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Show FREAK WAGERS 0M RECORD Offer Proof That Men With Gambling Instincts Will Bet on Anything Under the Sun. In The "ood old days' extraordinary extraordin-ary wafers were more common than they are today.. In ft'70, for instance, London Answers says. Lord I'igby slaked ju that he would walk live miles round Nevin:ir.et Heath in a ceriain time, barefooted and stark naked, and had the misfortune of losing los-ing by the narrow margin of half u minute, the kins and all the court being be-ing witnesses of the performance. In the hitter half of the eighteenth cemury a Liverpool scientist bet a brother scientist that lie would read u newspaper by the light of a farthing dip at a distance of 30 feet. The wager was cheerfully accepted. The first scientist merely coated the inside of a shallow wooden box with sloping pieces of looking glass, so as to form a concave lens, placed it behind the farthing dip, and easily read the small print at the distance named. The winning win-ning of the "wager was witnessed by a Liverpool dockmaster, who ultimately applied the idea to lighthouse requirements re-quirements and evolved the modern rellected light. . About two years ago, during a yachting trip of members of the Mersey Mer-sey docks and harbor board, A. V. Williuer, a leading Liverpool cotton broker, was presented with a pair of wooden shoes for his birthday, and another member of the board offered to contribute a sum of money to two charities if Mr. Willmer Would go to I he cotton exchange wearing them. For sweet charity's sake llr. Willmere appeared on 'change wearing the wooden shoes and the stakes were handed over to him. Perhaps the limit was reached in a certain town in Canada, where a man propelled a green pea with a toothpick tooth-pick for about eighty yards along the pavement within half an hour of the stipulated time and won his wager. |