The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1873-1875, 1875-10-27

vas ridiculous, and he said had .bet
Bradley : couple Of hundred Thousand
| dollars that life conldn't be sustained
half way up, and so
Mrs. P.- William, you're wrong, he
only offered to bet fifty dollars. -
P.--WeN, anyhow, Bradley took him
up quicker d wink, and they agreed
to send cat up in . balloon to decide
the bet. So what does Bradley do but
| buy Z balloon shout twice as big az
! our barn, and begin to --- ggas sa5
+ Mrs. P. It was only ten feet. in diam
eter, Mr.. Adeler. William forgets, =
! sP.-Begin to initiate her. When she
was was filled, it took eighty men to hold
her, and t4as5,,
Mrs. P.-Eighty men! Mr.. Potts!
Why, you know that Mr. Bradley held
! the balloon himselfl eea 'ltsf.8fs5
PIE did, did he2 Well, what's
the odds9 And when everything WAS
ready they brought out Bradley's TOM
cat, and put it in the basket, and tied It
in, SOS itcouldn't Jump out, you know.
There Was about hundred thousand
people looking on, apd when they, let
go you never heard such 49, .,.s
Mrs. P.-There was not one more
than two hundred people in the place.
]. counted them myself " 1's q
P.-Oh, don't bother me! u ( say you;
never heard such yell as the balloon
went scooting up into the sky, pretty
near out of sight. Bradley said she
went up about a thousand miles, and
now, don't interrupt me, Henrietta
l know what the man said-and that.
cat, mind you, bowling like . hundred. /,
fog horns, SOS you could have heard
her. from here to Peru. Well, sir, when
she was up SOS she looked as small as -
pin head, something or, other burst. / &
dunno how it was, but pretty soon
down came that balloon q Pickering to-
wards the earth at the rate fifty miles
a minute, and Old fIgtii e. L
Mrs. P.-Mr. Potts, you know the
balloon came down as gently As 3v
P.-Oh do hush up! Women don't
know anything about such things. And
old Bradley, he had kind Of regis
tering thermometer fixed in the basket
along with the cat, some sort Of . pat
ent machine. which cost thousands Of
dollars and he was expecting to exam
inc it, and Green had an idea that he'd
| lift out dead cat, and sweep in the
stakes, when all Of . sudden as she
came pelting down, tornado struck
'her--now, Henrjetta, Whist in thunder
are you staring at me in that way for?
It was 4 tornado regular cyclone
and it struck her and jammed her a.
gainst the lighting rod on the Baptist
church steeple, and there she stuck
stuck on that spire about eight hundred
feet up in the air. 5s...-........,
Mrs. P.-You may get just as mad az
you like, but I'm positive that that
steeple is not an inch over ninety.tye
feet. ....-...,.. ..s....g..,.. ....s f.sI :,
P.-Henrietta, wish to gracious
you'd go up stairs and look after the
children. Well, about half minute
after she struck, out stepped that TOM
cat into the wethercock. Itmade Green
sick. And just then the hurricane
reached the weathercock, and it begun
to revolve six or seven hundred times
. minute, the cat bowling till you
couldn't hear your self speak. (Now,
Henrietta, you've had your; put, you:
keep quiet.) That cat stayed on that
weathercock about two months s.a.f.
4.3 Mrs. P.-Mr. Potts, that's an awful
story; it only happened on Tuesday.
p. (con6dentiallY)- Never mind
her. And on Sunday the way that cat
carried on and syowled, with it's tail !
pointing due east, was so awful they
couldn't have. church. And Sunday
afternoon the preacher told Bradley il
he didn't get that cat down he'd sue
hin:for b million dollars, damages. So
:Braaalsyj:g1t sgun And .sAot at the cat
fourteen hundred times (now you didn't
COUNT 'sh,: :Henfietta1 and lsdm, }. and
i1e. banged Che ton of !. fhe steepls alto q
pieces, and at lasf fetched the cat down,
Shot to rags, and in its stomach he s
found his Thermometer. She'd ate it (;
on her way up, and it stood at eleven
hundred degrees, so Old
Mrs. Pho thermometer ever stood
at such . figure as that; I'd za.5Fstt
p. (indi gnantly.) Oh, wolf, if you (
think you can tell the story better than
I can, why don't you tell it? You're
enouga to worry the life out Of . 2
man. g.,., s. st.,
Then Potts slammed the door and
went out, and l left. / don't know
whether Bradley got the stakes or
not.-MAx ADELER E
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