The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-22
PUT UP HUNDREDS OF PRIZES.
Lotteries and Contests Between Women
 Who Wanted to Secure . Man.

Who Wanted to Secure Man. l London Tit-Bits.
 Kansas City, U. s. A.. was lately the scene of a lottery whereof the first
 prize was an eligible young Virginlan named Arnett, who stood on the plat form during the proceedings On the | winning number being called out a
 Miss Knoche stepped forward amid the
 plaudits of the crowd. Do you want
 to be married here nowT" asked the chairman. Its for the lady to say.
 Whatever she says goes. I'm game,
 said the prize but the winner, while recognizing her marriage as assured preferred matters to take more Iels- urely course. .....
 The joint birthday of King Carlos of
 Portugal and his consort was celebrat- ed on Sept. 2s last at village near
 Brags in a novel way. handsome young farmer named Coelhe, for whom several local beauties had long signed
 in vain, determined to sacrifice his free dom by offering himself as a prize to 1 her who should be successful in bull lock race. @:..
 Seven handsome peasant girls ap- peared at the starting post, riding barebacked on bullocks with decorated horns and tails. A capital start was effected, but erc half the distance had l been traversed the favorite was thrown. and displayed her chagrin by seizing the tall of the second bullock | in an endeavor to impede rivals progress This resulted in an unpopu- | lar competitor coming in first, whereas the onlookers were so disgusted that they tucked the judge in pond.
 New Brunswick was the scene, four years since, of a bicycle race, over a course of two miles, between a couple of girls who were rivals in the anec- I nA tN la himself, with a parson by his side, took his stand at the winning post, and no sooner had the winner, Miss Nellie Don- nely. passed the goal than the cere- mony was performed. and the newly married couple left the ground amid
 the acclamations of the large concourse | that had witnessed the contest
 To run to a point some hundred yards distant, there to change dresses for others laid in readiness on the ground, and. to return to the starting point was the trial undertaken last year at Brus- sells by some half dozen women, to decide which should wed man who had offered himself as a prize to the | winner. On the word being given, one at once dropped to sthe rear. and logged on quite unconcernedly. for she was aware that the sleeves of the dresses laid out for her rivals had been sewn up The confusion consequent on this enabled her to win the race. and the prize, who, it Is more than likely, was well aware of the ruse.
 The keeper of a Havre restaurant, some eight years back. offered himself as a prize, to be run for in an obstacle
 race by young women Here. too, sus- picion pointed to the result having
 been previously arranged. for the last difficulty to be overcome consisted of wriggling between two bars so close together that none but the slimmest could pass. Six out of the seven com petitors were thus put out of the race, which was won by a wisp of a girl, who. negotiating the narrow space with little trouble. carried off Boniface mans intention.
 The first prize in a cookery compe-
 tition held at Vienna in the early
 eighties was a young man, the owner
 of q pork butchers establishment, in
 whose declared opinion good household
 management was an Indispensable ne
 cessity in married life. Some score or
 more spinsters and widows displayed
 their culinary skill. that of a profess
 sional cook being accounted worthiest
 of the prize, who, however. stultified
 the decision of the judges by eloplnS
 with the prettiest of the competitors
 Equally perhdious was the conduct of young Liverpudlian, who, some years
 back. offered his hand and fortune as
 first prize for a sack race, over fity
 yards. to be competed for by girls un-
 der 25 years of age. At the goal he stood ready to surrender himself to
 the winner, but when he recognized in
 the leader a gaunt woman of notorious
 temper his courage failed him and he
 fled. The baked woman threatened
 both law proceedings and personal
 chastisement, but was at length moli-
 fled by sufficient money to set her up in business.