The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-25
PRESIDENTS. REPRESENTS.
Queer Things That Have Been Sent
 to the Chief Executive.
Enough Animals and odds and Ends to Stock 8 Large Museum A Trying Ordeal to Un-
 dergo.


 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 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 a 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 or the spacious grounds about it.
 Somebody in Michigan showed his devotion to the president by sending him deer about two months ago. It was in a healthy condition and had an appetite that was something enormous. No one knows just what the sender thought Mir. Cleveland was to dc with the animal or why he would appreciate such gift. It came by express to this city, and, as his residence was not built for the accommodation of such animals, it was forwarded to his country place at Buzzard's Bay. Soon after the deer there came from distant state large rooster that crowed necessarily.
 It was good enough rooster as roosters go, but was not interesting enough to be classed as a 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 a 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 'Eold inhabitants to be proper present for president. It is said, too, that had not some one sent a live raccoon to MT. Cleveland the precedents of hundred years would have been broken. Ex-President Harrison received more than one, and it is said that since the early days hardly president has been chosen who has not been the recipient of one or more of these animals. As gift to the president the raccoon is said to stand at the head of the animal king dom, with the oppossum a good second
 It was in June of last year that MT. 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 MT. Cleveland a token of esteem. His rack is filled 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 MT. 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 Mir. Cleveland has on hand would go long way toward supplying timber for the annual cane rushes in American colleges next fall if it were distributed.
 A great many people who say they voted for him have apparently thought Mir. Cleveland would be interested to know how they look. As a conse- quence he has a large collection of photographs. They show the voter in all stages, from the stripling of twen- 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, 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 a clean-shaven face and one with beard. Explanatory notes have accompanied some of these photo graphs which have depicted a degree of iov at the election of MT. Cleveland which the camera has failed to reveal. Some of these photographs indicate hungry gleam 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 Mir. Cleveland.
 Some look as if the original had had his eye strained at a fourth-class postmaster's job so long as to have inn paired the sight permanently.
 Many persons have attempted to se- cure some free and widespread adver- Using for business house by making gifts to MT. Cleveland. These are dealers in hats and other articles who |