The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-17
SOME QUEER wAGERs.
Illustrating the Pleasure That some
Persons Find in Bathing.

From the San Antonio Daily Express.
\ lot of travelling men had come to San
Antonio to spend Sunday, and the dis
cussion turned upon the betting mania
and odd or peculiar bets.
Tell you what said the soda man.
ITS got SO there amt anything you
can't get a bet on, and it's hard to say
what nationality is the worst about it,
SpaniardS viii bet their last cent on a
game, and the Indians and Chinese are
as bad, but the English and the Ameri-
cans take the cheese on deciding every
thing by a bet,
I've seen two men watch a window
pane on rainy day. pick out two drops
hitting the top about the same time.
ana bet 81 side on which would hit
the bottom first, and they wouldn't drop
like you might think they would, either
FIRST one drop, then the other would
strike a sticky place, dust, etc, on the
glass and hang fire and seesaw all the
way down, thus furnishing the excite
ment which was the object of the bet
Another time two Englishmen were Sc
Letting HES which lit near them, backing
them FOR good money. The one that
new first won. They had to let EN- alone:
1t would forfeit the bet to punch 'em
up Sometimes they would be five min
utes or more watching every move with
breathless Suspense-the flies running
around, and often the still one fyinP
first. Once both flew at once and AZ
another time the two Champions cot to
Scrappng, and each man lost track of
his fly, and bets were off. Quite a num-
DER OF us nau collected around. but The
two bettors were too much absorbed in
the game to notice u.s."
Said the railroad man: zone Christmas
l was down watching the sWtchmen in
the yard at Ottumwa, la. The whole crew
We're celebrating, more or less, and had
paid several visits to the saloon under the
depot hotel known as the Road to Hell,
kept by the notorious old Storing Jordan,
VINO bucked the prohibition law so long.
a Fellow in the crew, pulling pins a tall
iank, blue nose from the eastern limit of
Nova Scotia a K4rux oh, rrs,,.- -.
and 'raWhiding with the eagle eve or
engineer on the yard engine Both were
pretty well tanked, and got to blufIing
each other, and finally the blue nose bet
the engineer he could stand in the middle
Of the track and get on the head end of
the engine as fast as she could turn a
How much start will you let me
have?" asked the engineer
- Go plum to hi for a start with yer
the switchman.
They put up $25 a side but that wasn't
an the stakes. Failure meant death for
for murder
They went out into the yard to settle
II; There stood the switch engine, all hot.
The ground was frozen and slinperv ana
the track full of hard hacked and frozen
snow 70 the top of the rail. Up to then we
thought they were bluffing, but when they
we tried to get the fool off the track. but
off. 9''0u Us
The engine came at full speed TWENTY
| I'VE or thirty miles an hour easy That
IelloW stood staggering drunk in the CEN
Ter or the track, and never moved When
me engine reached him he leaned way
paGk, SET one foot up on the step and she
p5cKed MN up like flash, and never even
11nfeW nm against the iron hand rail-
Ihey went back to the saloon. and one
more urlnk put EN- both asleep"
Now L Will tell you a bet that was
sure Iuhny said the tobacco man. Il
was OUT hshing one day in a boat on a
sIldH lake, and a retail, grocer and a
sIocery salesman friend of mine We're
also in the party. The grocer was bra .
Slng of his dog all the time. There was
no other dog on earth like him: the best
HShler, the best ratter and the best swim
mer IN the world He could do more tricks
anu better tricks than any show dog on
SdIJn' TO hear his owner tell it. He
mace US weary, very weary, but we
C"u!u not say anything, of course Well
hshlng wasn't much good the fool dog
parked every time one of us pulled a
nook in to bait it. We caught a few
ush, and they were small, but finally /
accidentally hooked the biggest old resi-
uehter OF a bull frog ever saw. He was,
sure enough, a dandy. My friend saw
ms chance and proposed a swimming
The dog man took him M ouick and saij
II was like getting candy from children.
SO dead easy. They were to tie the bull
frog to the dogs tail and throw them
into the water. If the dog could take
Mr.. Bully to the bank he wOn otherwise
not no draw went. The programme was
carried out. Bully seemed dazed at first
when they hit the water, and did not
make move till Mr.. Dog had him going
toward the bank. Then he suddenly OBJ
jected to acting as rudder without he
sure enough did the steering, and he
diVed and set Mr.. Dog on end, with his
/ paddles churning the water. Then it
was nip and tuck between EN- for ten
minutes or so, first one had little adj
vantage, then the other, but the odds in
favor of the frog. Every time the dog
would get little the best of il bully
would dive and set him on end and
/ change his direction by swimming around
him. 1t was the funniest thing I ever
saw. both scared. frantic. and just MAX
ing the water boil. Finally bully got
the best of it, had the dog. beat clear
out and would have drowned him if we
had not pulled them into the boat as he
was sinking the last time. You ought
TO have seen them look at each otheri 1t
was q sight for painter shame, fear.
surprise, and grief in doggies phiz, and
a solemn gravity on Mr.. Bully that would
have done credit to an OWL
-Housekeeper-The potatoes to-day
were so salty we could not touch them.
New Girl-Well, mum. il was this way.
After they got to cookin'. l couldn't re-
how NOT