| Show alie leati there is a german boy employed in a barbershop hr newark says the new york sun whose claim to distinction lies in the fact that he ato twenty pretzels one day to win a dollar The limit was two ji ours and the pretzels were of size and well salted he was pretzel when a customer aske dhun eow many ho thought ho could eata 1 l wendy the boy answered tho cos torn et rp marked that h e would civo and the pt tz elsif he ato twenty houra the robn returned with twenty alve pretzels on ia B tick th en ho bagan his task and afteme abing six h 0 took a drink of water therean pretzel burst a button off jhb waistband of his trousers and after tha t eating became laborious on tho he consumed ten minute sand wa inclined to give up butcho sight oi a brighta silver dollar spurred himori arad gettin ff a cup of coalee he soaked the twentieth in it and ate ier triumphal antly lie was uncomfortable for several hours afterward but ho incurred no bad effects from tho unusual meal now two of his friends want to back him in a pretzel eating match with any boy of his ase i |
