The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-02
RECORDS THAT STAY.
People Who Have Done Things
That Can't Be Beat.

One man was from South Boston: the other
had come from the mills Of Belfast. Ire
land. with a record. The South Boston
man. John n O'Donneal. won the contest.
Putting In ten hours q day. he had made
24s7 900 meshes when Saturday night came
around.
Peter Haley. on January -. 1857. near
Shenandoah. Pa. turned 100 shoes IN
i.E t1i-. accurately timed by q traveller.
W. London. Of Fargo. n. D.. removed
sixteen old shoes on four horses and 70
shod the bunch In 1:e0.
Samuel Loop. Of McKeesport. Pa. in 1887.
husked i40 bushels OF corn in ieto.oo. He
did no, stop to claim red-ear privileges.
Walter s. McPhaii VIII write poem on
your thumb nail or a history on the hack
Of a gas bill. Once he wrote on the back
OF postal card the ninth and twentieth
chapters Of ST. John. with three verses OF
the twenty-firss. In all 10. 10 words.
Over the wire b. r. Pollock sent 20
words in SEQ at q telegraph tournament.
The claim for faster work has been made
by several.
In typewriting Mr. NcGurrtn, OF Canada.
repeating a single sentence. made speed
OF 30 words q minute. The mechanism
will respond to no faster touch. In ordin-
airy correspondence Miss Mae e. Orr wrote
ninety-nine words q minute for FIVE mn
utes.
Isaac s. Dement,. who holds among short
hand writer's the place held by Mr.. McGur-
rim among typewriters, took down 10
words q minute last year.
In the matter OF quail eating there have
been any number OF claimants Of records.
A. NJ. Trautman. of Washington. put away
q bird for thirty days. Col. Thornton. OF
Atlanta. ate a quail a day for twenty-nin
days and on the thirtieth ate two. W..
s. Walcott ate two Quals . day for thirty
days.
Some years ago Charles Pearsail swal-
lowed Ave dozen soft-boiled eggs per day
for six consecutive days In New York
restaurant. He took thirty eggs In the
morning and thirty In the afternoon. About
that time. April. 1854. the q. A. r.. people
Of Tonawanda, n. r.. held bean eating
tournament. A Mr.. Baker got away with
six quarts OF beans In 1000.
A woman sandwich maker Of Paris.
against time and on a wager. once cut
1000 sandwiches in $4,000. She used up
twenty-five hams In the process.
G. A. Lee. OF Litchfield. Conn.,. smoked
nifty cigars In 10000. without taking a
drink. Herr knopf. an Australian. smoked
ten large cigars In 2:o0:oO. The Giftundel
Smoking Club held a special meeting to see
that the cigars were up to the standard.
More than twenty years ago Prof. Car
tier waltxed sixteen consecutive hours in
Tammany hall. Prof. Julian Carpenter. OF
Philadelphia, spun around for thirteen
hours without q rest. John p. Theis played
the piano without a moments iet-up for
27.ls:0O in Philadelphia FIVE years ago.
When Garfield. some years ago, at the
Point Of Pines ran mile, swan a mile.
walked mile and roller-skated a mile in
an hour he did rare thing. something
that stands alone. for where can one find
a roller skating rink and running track
handy to the seashore now?
There is q huge negro in a Georgia
swamp who Is credited with having killed
more alligators than any man on earth. He
walks up and hits them over the head with
an ax--for their skins.