ery centre of its Capitol, and requested her permissionto deposit there his remains with all military and civichonors. She declined. The General, as she alwayscalled him when speaking of him, knowing nothing ofany public tomb, had left instructions that his body belaid in the family vault at Mount… … ABRAHAM LINCOLNS BOAT. f RELIGIOUS- MENDICANTS IN INDIA. 315 the model of the river-boat which Abraham Lincoln gotpatented when he was a member of Congress, in 1847. Itis about eighteen inches long, and is of jied cedar, andNicolay says that the tall inventor whittled it out withhis jackknife. If…
