Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — LIVELY HAND-SHAKING. [ARTICLE]

LIVELY HAND-SHAKING.

President Cleveland Disposes of Four Hundred Callers in Exactly Sixteen Minutes. Washington diygatch. 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 just 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 were told to call again to-morrow. One individual shook hands in an agitated manner With one of the ushers, and passed the President without noticing him. He was reminded of his .mistake by the laughter of the crowd, and endeavored to return aud shake the President’s hand, but was borne away by the nwpKfly moving line of people, behind him. There are more colleges iu Ohio than in France and Germany combined. 'The first Chinese baby born in Philadelphia is a seven-pound girl, __ The Countess Mirafiore, the morganatio wife of the latching of Italy, is dead. The senior class of Columbia College if trying to raise SIOO,OOO with which to build"' a gymnasium. ‘ A Georgia man Bwnllowedhis tongue, and came near strangling before a doctor could get it back into position. An admirer of cx- Senator Conkling has sent-' that gentleman a barrel of ohewing gam, believing it will cure his dyspepsia.