Show FREAK BETS blADE to ON DIVERS EVENTS J I Indiana Man Wagers J His Wife Against House and Wins t UP AT EACH UH Mi la nate Gathers In Iu Half Hair Million 7 With Willi 11 Aid 1 of If Colored In v York tJ A A 1 hurt time ago Jo there thero lied died In NewYork New NewYork I York stale an all who during IIi the Harrison Cleveland camS campaign cam cam- S lIf t. t liia hh hare h c on Cleveland C lh The wH found he had no use uie for I he tho vehicle so o ho he sold old It back to Its original owner 1 for tor r a. a a amere mere mCle song song- Man Many other winners In that election I rode gayly aly In wheelbarrows wheelbarrow's at the expense of or th the losers' losers brawn and nOlI I of or mind mild Still other men J shaved shave oft off their thel imperials and antI sideR side sideboards R 4 boards hO other men shaved only one side Ido men appeared In public with J half hair hall cuts CUls other men proud of the fine line lines of their smooth shaven S faces grew hush bushy whiskers other men climbed telegraph poles and fell tell c. c of off anti and broke their bones Other Othor men went without their thell drinks for a year other men abstained from vegetables f I a n year Again during the Bryan McKinley excitement man many ft freal oak bets were 1 mm made by hy strong partisans and ami 11 by oth oth- 0 ers CIt hen Bryan DIan was nominated Gen- Gen oral J J. J Madison Drake of ot Elizabeth X 1 1 took tool a n solemn vow that he wouldn't have his locks shorn until the Nebraska ehla Jm candidate sat Eat at in the f p pi re evidential chair He made great reat f preparations to celebrate the Bryan victory invited the public to join jolt him In the demonstration n and antI proposed cl to load all ail good Bryan Dryan men mon through the streets lit In paradox n UP lIe prop proposed to 10 ride on a snow white charger wi with h the stars stant and stripes wrapped around his shoulders Hl HI Hll hair Is still grow row row- ing South Dakota furnished a romantic bet beL on the Bryan McKinley y election John If H Chat o Chuc c and T T. F P. loved lo the same widow and the widow indicated no preference Davis was wasa a Bryan man and antI was wag an advocate of McKinley So they agreed to let lot the result sult of the election decide their claims won the Wp wager el but the perverse widow ma made e Chase Chae break brcak faith with his rival rl Bets Wife Ife in 1 t House Perhaps the stran strangest ost wager was of or tho the campaign was teas made maric h by William lIlIam i Corbus and GeO George GeOe e Darnell Barnell of Elk Elk- h I ml 1411 Corbus overheated with f frith In McKinley offered to bet het hits hUs wife on his Judgment jUdg Darnell Barnell snapped him up at al once and the two men went to a lawyers lawyer's office omee and 31 drew up a n nf f formal 1111 il I agreement nS L as follows This memorandum of or a agreement made and entered Into this 1st cIa day f of nf f October by hy and between n William Corbus party part of the first part It and George M M. Darnell Barnell party part of or ortho tho the second part lart both of the county of Elkhart and the thc state slate of or Indiana that the thc party palt of of the tho first part covenants cotenants and agrees In iii Inconsideration consideration of or the covenants here h hereinafter lc stipulated and agreed upon to toI I Immediately apply to the courts of the county of Elkhart for tor a bill of or divorce orco for the legal c al separation n of himself and wife wire and pay all expenses in event ent William Jennings nl Bryan an In la elected to the presidency of the United States Stales and procure a marriage marriage mar mar- license for tho the party of ot the second second second sec sec- ond part and his wife and pa pay forthe for tor forthe the services er of or the minister or magistrate magIstrate mag mag- istrate performing the marriage ceremony cere cere- mOil mony And the party purt of or the second part covenants and agrees as in consideration of the premises to convey and warrant war war- warrant rant the house and lot now owned and occupied h by him hint to the thc party part of oC the first part provided William McKinley Mc Mc- Kinley Is in elected president of the United States the consideration of or which house home and antI lot Jot is In witness whereof the parties hereto have e hereunto set seL their hands and the seals the day above e written And AmI Mr Mv Cor Corbus bus agreed to tho the terms of or the thc strange wager However er Barnell Darnea Darnell Dar Bar nell nea failed railed to win her nut But hero Is IB the most gorgeous r on nit record 1 Henry Harley the oil 01 man once once won b by a aIrn Irn pl pip pip- wager with a Sl friend named Phillips on the el up or nl or orO doWn On O n game genie This was waR a favorite sport among the of ot Fifth FIrth avenue Frequently they bet bel 10 10 20 or of as aR high as that the first nc negro passing would go up or go o down the avenue Harley Marley bet ger up at a head The Jud Judges and anti referee went to the window and began began began be be- gan to count Strangely l eno enough h. h there seemed to be an unusual number number num num- ber her of colored men and women on the tho avenue R and in Jn twos and threes they were strolling downtown j By ny 11 o'clock men women and children had gone downtown Phillips I wits was highly elated and antI Harley was I thunderstruck Phillips i ahead of or the game ame began to order up UI the champagne Between 11 and 1 o'clock the downtown movement of colored people ended but hut at 2 ii o'clock I there came camo the strains of or a band from frou I far down the thc street and presently a aI I negro followed by an nn army rm of ot colored organizations p paraded paraded par par- r- r I trice past pant the Ule club The Thu counters I worked desperately atel to I keep tabs on ontie I HJ tie the numbers and although th they y missed nany persons the they agreed that at least had gone one up th the avenue and only had gone down Consequently Harleys Harley's winnings amounted to Phillips paid i without a murmur but hut he never novel took tool part hart in a n g er gamble s again I An Englishman named Whalley I once made a unique wager wader of tiC several so thousand pounds He bet that in twelve months he could walk from Calais to Jerusalem play at fives cs i against the walls of or the holy city and ancl walk hac back to Calais He won his bet bot t and md ever after bore the nickname of J Jerusalem Whalley The marquis of oC Q een berry also figured Us In a a. curious little proposition He Hel l wagered cled 1000 pounds that ho could send a letter fifty miles In an hour without use of a carrier arTler pigeon or 01 steam railroad Old Q won the monc money He lie stationed two dozen cricketers sixty yards ards apart and then handed one of or them a a. cricket ball ed was a note The twenty four mon men passed parsed the tho ball around their circle sixty times and finished the thc fifty IUt miles a few rw minutes within the specified time |