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John Brown. Wrought-iron fire dogs from the birthplace of the famous anti-slavery agitator at Torrington, Conn. One of the pikes provided by him for the arming of negroes at Harper's Ferry, Va., October, 1859. Presented by Brown's lieutenant, John E. Cook, to Senator D.W. Voorhees of Indiana.-M.H.R.

President Grover Cleveland. Porcelain plate from his White House dinner set. Presented to the Museum by President Roosevelt.-A.R.

Father Joseph Damien. Crucifix, rosary, holy water shell, medical book, carpenter's rule, and other articles used by him in the leper colony at Kalawao, Molokai, Hawaiian Islands. Father Damien was born in 1841 at Louvain, Belgium. Being educated as a Catholic priest, he was sent to the South Seas as a missionary in 1873. Settling on the Island of Molokai, he devoted the remainder of his life to the lepers. He himself died of leprosy in 1889. His successor is Brother Joseph Dutton, a former resident of Wisconsin.-S.H.

Jefferson Davis. Negro slave-whip obtained by a Wisconsin soldier from his

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plantation at Grand Gulf, near Vicksburg, Miss. He came to Wisconsin in 1828 as a lieutenant in the First United States Infanty, being stationed at Fort Winnebago and then at Fort Crawford. He participated in the Black Hawk War in 1832, and left the State in 1833.-M.H.R.

Col. Ephraim E. Ellsworth. Pencil portrait sketch of himself made in 1858, when he was visiting Madison, and presented by him to N.B. Van Slyke. When at Alexandria, Va., with his regiment, on May 24, 1861, this promising young soldier ascended to the roof of a hotel and tore down a Confederate flag. On his way down stairs he was shot and killed by Jackson, the proprietor of the hotel, who was himself immediately killed by one of Ellsworth's men.-M.H.R.

President James A. Garfield. Porcelain plate from the dinner set in use at the White House during his administration. Presented by President Roosevelt.-A.R.

President Ulysses S. Grant. One of the chairs used at meetings of his cabinet; it was purchased during his first

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