The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-08
The Original LITTLE LIVER
ouesa wAeEes sY sNeLIsAMEN
on Chicken Races. Walking Contests
and ELllIsrd Came.


Heath STALLION and back again. One Of
these men had 20 walk on stilts un-
burdened. while the other had TO carry
sack Of potatoes. In this case the
man with the stills won.
Then John Roberts once, for a
wager engaged TO play billiards WIZ
an umbrella against good amsteu
who had a cue. In this case Robert'
lost.
Two Bury sportsmen had wager
as the result of which a Alaccelsheld
man walked from Maccelsaeld to Bux-
tor backward inside OF three and
bal: hours.
Another very curious wager was ooe
In consequence Of which gentleman
is now travelling over the world. This
gentleman has to cycle 10000 miles
in fve yeafs, This is not an extra
ordinary feat, as he expects 10 cover
the whole distance in four.
During the time he has to come in
contact with three Kings, kill a wlii
animal in each country, to write 1V0
articles, TO take ] 600 photographs, aud
to deliver l00 lectures, and to do SINH
lar curious feats.
Very extraordinary was the wager
In connection with which Miss Nellie
Wicks accomplished a great tcat Al
Wigan. Miss Wicks claims to be tbs
q ampion lady shaver Of the world
and the wager was that she shoul'
shave twenty men with two haEdi
, IN the ordinary way, three men viii
one hand and three men blindfolded
all within the space OF forty-av
: minutes.
What she accomplished was that IN
& first ten were shaved in 10:4O, th
Z second ten in 1910. and the last /
!. iu 9:5c. After this remarkable perlol
; nance the lady barber he's issued
! challenge under which she is ready
shave against any lady barber in tn
: world for $1,000, neither eountr
: nor color barred" she declares in nt
< challenge.
Sir John Ashley won some very r.
z mArkable wagers When he was quar-
!. cred at Windsor he organized chicke
{. races. In this case the entrance Il
= was one guinea, and each bird carrie
\ the colors of It's nominator. Sir Joh
= had beer cunning enough to choo
q sturdy young cock, He had the "a
q isfaction of seeing his favorte rea'
q its mother at the end OF fifty yard
FAR ahead Of all its sisters
y An odd wager was made between
x rair OF Wakefield colliers. This W
e in order to see who could balance
"a cork longest on the tip Of his nose.
X A most rnusnal wager was that ma
" by Mr. Pierre Lorillard and We
n wen known member Of the House
D Peers. Mr. Lorillard wagered that
VI one year he would spend the sum
% 10000 upon his own persof
y, amusement and gIatihcarion alol
W That Is, he Was barred FROM delibi
\. aiely wasting his money in sensei'
~ gifts, OF from spending 1t in any ma
d ne. which would not aeord Eim d
a. tiDct elatlacation.
l Many restrictions we're enforced
z. order that the expenditure OF
~ money should be fairly managed a
~ that the test should be a square q
3. as 10 the amount Of money man g
ID spend on himself
I SIR Lorilard lost. lie set 20 wC
la with a viii, and did his best to "
0I lie went IN for every expensive anu
1 ment conceivable, but az the end
~ the twelve months be had still an {
lDN expended balance OF more than Z
l|S COO
lI one curious wager made by "Old
lls IN the days before express trains "
" thought about was that he would g
lIa vey a letter nifty miles within the ho
5a He won the wager
l lie enclosed an epistle in a eric
- ball which was then hurled from (
"a 70 another Of four and twenty play'
He had circulated beforehand that
~ they stood at intervals Of sixty ya
Ks apart mo BAH would have 20 be thro
~ sl1ty-one and fraction times aro'
the complete circuit Of i,l4o yard
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