Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-07-12
RAMBLER'S NOTE BOOK.
SOME STRAY SHEsvEs FROM the
VEINS HARvEST or NhWy.


egrina''ons Around the Champion City
springiieid's Prestige from tho Conven
uon - An Ingenious Grotto A usefu
Present Literary, Social, Artistic An,
General Notes.
gentleman connected with the busines
department Of Cincinnati paper, and who's,
business calls him to every part OF the State
remarked, the other day, OF Springfeld's pro
gress:
"The two State conventions held at Spring
field gave the city a wonderful uotoriety
throughout the State, and the boom she re.
ceived ought TO be worth 81 100000 to hei
in the next ten years. Everyw | gc
throughout the State the name OF Springfield
Is on the tongue Of every one. If the popu.
lation Of the city had been doubled in a .in.
gle night, the increase OF Springdeld's pres.
tige on account OF the convention could no,
be greater. In places where Springfield was
little known, her name is now familiar
sound. The Associated Press and 'conven.
ton specials have 4 lso advertised the city in
every corner of the United States, and every
reference to the Springfield convention,
as the Republican convention 10 called,
makes the city still better known. Springfield
Is rapidly looming up as political center
In these days a Springfelder don't have to
explain that he lives in a place twenty miles
from Dayton, and eighty miles from Cinein.
natl. Now Dayton men explsin that they
live in a town near Springfield, and Cincin-
natians locate their "bure" as town eighty
miles from Springfield, o. They are conse.
quently understood at once"
Armed with the horseshoe presented to
him by j. Ryder the Dayton blacksmith, Dr.
Leonard ought to be able to do some pretty
hard kicking for the Prohibitionists in the
approaching campaign. OF course by this
we do not mean to compare the Doctor to a
-. No, certainly notl But we had better
stop, for the more We write the worse the
item gets.
Come up and see me on the 4,h Of July
wrote a Springfield servant girl to sister
artistic Of the dish cloth 10 Xenia the day be-
fore the 4th. at has been decided 10 hold
the 4th in Springfield this year, and hear
they won't hold it in Xenia at ALL" shs had
an idea that Springfield had bsgged the 4th,
pretty much as the conventions were CAP
tured.
The average Springfield young man takes
to manufacturing as naturally as q duck to
the water. The latest addition 70 our manu-.
featuring interests Is the Hardware
Specially Joint Stock Company,
incorporated by Messrs. George Emery,
J. Guiltord White, Charles r. White, Charles
Stout and Charles Pslton. The company
will do their manufacturing in the .Etna
block, on West Main street. The line OF
goods manufactured will be dish washer,
clothes-line stretcher, patent mail box, hot
pan litter, bird cage bracket, and numerous
line of hardware specalties. Most Of the ar
ticles are the inventions OF Nj. Charles Pei
ton, the inventor, of this city.
Mr.. H. II. Moore, proprietor OF Moore's lime
kilns, west Of the city, had the good fortune
to win, on ticket $50, the beautiful $50 lamp.
rallied of by railway men for the benefit OF
Charley Moore, the conductor who was killed
not long ago at Marysville. The railroad
boys say that they never saw a railroad man
win an article ratified for in railroad circles.
few tickets are sold TO outsiders, and the
lucky number is almost invariably held by
one of the latter.
"Hear about the washout?" asked
baggagemaster Layton OF a reporter the
other day. NO." said the latter, excited
ly pulling out three lead pencils and a fat
note book. Where was in Anybody hurt2
What line was it ou2'
"Nobody hurt" was the calm response.
"lts right up here, on Mrs. Nulligan's clothes
line" The reporter collapsed with loud
report.
Mr.. Swee'zer, the we'll known pension eI.
aminer stationed In this city, has received
notice of his re-appointmsnt from Wash
ington.
The locusts, having finished their soulful
symphony, seem to have about disappeared.
In the orchards east Of the city, 1t looks al
most as if fire had swept through tho orch
ard. The young tender shoots OF the trees
are withered and dead where the pests bored
them. Many young trees are entirely ruined
and the damage Is very considerable, though
not as great as was feared. There 10 hardly
one to be seen now. however, their task Of
deposi.ing their eggs being about accom-
plished. Millions were devoured by the
English spa rows, who lived high during the
reign OF the locusts.
Two prairie dogs are exhibited In the win
dow OF the Office OF Mr.. W. X. Linn, in the
Arcade, and attract much attention. They
look like cross between rat and squirrel
and are consequently call ed prairie "dogs."
There seems TO be no end OF good stories
on the"Prohbs." during their late convention.
An employe of Kiider's restaurant states that
several of the cold water brethren went Into
the dining room to get supper. Among other
things ice tea was served 10 them, In tall
glasses with ice and sugar in 1t, and a straw
in each glass. The Prohibs. looked suspi-
ciousy at the glasses then at the waiter and
then at each other. The dark color OF the
liquor, and the straws made them confident