Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-31
More Curious Bets.
WHAT SOME FOOLISH PEOPLE HAVE AGREED 10
DO AFTER ELECTION.

MOFe CURIOUS betS.
WHAT SOME FOOLISH PEOPLE HAVE AGREED TO
DO AFTER ELECTION.
Every day brings to light more curious
wagers made upon the result of the coming
election. A Pipestone, Mimi, man proposes
this agreement with his brother, who is DEM
ocrat: IF Grover Cleveland is reelected will
make a pilgrimage, barfooted, walking $50
miles. and scourge myself with the regret of
not having done my duty to my fellow-man
and much-wronged Dakota. Upon my arrival
which shall be before December Is, 1885, you
| shall pour vinegar instead Of balsam upon my
bleeding feet and feed me with crumbs from
your table, making my bed at night in the loft
OF the pig-pen. After one weeks sojourn you
| shall kick me off the premises, to return the
same as came. All ask you to do is to sub
init to the same conditions provided Ben Har-
rison is elected"
A Chicago commission merchant has con-
tracted with a saloon-keeper Of that city that if
Cleveland is elected he will carry a coffin on
his back twenty times around Haymarket
Square. band of music is to go ahead and a
chins will follow. If Harrison is elected then
the saloon-keeper will carry the coffin. for
felt of S25 hangs on the bet.
New York society lady has wagered din
ner party with gentleman who has agreed to
| send her a dozen beautifully decorated mag
NUNS of Dry Monopole if Harrison fails to
carry the state, and a. well-known society girl
is said to have made Just such another bet on
Cleveland with Mr.. Herman Oelrichs.
Miss Sallie Hewitt, of New York, is naturally
| staunch follower of Mr.. Abram Hewitt and
she is taking every wager that is offered on the
result of the mayora1ty contest, while Mrs.
Cooper Hewitt, it is said, has made a wager Of
pony with her handsome brother, Mr.. George
Work, that her father-in-law will be reelected
by &C, 600 majority.
Several novel election bets have been made
in Rockland County, N. Y. among them being
the following; A young man in this place is a
solid democrat while the young lady upon
whom he bestows his attentions is an out-and-
out republican. The political strife between
the two has waged 80 strongly during the cam
paign that all love talk by them has been de-
clared 'off'' until after the country is saved by
either one party or the other. After heated
argument the other night the lady said she
wanted to make bet on Harrison. II won't
bet replied the youg man, who is strictly
moral in his practices and tendencies, "but if
Harrison is elected will agree to climb up to
the top of one of the republican banner poles"
"All right" said the girl, in glow of enthu-
| siasm, land if Cleveland is reelected will
agree to climb up the Cleveland pole to the
| top" The contract was sealed with hand
| shake, and the friends of the parties are i'm
patiently waiting to see who will have to climb
pole.
Two women in Clarkstown have made prac-
teal agreement to be fulfilled after election.
If Cleveland is elected the republican woman
| is to come over to the house of the dem ocratic
woman and do her weeks washing for her, and
vice versa if Harrison is elected. The ladies
are both in good standing, and neither of them
does her own washing.
A democratic editor at Salida, Col, wants to
bet his newspaper against $4,000 cash on
Cleveland.
A wager that has excited considerable inter-
est in New York city is one made between Gen.
Daniel Butterfeld, formerly chief of staff of
the Army of the Potomac, and Col H. A.
Weeks, formerly colonel of the Twelfth New
York volunteers The bet was made in the
Twelfth Regiment armory, and Gen. Butterfeld
first proposed to wager 81 500 that Harrison
would be elected. Instead of accepting the
challenge Col. Weeks turned to the artist, Ed
ward Forbes. who had painted two large war
pictures for the Twelfth Regiment armory, and
proposed a novel wager. Let Mr.. Forbes"
he said, paint another picture for the armory
one representing the battle of Gaines Mills
| in which We were both engaged. Let him set
his own price, and You shall pay for it if Cleve-
| land is elected and in my turn if Harrison
wins" Gen. Butterfeld promptly accepted
this offer. So the armory will have another
large battle canvas whoever wins next week.
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