The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-28
Some Odd Election Bets.


1:42,
Some Odd Election Bets.
Compiled by the Chicago Times-Herald
Albert Dryer, a member of the New
York Consolidated Exchange, has made a
wager of 800 to $500 that Bryan will not
carry one county in the state of New
York.
]. ]. McGarvey of wellington, o., has
agreed if Mckinley is elected to give Jo-
seph Brumfield a span of mules and walk
to Columbus and back, A0 miles. If
Bryan is elected Brumfield will lose his
mules and do the pedestrian act.
Two Kansas men have drawn UP the
following agreement: wv. Glasscock and
c. Burnett make an agreement this day
that If Mckinley is defeated Glass is to
eat large warty toad; but if he is elected
Burnett is to eat the toad"
One of the queerest bets which have been
recorded is that made between a man and
his wife in Colorado. If Bryan is elected
the wife will chop all the family firewood
for a month, and if Mckinley wins the
husband will do the family washing for
an equal period.
Two young men of Philadelphia have
young lady. They have decided to let the
election settle matters for them If the
democrat wins, the republican is to stop
| calling on the young lady for six months,
and vice versa.
In Lexington, KY, Holloway Brothers
| have sold to William NJ. Wallace q BAY
yearling colt. The colt is valued at $780,
for it is by Onandaga, dam Petty. If
Mckinley wins Mr.. Wallace will pay $500
for the colt. If Bryan wins he will pay
$1,000 This amounts to Mr.. Wallace bet
ting $1,000 to $3.50 on Mckinley.
Two of the men employed in Barnum' s
circus made bet the other day, which
neither of them may be able to pay. The
republican agreed to drive cart drawn
by eight donkeys If Bryan was elected
and the democrat agreed to drive a team
of eight elephants hitched to a band wag-
on If Mckinley was elected.
In the staid, quiet town of Liberty
Center, o., Deacon Weekly, who has a
long beard and sound republican princi-
piles, has agreed to shave every morning
for four years If Bryan is elected. His
antagonist in argument, Elder Clever,
who is badly bitten with the free silver
idea, will not shave at all for four years.
John Harcha and Ellis X. Mccall, bar
bers of Buena Vista, o., have made a
novel wager. In case Bryan Is elected
Mr.. Harcha agrees to wear a straw hat
all winter and to shave and cut Mr.. Nc
Calls hair free for one year. Mr.. Nc
Call agrees that If Mckinley is elected
he will do similar service for Harcha,
In walsenburg, Col, John Welsh and
Thomas Carberry, two miners. made bet,
the payment of which will be fraught with
peril The loser agrees to so to the bot
tom of a 2OO-foot shaft, and, detaching the
bucket and taking the rope in his teeth,
allow himself to be drawn to the sur
face by the winner, who shall work the
windlass.
There are two men in Dallas, Tex
one long and slim and the other short and
fat. If Mckinley wins, the short man
agrees to wear suit of the long. lean
mans clothes for a month. II Bryan
wins the long, lean man will wear a suit
Of the short fat mans clothes for a month.
Which man has the odds on this bet?
Solutions Of the problem requested.
On Monday last Manager Hafner raised
a large transparency in front OF his Phil
adelphia theater, which bears the follow
ing challenge in letters so large that he
who runs may read: II am a democrat,
but bet this theater, the Star theater,
which cost me $4,000, against $4,000 cash,
that William ]. Bryan will not be the
next President Of the United States"
An EIectionecring Novelty.
From, the New York Tribune