Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1882 — A Harmless Mayor. [ARTICLE]

A Harmless Mayor.

A Londoner, who lately crossed from Canada to Ogdensburg, asked his hackdriver as to the population and form of government of Ogdensburg. On being informed that it was an incorporated city* the chief officer of which was a Mayor, he inquired: “And does the Mayor wear the insignia of office ?” “ Insignia—what’s that ?” asked the astonished liackman. “Why, a chain about his neck,” explained the cockney. “Oh, bless you, no,” responded the other; “he’s perfectly harmless, and goes about loose.” Boston Sunday Budf/ct. The census returns give 165,000,000 pounds as the amount of wool clipped from 35,000,000 shedp in the United States in the spring of 1881. Ohio and California head the list ih the amount of production