a Virginee and a Yankee

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picket:-"I say, can you fellows shoot?" "Wall, I reckon we can some. Down in Mississippi we can knock a bumble-bee off a thistle bow at three hundred yards." Oh, that ain't nothing to the way we seewt up in Varmount. I belonged to a military company ther', with a hundred men in the company, and we went out for practice every week. The capt'n draws us up in single file, and sets a cider-barrel rolling down the hill, and each man takes his shot at the bung-hole as it turns up. It is afterwards examined, and if there is a shot that didn't go in the bung-hole the number who missed it is expelled. I belonged to the company ten years, and there ain't been nobody expelled yet."

FOUR POINTS OF A CASE.-5.

AN Eastern editor says that a man in New York got himself into trouble by marrying two wives. A Western editor replies by assuring his contemporary that a good many men in that section had done the same thing by marrying one. A Northern editor retorts that quite a number of his acquaintances found trouble enough by barely promising to marry, without going any further. A Southern editor says that a friend of his was bothered enough when simply found in company with another man's wife.

ADVANTAGE OF BURNING TWO CANDLES.-6.

A CELEBRATED American judge had a very stingy wife. On one occasion she received his friends in the drawingroom with a single candle. "Be pleased, my dear," said his lordship, "to let us have a second candle that we may see where the other stands."

A 4-TUNATE YOUNG MAN.-7.

THERE is a young man in the U. S. army, who was born July 4, at 4 o'clock, p.m., at No. 44, in a street in Boston, is the 4th child, has 4 names, enlisted in the Newton company, which joined the 4th battalion, 44th regiment, and on the 4th of August was appointed 4th corporal, and is now gone to defend his country.