<h3>"THE MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYED."</h3>
<p>Lincoln's coquetting with the science of Gunter, Jack of all trades
that he was, empowered him to perpetrate a fine pun on the United
States surveyor-general in California, General Beall. This official
acquired in his course so much real estate of the first quality
that on a reference being made to it in the President's hearing,
he observed:</p>
<p>"Yes, they say Beall is 'monarch of all he <i>surveyed</i>.'"
(New York <i>Herald</i>.)
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