Show AN ELECTION BET Society Man of Brooklyn Must Ride a Donkey from New York to San Francisco NEW YORK Nov 90f all the election elec-tion bets of the season perhaps the most extraordinary has just come to light in spite of the precautions taken by the parties thereto to preserve the secret In order to preserve his honor and carry out the conditions of the bet he so rashly contracted with Benjamin Ben-jamin Tillard a publisher of New York a modest and dignified young society man of Brooklyn must ride a donkey from New YOrk to San Francisco It va only by accident that the news nas tinaiiy got into print ixooert 1 Woodward is the unfortunate man and deeply mortified he is realizing as he now does the rare amusement he Is to afford his friends and the public in general When asked if the report was true Mr Woodwards surprise was too genuine to admit of its denial Yes said he I bet on the silver candidate and lost and as Mr Tillard would surely haye made good his wager I shall do no less than to carry out my part to the letter When do you start on your journey jour-ney Immediately after Thanksgiving Mr Woodward replied Its hard to do i but I have purchased my donkey and I shall go I think I shall reach the coast all right and then go right on around the world but not on a donkey I will be ashamed to show my face in Brooklyn for some time You see I must parade on my donkey certain popular thoroughfares in New York city before starting No I decline de-cline to name the streets I dont want to see a familiar face on that occasion Both my steed and myself must wear spectacles and I c frock coat and silk hat and on my transcontinental trip I must visit both the victorious and the defeated candidate I must stat within with-in one month after election day And Mr Woodwards countenance departed depicted utter disgust as the reporter Mr Tillard wasfound in his office in New York and on learning thai his cobetter had explained the terms of the bet said it was all true He would give no further information c |