Q. What is your age? A. A., being asked how old he was, replied:  If I live as long again, and half as long again, and two years and a half,—­how old shall I be?

Q. Where is your residence? A. I live at home with the family, have often thought that, amid pleasures and palaces, there is no place like home, unless it be a boarding house with hot and cold water.

Q. What is your occupation? A. Taxpayer.  This takes my whole time

Q. Where were you born? A. Having made no minute of it at the time, it has passed out of my memory.

Q. What kind of a house do you live in? A. A mortgaged house, painted flesh color, a front exposure, brick windows and a brass lightning rod.  A good deal of back yard, (and back rent,) to it.

Q. At what age did your grandfather die? A. If he died last night, (I saw him yesterday at a horse race,) he was turning ninety-eight, perhaps he got tipped over in the turn.

Q. Do you hold any official position:  if so, what? A. Inspector of fish,—­every Friday.

Q. Are you insured?  A. I am agent for half a dozen companies.  So are all my neighbors.  My life is insured against fire for several thousands.

Q. Are you troubled with chilblains? A. Quitely.  I soak my feet in oil of vitriol.

Q. Were you in the war? A. I have the scar on my arm which I got in the service.  I was vaccinated severely, while clerk to a substitute broker at Troy, N. Y.

Q. Are you a graduate of any College. A. Yes, of one.  I forget which one.  I only remember that I was one of the most remarkable men they ever turned out.

Q. Have you suffered from the potato rot? A, Not myself.  My uncle had it bad.  He found that whiskey and warm water was a very good thing.  I’ve made an independent discovery of the same fact, also.

Q. Are you in favor of Free Trade or Protection? A.  I can only say that, if elected, gentlemen, I shall endeavor to do my whole duty.  I am.

Q. What do you think of deep plowing? A. In a scanty population, I should say it has a bad effect.  I can recommend it, however, in a sandy soil, where school privileges are first-class.

Q. Does anything else occur to you which it is important for the Government to know? A. Yes:  a hay fever occurs to me regularly once a year.  I have no policy to enforce against the will of the people:  Still I would call the attention of the medicine-loving public to my friend Dr. EZRA CUTLER’S “Noon-day Bitters.”  For ringing in the ears, loss of memory, bankruptcy, teething, and general debility, they are without a rival.  No family should live more than five minutes walk from a bottle.  They gild the morning of youth, cherish manhood, and comfort old age, with the name blown on the bottle in plain letters.  Beware of impositions—­at all respectable druggists.