The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-21
man who Is betting on Bryan believes
that the police will prevent the exhibi-

man who Is betting on Bryan believes
that the police will prevent the exhibi-
ton.
IN YANKEEDoM.
An odd bet is that arranged between
two merchants in Connecticut town.
The parties to 1t are rival merchants,
and one day after dispute at the club
the Mckinley man offered to agree that
II Bryan should be elected he would
parade the streets Of the city eight
hours each day for q week wearing q
sign proclaiming the virtues OF his RI
walls goods. If Mckinley won the
tables we're to be turned and the Bryan
man would be the sandwichman to ad-
vertise the others stock Of goods.
Over in Walsenburg, Colo, where
there are coal mines and where humor
takes a very practical form and a joke
often implies cracked crown, two
miners, John Welch and Tom Carberry.
have made most peculiar wager. The
loser agrees to 60 to the bottom of q
2OO-foot shaft and. detaching the
bucket, take the rope IN his teeth and
allow the winner to draw him to the
surface by means Of the windlass. The
only condition imposed on the winner
pedttion and caution as he would in
bringing to the top Of the shaft q
bucket Of coal.
Dodge City, Kan. has a wild record,
but that Is another story and has long
been atoned for by a sedateness worthy
of New England village. However.
there Is a good deal of fun left In the
Dodge City man yet, even If he does
not take the direction of "a man for
breakfast" This fact receives confir-
nation in the report of an election bet
which has just been made between F..
X. Powers and f. r. Prowitt. Powers
Is a red-hot Populist. while Prowitt
is an old school gold bug Republican.
The wager is on the general result and
is handicapped by no conditions. If
Mckinley Is elected Prowitt wins, and
If Bryan is elected Powers wins. The
winner Is granted the proud privilege Of
wheeling baby wagon along the prin-
cipal streets Of the town while the
loser rides in the wagon with child s
rattle in one hand and a nursing bottle
in the other. The bottle is to be filled
with sour milk, and the loser must i'm
bibe all of this milk through a small
rubber hose before the triumphal
march Is finished.
ONE BUCKEYE BET.
II there is a matter Of fact town in
these United States, that town is Liber-
ty Center. Ohio. Imagination Is an
unknown quantity and invention en-
tirely foreign to that environment. To
wager money on any event Is consider
ed the vilest Of gambling, for everybody
in Liberty Center belongs either to the
Methodist Episcopal church or the Uni
ted Brethren. But these good people
are strong political partisans. and in
order to emphasize their beliefs they
MN mo- nt~ v1e,ts NC,
it came about that Deacon Weekly,
who has a long beard and strong Re-
publican convictions. made with Elder
Glover. who has smooth face and who
is particularly smooth Democrat, the
following compact, which in simple
parlance would be called a bet, viz: If
Mckinley is elected Glover Is not to
shave for four years, but if Bryan Is
elected Weekly is to shave every morn
ing of his life from the fifth day of next
November until the fifth day of Novem-
ber four years from that date. The re-
suit is sure. whoever is elected, that
Liberty Center will have either two
ng-bearded or two closely shaven men
for the next four years.
Perhaps the most peculiar bet of any
vet recorded Is one made last week be-
tween two walters in a Chicago res
taurant. The loser binds himself to
purchase 100 oysters in the shell and to
open them for the winner. who is to eat
them as fast as they are opened. It
is moot question which man will have
IN THE WILD WEST.
There is q man in Oklahoma who
does not care very much whether he
wins or loses a bet he has made. In
the town of Perry, o. T., dwell Alice
Younger and Thomas Stanton. These
young people are engaged to be mar
ried and are recorded as having made
a marriage bet on the result Of the ma
tional election. The first proposition Is
naive in its conditions. Miss Younger
agrees to marry Stanton II Bryan is
elected, and Stanton agrees to marry
Miss Younger if Mckinley Is elected
This is a shrewd application Of the
ancient principle Of "six Of one and
half dozen Of the other" However
the second proposition is unique. fol
Miss Younger agrees to pay all the
wedding expenses If Stanton wins.
Another odd bet is reported as hav.
ing been made in Lexington, Ky. va
turally the blue grass region furnishes
q wager concerning horseflesh. Hollo-
way Brothers have sold to William NJ
Wallace a bay yearling colt by Onon.
daga. dam Patty. The colt is valued
at $3.50. If Bryan is elected Wallace
Is to pay Holloway Brothers $1,000 fol
the colt. If Mckinley wins then Wal.
lace gets the colt for $500. This Is big
odds in favor Of Mckinley, being In
reality $1,000 against $3.50.
There are some circumstances under
which q silver man will give gold
mortgage. Such circumstances ap.
pealed to an enthusiastic Bryan parti.
op To-
gold mortgage on a piece Of real es'
tate to raise $500, and this money he
offers to wager at to 3 that Bryar
will carry the solid south and every
state west Of the Alleghenies.
DOWN SOUTH.
Montgomery, Ala, has evolved var.
iation Of the 16 to idea in the shape
of wager. offered by a confident, SOUND
money man, who bet q silver man six.
teen silver dollars to one gold dollar
other Republican wagered thirty-twC
ounces of silver to one ounce Of golt
that Bryan would be defeated.
The Democrats of New York city are
not disposed to bet on the general re.
suit, but one Of their experts has in.
vented catch" wager that presents
a somewhat alluiing aspect. This fin
ancial genius offers to wager 81, 900 thai
Altgeld will carry Illinois, and 81 00(
that Bryan will carry Illinois. and 49,.
, 900 that Bryan will carry more states
than Mckinley. This Is one bet with
three propositions, and all of the prop.
ositions must be accepted or the trans.
action will not be closed. The mar
| who makes this offer expects to lose
the two $1,000 BETS but believes that ht
| will win the $4,000 wager, thus clearing
! 81, 600 on the entire bet. This is not un
| reasonable. for Bryan might carry
| twenty-eight states and Mckinley only
seventeen, and yet even under these
circumstances the latter might bt