The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-04
ONE AS GOOD AS A PAIR.
WonderslDone With Single Arm or a
Solitary Leg
From the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record.
Men with but one leg who can win prizes
from champions in a foot race, men with no
legs who can climb like cats, and men with
but one arm who can mend fishing net
and manage boat like sailor, are among
the curiosities of the Twenty-first ward.
William Stockhouse of Bridesburg, who is
So years Of age and has no legs at all, is
one Of the most astonishing climbers in the
country. He lost his legs when a child,
and goes about on two crutches. Hs can
not rise without help but he can swim like
dolphin and goes up the rigging of ship
like cat, ''skinning" up to the trucks and
coming down by the stays.
HIS ONE ARM AS HANDY AS A PAIR.
John Ferguson, also of Brideshurg, is
the most noted one-armed man in Phlladel-
phia. Eighteen years ago, when a boy of
10 years, ne fell from an apple-tree and
broke his left arm, which had to be ampu-
tated close to the shoulder, leaving no
stump at all. He soon developed an aptness
for dong everything with his remaining
arm which ordinary people do with two
arms. He rows boat, taking the poles of
both oars in his one hand without mechani-
cal appliances He pushes gunners on the
marshes for rail and reed birds, fishes a
| shad net and cleans and opens his catch
| with great dexte ity. As a swimmer he
has few equals, and has never yet been
beaten in swimming matches, of which he
has made several from Bridesburg to Pea
| Shore across the Delaware river, a distan ce
| of over two miles. A coal merchant for
whom he form -rly worked, stands ready to
| back him against any one-armed man in
| the United States at shoveling a ton of coal
| into q cart. He is q scientific boxer, and
can climb rope like any seaman.
A CHAMPION RACER WITH ONLY ONE LEG.
George Birch of Frankfort is 80 years
old, and lost a leg when very young. He
runs foot races either with or without a
crulch, and has been the winner of numer-
GUS sack races at Pastime park and at other
| places. With stump for a foot he dances
| jigs and kicks bar higher than his own
| head.
Joseph Schaffer, another Frankford curl
osity, is 50 years old, and lost one leg when
a baby. He uses stump, and can run up
ladder as fast as any hod-carrier, get in
and out OF wagon with wonderful alac-
rity, and mount a horse as adroitly as a
cavalryman. Tee late Edward Parry once
offered to match Scbaffer against any man
IN Philadelphia getting in and out of
! trotting-sulky.
Daniel Bastian, SchafFer's neighbor, is IS
| years old, and has but one leg. Bastian
has walked mile, heel and toe, in y. min
utes and has run 100 yards in Is seconds,
using crutch IN both cases.
TWO MORE WONDERS.
Glenn Cotter, S5-year-old resident of
Frankfort, has one god leg only, the other
| having wlVhered in childhood Cotter is a
noted swimmer, and frequently supports
| two small boys on his back while he swims
around in Frankfort creek He also pos
| sesses the faculty of walking on his hands.
. frequently covering an entire square in this
| way for the amusement of his companions.
Another one-armed man, William
| Nooten, police telegraph operator at the
| Twenty-hfth ward station house, who died
year or two ago, was in the habit of scull-
J ing himself in boat across the Delaware,
and would hen shoot rail and reed birds
! with great success.
| TEE Gelnan empire does not pay its high en-
ployes on an extravagant scale. Prince Bis
marck receives 81, zoo year and a residence.
The foreign secretary gets G2,500, including free
| quarters; the state secretary 81 800, including
! free quarters the state secretary of the inpe-
rial court of justice, 81 200 and a house, the
| state secretary OF the imperial treasury 81 900
/ and house; the state postmaster general
| tl,200 and house: the minister Of war II 500
| with house. fuel and rations for eight horses
the chief of the admiralty, 81 $40, with a house;
| the Chief of the General staff, &i 500. a house
| and rations for six horses. Fourteen command
| quarters and ratons for eight horses. With re-
| gard to ambassadors, those in London and St
Petersburg are paid 81, 500 each; in Vienna,
| Constantinople and Paris, $1,000 each OF min
listers, 81, 400 is paid at Brussels e. $50 st Buch-
rest, 81, 400 at Hague, C., 200 at Madrid e3 OO1