The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-11-19
Silly Billy Bets.

w3gers, generally eliminates in Presiden-
Ii ii election years, when even the severest
critic OF the practice must perforce yield
something 10 the Stiffness of the season. 1t
is true that comedy at times gives place to
tragedy, was the case with the despon
dent better at West Chester, Pa, VINO las:
week having lost bet of $500, on the
Presidential election, and which his conf
dence in the re election of Mr.. Harrison
had prompted him TO borro e, cody took a
pistol and blew out his alleged brains.
To the credit of ordinary human nature
however, such tragic cases are exception
ally rare, the generally prevalent feature
of noticeable campaign bets being their
Stiffness. Our contemporary the Baltimore
Sun in its Issue of Tuesday, gives an
editorial compilation of what it terms the
"humors and forfeits of the election,
which illustrates how the ingenuity of bet
tiers both male and female, outstrips their
sense, in divieipg original and unseeming
forfeits. The campaign which came to an
end last week seems to have been more
than usually fruitful in absurd and grotes
que wagers. The wheel barrow bet, though
old. still has its admirers, and Mr.. Harri-
sons defeat has been the means of prCcur
ing rides in this uncom Portable vehicle for
ii large number of jubilant democrats and
of testing the muscular ability of their
political opponents. In Chicago, with
genuine Western originality, they varied
the usual programme, and on Friday Miss
Alice Poole, ''a society belle and president
of the Columbia Bicycle Club trudged down
Drexel boulevard" with Mr.. James S.
Graham, weighing $50 pounds, in a wheel
barrow Miss Poole will probably be a
great deal more of belle thanl-gver after
this, as she has clearly demonstrated her
ability -tsGG-sGPport husband But the
young man who seeks her hand should
rememb Der that she has strong one and
that she will be quite as able 10 dump him
out into the gutter of life as she is to wheel
him along the boulevard.
At Kreicherville, Staten Island, Abram,
Cole gave Murray Androvette ride thro-
ugh the streets on wheelbarrow, p pleasing
variety in the entertainment being provided
in a keg Of beer, which kept the democrat
company in the barrow, and from which
he renewed his enthusiasm from time to
time. The gentleman who prizes his
beard above all the treasures of the world
also crops up again at this juncture. SCme
cynic has said that man with long, full
beard is the most conceted of male bipeds.
I hi nj itch will ha
republican in Somerville, Mass, suffer who
must now shave off the handsome facial
adornment which has been developed from
an infant industry into its present state of
luxuriant beauty under the protecting
influence of the Mckinley bill Another
republican in Massachusetts, must wear
straw hat all the winter, which will give
his heated brain an opportunity to cool
off, and still another must wear a tall hat
of outlandish design. probably with
democratic rooster growing on top. A
female republican in the old Bay State WHO
who bet on Mr.. Harrison cannot wear
Corsets until after Mr.. Cleveland's inargur
ation-iI bet which it would have been well
if all the women in the country had madd,
with the time for the resumption of the
garment indefinitely postponed. Even
sedate and pious Philadelphia caught the
infection of the campaign madness, and
one of its gen:lemanly representatives will
furnish music from band-organ for the
democratic procession which marches by
the reviewing stand in Washington on
A
delphia is to sit as target while Il
democrat throws four dozen eggs at his
head. If they should prove to be protect
ion eggs which have been kept warm to
enable them to natch-but we forbear'
Crow is an old dish to serve to defeated
partisans, but two West Virginians
improved on this bill of fare by offering to
rat a rat if their Presidential candidate
were defeated. Saturday night the unhappy
Harrison III an complied with his contract
in the town hall in the presence of crowd
of enthusiastic democrats and sympathetic
republicans. Let US hope that the loser
was good union man and enjoyed eating
the rat. The supper was rendered moro
palatable by the fact that the game was
cooked and served up with some of Mr..
Elkin's famous political sauce. which he
had designed eating with the West Vir-
ginia goose for his Thanksgiving dinner
if he had caught it. 1t was wild goose
chase, and the cunning rat, and not the
goose, has been caught and eaten.
But the most novel bet of all IL til al
reported from Ohio. Henry Rudolph, resid
Ing at Evanston, ;" SO runs the dispatch ''hss
for several years sought the hand OF Miss
| Lawrence of the same place, but NJ euSoh
fully. just after the Chicsgo rsyolan'
Miss Lawrence bet Rudolph tssss -
! e.. . q 49, ss-@staks being her hand
| Tuesday night Rudolph came to this city &c
get the returns. He wss the most ANXIOUS
man in town. When it became known
that Cleveland had been elected he Wa:
wild Friday morning he returned tt
Evanston, brought Miss Lawrence TO the
city and married her" Tue dispatch
omits to say that all the other girls in
| Evanston are devoured with envy at Miss
| Lawrence's good fortune. SJme OF then
charge that Is was a piece OF Clever strategy
by which she led a diffident lover into
position from " hIch he could not escape
| But this is clearly "a piecs of feminin
| malice, and is unworthy of attention. Til
Evenston girl has given all other girls in
the country a pointer on the SUBJECT o
matrimony which they should not be SLOW
to utilize. If any girl in Maryland has
lover who is backward in coming forward
and who does not toe the mark with th
| promptness that ought to be shown i'll sucl
cases, she should immadi itely propose
wager with herself as the prize, providing
such conditions as would prevent her lo.in
by any possibility.
4 presidential election only comes ono
in four years, but it is no. necc;aSsa:y TO:
the girls to wait for au election to carry on
this matrimonial scheme They san be
on anything, and after IL fe. deiiuqucnt-
have thus been forced to do Jteir duly,
clever, determined girl, who has cuisines
in her eye, will just have To say, George
l bet you my hand aud heart that we set
married" to induce George to so out ant
get the license. Try it, dear girls; 10 no
let the republican State of Ohio ieav
democratic Maryland in the rear IN tn
matrimonial race. Aud, as beginning
read the story of the Evantsou girl to you
best young man tonight. If he lakes th
hint it will not be necessary to go iurthel
but if he does not seem TO understand
) enlighten his mind gently but resolutely
, by a bet with yourself as the object L
nine cases out of ten lie will take you VI
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