At the early age of six weeks our illustrious victim made her first appearance as a public speaker.  This was at Faneuil Hall, Boston.  She was supported on that memorable occasion by a young and fascinating lady by the name of ANTHONY (SUSAN.) SUSIE prophesied then, it will be remembered, that the fair oratress would yet live to be President of the United States and Canadas.  Miss LOGAN, with her customary modesty, declined to view the mysterious future in that puerile light, gracefully suggesting, amid a brilliant outburst of puns, metaphors and amusing anecdotes, that SUSIE distorted the facts.  Miss ANTHONY, under a mistaken impression that this referred to her peculiar mode of keeping accounts, offered, with a wild shriek of despair and disgust, to exhibit her books to an unprejudiced committee of her own sex, with WENDELL PHILLIPS as chairwoman. (There is manifest inaccuracy in this account, though, inasmuch as Mr. PHILLIPS was not yet born, at that time; but we of course give the story as it is related to us by eye-witnesses.) Mr. JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG, who was in the audience, rose and said that Miss ANTHONY’S explanation was entirely sufficient, and that she might now take her seat.  The lecturer then proceeded to discuss her subject, “Girls.”  She said—­

However, this is not a newspaper report, is it?

Soon after this, Louis PHILLIPPE invited Miss LOGAN to visit Paris.  He represented that he should consider it an honor at any time to welcome the beautiful demoiselle to the palace of the Tuileries.  He remarked in a postscript that his dinner hour was twelve o’clock, noon, sharp, and that his hired man had instructions to pass Miss LOGAN at any time.  Accordingly, our syren departed hungrily for the capital of the French.  Her career in Paris is well known to every mere ordinary schoolboy:  therefore, wherefore dwell?  Madame DE STAEL’S dressmaker called on her.  A committee of strong-minded milliners solicited the honor of her acquaintance.  GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN proposed an alliance with her for the purpose of hurling imperial jackassery from its tottering throne.  Other honors were conferred on her.

Returning to her native motherland in 1812, she once more resumed her career as a public speakeristess.  How wonderful that career has been, does not the world know?  If not, why not?  She has lectured in 14,364,812,719 towns between San Francisco on the one hand and California on the other.  Upwards of fourteen million Young Men’s Christian Associations have crowded to hear her thrilling eloquence, and lecture committees all over the land have grown fat and saucy on the enormous profits yielded by her engagements.  Country editors, who, before speculating in tickets of admission, were without shoes to their feet, have been suddenly converted into haughty despots and bloated aristocrats by their prodigious gains.  And Miss LOGAN herself is said to be worth $250.

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