Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-05-27
A CURIOUS BET.
How the Old Woman Dash ed q Reck-
49, ...--,- less Youths Hopes.


ago, says the Philadelphia Record. One
commended that the wearing of the hir-
suite adornment was on the wane; the
other said that more mustaches are
worn now than ever before. The up
shot of the matter was that the first of
fered to bet that seven persons without
mustaches Gncluding women, for the
sake of making the test more interest
ing) would pass the club windows be-
fore three with muStaches should go
by. The wager was promptly accept
ed, referee was selected and the three
stationed themselves at the point of
vantage to take observations. The first
four to pass were young women and the
anti-mustache man grew jubilant. His
jaw fell, however, when the next two
pedestrians, with luxurious growths
upon their lips, hove in sight. Then fol-
lowed two more women, and the watch
ers waited eXpectantly. The ninth
passer-by was a young man who was
raising fnustache, yet in it's infancy.
a warm argument followed as to the
disposition of this case, but the referee
Sc tiled the matter by crediting one-ha!f
to each side, making the score 6h to 2iG
An old woman was approaching in the
distance, and the man who had 2H
points began to lose hope. but when
she arrived opposite the reviewing stand
it was seen that she had more hair
on her lip than her male predecessor.
The referee decided against the fellow
who had proposed the bet.
Al e
pianists in France, has just died in
Paris.
Caesar Thompson, the Belgian vio-
linist, is so i'll that he has had to cancel
his engagements.
Mario Ancona, baritone not I'M
known in this country, has been made
knight of the Order di Christie by the
king OF Portugal. ..., .., U..I.:
The positively last, absolutely final
and never-to-be-rcpeated farewell tour
Of this. country by Patti is to be re-
peated in the near future.
There will be great Saxon music
festival at Dresden this year. The &C.
wandhaus orchestra of Leipzig will take
part in it, as we'll as the royal orches-
ira of Dresden.
Me-. F. II. Cowen has just finished a
new Concertstuck for pianoforte and
orchestra. 1T was written at the sug-
gestion of NJ. Paderewaski, by whom,
probably, it will be played for the first
time in public.
Liebling, the pugnacious pianist, who
short time ago attacked a. critic, is
now giving recitals in London. Judg-
ing from the adverse criticism he is
receiving, one may expect to hear of a
few battered Englishmen. w .,,.r.
"a Basso Porto" an opera by
5pinella, telling low-lived ,Neapolitan
tragedy, is booked for 20 opera houses
in Germany and Austria during the
coming season. The work has for
some years met with great success in
Italy,. ......,...-..,.. ...,.,.,........
Weingartner did not return to Berlin
upon. the expiration of his furlouph, but
conducted q concert in Munich without
obtaining further extension OF time
He has thus virtually broken his con.
tract with the royal opera intendency
One 64-year-old resident of Pettis
Mo-, says,that he has never worn pair
Of overshoes, a,watch, or paper collar
Twelve thousand feet of lumber was
unloaded from, q railroad car and piled
up in 20 minutes at Gardiner, Me-, the
other day. :. GuEs ~ u3
To gain her liberty q negress man
aged to squeeze herself between bars
only six inches sapart at the Paris
(Fenn.) ;ail, ,itis said,s
It has been sstimatsfi that 1O, 900 dead
fishes were cast upon the shore Of thu
lake at Loring Park, Minneapolis, wheI
the ice melted this year, the unusua
thickness of the ice during the winter
having caused the f1shes to perish O.
] suf1ocation,