Show an I 1 r abent though absurd wagers often incon other people are now sometimes made they arc not so alent BB in the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth centuries tl 0 absurdity of a wager made by somo persons in Is only equaled qu aled by the credulity of the multitude on ann ac of that year according to w 11 spread announcements a person would on a walking cane at the ha market theater the music of berv 11 get into a quart bottle and while there eang several bongs at the same time permitting any spectator to handle the bottle the theater could bold but a email proportion of the am dense crowd but the performer did not appear some person behind the curtain announced that it the audience would remain there until the neit morning instead of going into a quart bottle he would get into a pint one but though the multitude had faith la the quart the pint bottle was too much A riot ensued and the interior of the theater was destroyed london chronicle |