Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-12-26
nxrn,onpNAny ACHIEVEMENTS.
All Depending Upon The Incentive of
Mayors.

MnHcrs.
Some Of the achievements depond-
Ing on the incentive OF wngers Were In
past iimos very odd,
Long before the daye of steamboats, a
gentleman wngorcd one thousand guln-
cas- that he would make bont move %
miles an hour lie accomplished IL la
n very singular way, and At connld.
cradle outlay In money and ingenuity
He caused circular cUnal to be dug
0 feet wide, and InclOsing space 100
feet In diameter, and nlled with water.
a horizontal pole, odual In length 10
the radius OF tho circle. was pivoted az
one end to strong noat In the middle,
and fastened at the other end 10 n
boat; II horse trottod IN smaller cir
Gle, AZ point nearer to the post than
to the boat, dragging tho pole round.
ana the leverage thus slngulnrly OBJ
taincd uuilicod 10 rive II velocity OF 20
miles mn hour to the outer end Of tho
pole. ind consequently to the boat.
An extraordinary feat of u different
character was accomplished In iSi7
by John Slowman, actor, singer and
manager OF the i've theatres conHtl-
tutng the Kent Circuit. AIR Snowman.
while playing ~ Canterbury, made n
interlude OF Intrigue and sing n
comic pong IN three Of his theatres on
the nninc night. between tho hours OF
and H. The theatres selected wero
thaHe OF Canterbury, Rochester and
Maidstone. betwoon which placed there
was Mt that time no railroad commute
cation on the appointed evening the
curtain rose at Canterbury exactly at
I; Snowman went through HIS pnrt
and sang comic song. thon jumped
into poht-chnisc and made for Roch-
ester az fast as four good horses could
take him, reaching tina, town In an
hour and forty minutes-tolerably
good work. considering tho distance
was twenty-nlx miles, and he was
Obliged TO halt nj Sltlngbournc TO
change horses, Part OF the company
had been sent on before. aud they were
roady to ring up as soon ms the man
agor arrived. The interludo was
played, the song sung, and Snowman
posted 10 Mnidetone, eight milcH, In
forty four minutes. to be welcomed by
house crowded to the ccillnE. and
win his wager by getting through his
task with frtcon minutca TO spare.
II Is astonishing whnt queer ihlnga
men have done Tor the sake Of winning
Il wngcr In the cnrly part Of the relgu
Of George III. two gcntlemsn made an
eccentric wager A. cOifee house nenr
Temple Bar, one OF them undertook
TO Jump into water aoN IN feet deep
with all his usual clothing on aud un-
dress himself completely lie per
formed the feat. ana " we picture TO
ourselves the twisting and wrlgRllng
Involved In auch nm operation floating
the whole OF tho time, we must admit
II 10 be ms difficult an affair as II was
ludlcroua.
A gentleman In 1907 laid hot NJ two
thousand gulncaH that he would go Into
one of the wheels OF the waterwurks
at London Bridge while In Its ewiftest
motion with an ebb tide, stay there
1ve minutes and come on, with nhfety
In different part from that At which
he entered, and afterwards Walk mile
within tho hour II he did u, an re-
corded, II doubtless deserved the char
acter given 10 II OF being the most
extraordinary exploit OF the kind that
has been performed for many years.
In 1855 d man crossed the Thnmta In
butchers tray, using nothing but MS
hnnda 10 prOpel H. but wearing cork
lnckct In case OF accident, The chron-
ioiors record that seventy boat-loads
OF spectators were present aud bets TO
the aggregate amount OF 1900 de-
pended on the event"
In 1868. flsh-hawkcr Mt Chelsea un-
dertook 10 run from Hyde Park cor
ner seven miles along the Brentford
road, In one hour with ffty-six pounds
Of flsn on his hend. He performed tho
tourney In forty-nve minutes. BELONG
ing to this class OF exploits II that
which was achieved by n gardeners
apprentice, who. IN 1926, for wager
III s7s. undertook 10 walk from Wanhs-
worth 20 the Borough market. six miles
In one hour. with 800 head OF asparagus
as a load he accomplished II In hfty-
eight minutes. An exploit OF analogous
character was that OF an orange porter
nj Thames street. He made twenty
Journeys from Iiotolph lnDe to Spital-
fields market. each time carrying ono
hundred weight OF oranges. The forty
three miles he undertook TO accomplish
in ten hourB, md won wager OF ten
gulneas by doing II In eight hours thir-
| ty-flve minutes.
A merchant Of York. IN 1865, paved
100 square yards with common e.tonen
IN less than nine hours, 10 decide
wnser; and In the same year Rerk-
shire gentleman feiled III trees OF one
sort and another In nix hours ana
twenty-five minutes.
An extraordinary wager was oncs
decided at Kelso. a painter there
undertook 10 fell bullock with his
tist in three blows, and won by bring
ing II down In two. He was very
slender man. and only Q feet Inches
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