The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-06-23
PRESIDENTS PRESENTS.
Queer Things That Have Been Sent
to the Chief Executive.
Enough Animals and Odds and Ends
to Stock a Large Museum m-A
Trying Ordeal to I'm
dergo.


If Mr.. Cleveland takes to his home,
says the New York Times, all the pres
ents of one description and another
which have been sent to him since last
November he will have a museum that
will be worth going miles to see. His
admiring fellow-citizens from one end
of the country to the other have been
showing their devotion to him by send
ing him no end of remembrances.
If it had been Christmas eve every
night since November s, and his stock
ing had been hung up every time, it
would have been stuffed more than
full every morning. He has received
almost everything from live stock to
jewelry, and the accumulation is some
thing which cuts considerable figure
when the question of moving is under
consideration.
Many, in fact most, of these gifts
have come from persons whom he does
not know Some of them are of no
earthly use, and some which might be
useful if he were the owner of a dime
museum or the proprietor of stock
farm would be out of place in the white
house OF the spacious grounds about it.
Somebody in Michigan showed his
devotion to the president by sending
him deer about two months ago. 1t
was in healthy condition and had an
appetite that was something enormous
No one knows just what the sender
thought Mr.. Cleveland was to do with
the animal or why he would appreciate
such gift. 1t came by express to this
city, and, as his residence was not built
for the accommodations of such animals,
it was forwarded to his country place
at Buzzard's Bay. Soon after the deer
there came from distant state a large
rooster that crowed incessantly.
1t was good enough rooster as
roosters go, but was not interesting
enough to be classed as curiosity or
useful enough to pay for his 'board and
keep" AS symbol of victory, he did
the best that his lungs and large expe-
rience could do, and at unseemly hours
in the morning has been proclaiming
to large section of Lakewood town
ship that he is on earth and is enjoying
life immensely.
Some one sent to the president a
live raccoon about six weeks ago, and
this, though not considered intrinsical-
ly of value, is said by ''old inha bitants'
to be proper present for president.
1t is said, too, that had not some one
sent live raccoon to Mr.. Cleveland
the precedents of a hundred years
would have been broken. EX-President
Harrison received more than one, and
it is said that since the early days
hardly a president has been chosen
who has not been the recipient of one
or more of these animals. AS a gift to
the president the raccoon is said to
stand at the head of the animal king.
dom, with the oppossum good second.
1t was in June of last year that Mr..
Harrison received his last installment
of oppossum, when an admirer from
Virginia sent him pair, few days
after his nomination at Minneapolis.
The gold-headed cane has been a
favorite with those who have desired
to send to Mr.. Cleveland q token of
esteem. His rack is filed with them
and with canes that are not gold
headed. Canes from the old home
of Thomas jefferson are among
the number; canes of hickory from
men who cast their first vote for ''Old
Hickory Jackson and their last for
Mr.. Cleveland have come in such num-
bers as to indicate that there must be
nearly quorum of the old Jacksonian
democrats still on earth. The supply
of this article which Mr.. Cleveland has
on hand would go long way toward
supplying timber for the annual cane
PUSHES in American colleges next fall
if it were distributed.
4 great many people who say they
voted for him have apparently thought
Mr. Cleveland would be interested to
know how they look. AS a conse-
quence he has large collection of
photographs. They show the voter in
all stages, from the STRIPPING of TWEEN
ty-one to the patriarch Of fourscore
They show him in profile and from a
square front elevation. They show
him in broadcloth and in homespun.
Some of the photographs are of men,
apparently, who resolved in Lincoln's
time not to shave again until demo-
crat was elected president and who had
lost their razors eight years ago. Some
have sent two photographs, one show
ing them with Il clean-shaven face and
one with a beard. Explanatory notes
have accompanied some of these photo
graphs which have depicted degree
of iov at the election of Mr., Cleveland
which the camera has failed to reveal
Some OF these photographs indicate o
hungry CLEAN in the eye, which, taken
with the general contour of the head
is entirely inconsistent with the spirit
of civil-service reform as enunciated
and practiced by Mr.. Cleveland.
Some look as if the original had had
his eye strained at a fourthsolass
postmaster's job so long as to have i'm
paired the sight permanently.
Many persons have attempted to Sc
cure some free and widespread adver-
tising for a business house by making
gifts to Mr.. Cleveland. These are
dealers in hats and other articles who
recognize that note of acceptance
would be valuable. These articles
have been returned in some instances
The presents which have come to
Mr.. Cleveland have included slippers
enough TO last him the balance of his
life If he saw fit to use them, elabo-
rate pieces of fancy embroidery made
by women who have taken great
pains with them, and curious pieces of
bric-a-brac. They are of little value,
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