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Show CHAMPION SXOHEB.S, Dana's Sud tultivatcs all manner of sensations, and its manager would without doubt make a most successful as. press agent. Of late this paper has been dev uing itself to developing the fi'.c art of champion snoring. As a result its columns bristle with challenges chal-lenges and eounter-chftllcnies. From the list we take some sample notes. Sin I have a man who I will match on snoring against auy mm in the country from $100 to $5mj. He has earned a grrat re put a! ion as a fnorer. It G- 11. Hatl means business !et him say so. Sit: As the question as to who is the champion snonst ic;m3 to be agitating agi-tating the whole community, I beg to suggest a mt-ans by which the point can be fina'ly settled. My idea is to orgarize a great snoring snor-ing tournament, open to all comerv, the prize to be a bilker cup which 1 have now in my pos-ion. This cud was similarly competed for in 1S69, and was then won by Ntil Bryant, who out-sDorcd seventj-,ne opponents. Th'1 editor o! the Spirit of the 1 imns to )c firai rclerce, and to de.-iunawj the time an i plaee for the eompeuiion. Sir: 1 hive a man I win match for a-iwhing from a nre.'.Ie to an anchor in that manly art ol t-oDg. His name is Tiiru Monday, and he can be found at the Hone House, T.iJ Broadway; ani not on y is he th bo-s snorer hut the be.-t ta k'.-r as well. He has been known to fa k a man to sleep in three and a In, f minutes by the cck. But .-f his snorirg no one can pHce what it is like, ua'-s he saw the hornin of Barnuni's ad hesrd the turning ucr:-aud ucr:-aud Hons, be was standing by a Ump pest oce Dght aoi fcil luiq dcze, wnen he merely gave a little rip-ie rip-ie as a prelude of what was to follow, and he broke all the glass in the Hone House window opposite. Hoping to hear iron some one anxious for a match, Respectfully yours, Sir. 1 read in the Sun of yesterday, witti mirtitd ll-elicgs of pleasure and contempt, of the mediocre achievements achieve-ments of several snoring characters, to whom, I am sorry to say, you have given unde-crved prominence, for their pertormacci-s are as tho murmuring of a biibbliDir brook compared to the un earthly courts of niy man, who some time ago resided in the neighborhood ol Twelfth and Walnut streeis. He had the pleasure of occupying his house undisturbed, for the denizens of this portion of our town deserted their houses in despair, declaring that they were haunteJ, and to a person remaining remain-ing in any oe of them over night it really appeared that they were. As my man reared about eleven o'clock, of course the:-e mysterious moanings and waitings would commence shortly after, and continue untU about six in the morning. Now 1, beiog an intimate friend of Mr. Thomas Riley (for that is the gentleman's name; his place ot busine?s is 4ol Walnut street), knew very well that ibe.-e mysterious noises were simply his natural nasal perform- i aDces. He subsequently moved to the! weird and wild attractions oft he Neck, i To this day people being out ai'ur1 eleven o'clock at nij;ht, carry umbrellas, umbrel-las, even il it is a moonlight night, for his mt-lll-d sm riLg resembles ihunder so eamiutcly t at all who hear him very na:ui:i suppose it Is going to ran:. My uu dees D'jL seek uotcriety, hut author z. s ujl- to match hitu against any man in tris or any other c mntry for I'm cn Si 0 0 ;o $10 000 a side. |