The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-04-26
Tall Cora.

We grow "tull con" in America. The
world is beginning to nnd it out. Every ycut
brings the fact more aud more home TO the per
C.pltVe unl digestive faculties OF oil civilized
lmmlni,y. Ik, all great truths, it dill not gain
credit mt once. True, everybody sees it here
with hls own eyes, but not so on the other side
of the water. rne first accounts Of the pro-.
ductiyeness Of our Western p aries were read 10y
our BIokins shamshire farmers with about as
r"uch respect as the fish stories OF the sailor
Siubh. It took even the highest digGitaties OF
the land long while to g, furly up to level
with the actual fact. Even ut this uay there is
mn ear Of com IN the British Museum which On
Joys very distinguished consideration us n
curiosity. 1t divides attention., we do uot say
equally but ceriairry iracrlonolly with the
Nneveh Bull and the great Kohmo0r It is n
perfect maryl TO Out good cousin Johu Ball ;
nnI yet il has but a very simple history, aud 1t
is uut u very extraordinary ear oi corn, after
ali, 1t reached its present distinction some.
thing in this wise:
Ia tue mou,n .! January, 1917, at certain
diunpr party in London, ot which Lord john
Russell, Lord Mnrpolh, and many other distn
gnished persons wcr- present, the conversations
turned upon the IRISH famine and tie rrmart
wvs made by Lord John that he rjojced thn, so
good substitute Ior the native brrndstuiT uui
been found in Indian corn. Turning 10 Mr.
Bates the American prrtnrr 10 the house uf
Barring Brothers, hts lnrd'hip went on to say:
"Nhy, Bates, some of the cobs have n, Ice
10 fourteen rows orgrlu un them y
70 which Mr.. Bates cooly replied:
Yes, my lord, have ,ccn from twenty to
twenty.luur rows ona cob
F." That is II rare Yaukcesln," was the pleasant
retort OF 'h- pr mir und The whole company
shoated in approval.
The burst ui mcuimcnt over, dr Bates
bon sht his peace BY wager of dinner tor the
company all round thai lac could produce such
an ear.
"Dane !" exclaimed lord John, anI the bet
was Ciluchcd.
The dinner passed OF, Mr. Bates ro'urn, d
home, but not entirely at case. He had done u
strange thing for ,hc first zine in his lio he
hud made an engagement he was not ubsulutel,
certain olhis ability 10 fulfill lie had mrssv.
ing that he had rashly pledged the honor OF his
country. 1t hat been long since hG locke upon
an American crib and however patiently lie
winuowed the cornucopiO of his memory, he
found that the cohS Ot his early days had uone
glimmeung, through the lapse of tme among
the things that Were, aud were now SO tar on
that h conlht coun, the rows. lie was. Us
PIOutus would say, rcHactus ad iauitds- in Yan
kre parance, "htrd up' Bu fortune t,vurS
the brave. lthapProed that trwnI of ous
dropped IN, the next lay, at the counting house
oi the Bumgs. MIR. Bates, with Frightening
face, halel him aud made n,wn his difficulty.
You are SAFE was the response; "il | live
20 get home, You shalt have even bigger eur
than yon have promised"
Oar friend t. soon returned and straight
way wrote TO Messrs Rogers & Reynolds, OF
Lafayette, Ind, telling them tbs story, and Big.
ging them, tor the honor OF the country. to come
TO the rescue, anl turtl he tables on Lord John,
showing them what Yankees could do
In the July iolluwng Mr. G. received by OK
press, from Lafayette, a nicely arranged box
containing six ears OF horse tooth corn two OF
which had twenly.nine rows, two thirty y-one
and Two thirty-two, The box was forthwith ad-
dressed to -. Bates, Esq, care of Messrs. Bar.
ing Brother x Co, ship, by Black Bali Line care
of the Liverpool House 1t reached its iosti
nation, and Lord john Russell, first Lori of the
Treasury, third son of The late Duke of Bedford
by the seconi daughter Of Goorsr V,scuunr Tor.
rnsIon aud lineat doscen liant OF Lord Wi liam
Russell, the martyr of liberty, acknowledged
the cora.
the dinner was won. JO.hna Bates did NOT
petpetDte Yankreism, anh the British Mu
senm holds the trophy Yive Ia RepuJEque!