Show blondin a A niagara correspondent of a new york paper says that blondin who is reported to have crossed niagara falls man times this summer on oil a tight rope performing various gymnastic marvels marvela on the slender thread above the roaring waters is is a purely imaginative being brought into existence by a bright niagara barkeeper barkeep bar keep keeper er this corres ponde n t says As I 1 have away from home during the summer bummer I 1 think I 1 am a tolerably cre dable witness and I 1 must there therefore forel assure you that the whole of this wonderful series of stories has grown out of a bet made by a person u well ell known 1 in this town that he could bring more people to niagara in two weeks thin than the falls had bad ever brought here in n as many months how the rope ing dodge occurred to him I 1 dont profess to know out but he be selected blondin as the name of his hero because there was a blondin once in this country with the gravels ravels a very good gold rope ropedancer dancer now retired and living somewhere in in the country of savoy who C could id ot of course hear of the story in time to contradict it anything funnier or more foolish than the fales faces of 0 the crowds ellich have succeeded each other down about tile the rails falls on each successive day announced for the feats you never n e er saw and abi hotel have reaped a golden bar harvest vest but you will observe that not a single individual has ventured in any of th the letters from niagara to say that ani be e saw sato blondin d do 0 any ay iy of these things our local editors S and nd others of course enjoying the acke have joined in in it and a very good joke juke it has been certainly but it seems to me it ought to be regarded now as played out whether any mr de lave exists or has crossed the be genessee Gene falls at rochester 1 I dont profess to know it is is very possible that a thing may have been done however lever for there is is no sailor in in the bhole iho leot of our merchant navy who does not do as much and as dangerous slack rope v walking a aking 1 in in midair mid air Ng whenever enever ila he is sent aloft in a gale and this is not the least amusing part of the whole hoax that hat everybody 1 I cant even except yourself of the times has accepted the difficulty of the feit beat on the mere faith that it was asserted to be difficult A moments reflection will convince any one that a man who mio can keep his head clear and cool at the height of a cip clippers rs mai could do the same thing at te the e inferior height beight of the mid space spa e of blondina Blon dins apocryphal feat the good people of our town ton have bad their fun out of you you tyoa must admit arid and have made a jamr anu thin out of it loo in a becu pecuniary mary way lutao but a joke kt as I 1 said before I 1 is a joke and has its bounds n R E p |