Fog Horn Corner

The Lansing KepubUcan gives the following description of some of A. J. Sawyer'S former experiences at Lansing, when he had Ed. Allen to help him along: The last session in the okl capital in 1877, was made fatnous in history, song and poetry, by the sonorous voices of Hon. A. J. Sawyer and Hon. E. P. Allen, colleagues from. Washtenaw county. Their resounding eloquence kept the University and the Normal scfeooi prominently ia the ears, if not the miads, of their fellow members. 2STor where they backward in sonorous discussions of other great quostions of state erait. The corner of representative hall where they sat was dubbed "Fog-horn corner." They were returned in 1879, the iirst session in the new capital, and located themselvesin the northwest corner of the hall. It soon became evident that they had " got their second wind "and vvould raake the new "Fog-horn corner" as famous as the first. And they did. And now Sawyer comes back, with a great big hankering in his bosom for his old seat. He would have grabbed it as soon as the votes in his district were counted, but the act of 1893 says liim -'nay." He is now courting the lickle goddess of fortune and praying her to guide the small boy's hand to his ball, early in the drawing, so that he m iy plant himself in the old corner before some one else pre-empts it. Jle says he would feel unnatural in any other place in the house. If the members do not wish to lose a good thing this coming session, they should let liim have his old place, for it wil] iï 11 his soul with an inspiration that will make " Fog-horn corner " more famous than ever."