Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1886 — LIVELY HAND SHAKING. [ARTICLE]

LIVELY HAND SHAKING.

President Cleveland Disposes of Four Hundred Callers in Exactly Sixteen Minutes. Washington dispatch. Four hundred and forty-eight persons waited patiently in the east room of the White House to-day to pay their respects to the President. The crowd was almost twice as large as at any preceding reception of this kind. The President appeared ju«t before three o’clock and entered upon his task with such expedition that the entire room was cleared in sixteen minutes. Several persons tried to engage the President's attention with private matters, but they wi re told to call agtin to-morrow. One individual sho »k hands in an agitated manner with one of tl e ushers, and passed the Presi lent without noticing him. He was reminded of h>s mistake by the laughter of the crowd, arid endeavored to return and shake the President s hand, but was borne away by tbe rapidly moving line of people behind him. Thebe are more colleg3s in Ohio than , in France and Germany combined.