The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-08
ODD RECORDS FOR
THE PAST YEAR
SOME OF THE UNIQUE HAPPEN
INGS AND FREAK INCIDENTS
or LAST TWELVE
MONTHS.
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Jacksonville MetrOpolis)
The strenuous record smashers
made things hum during the year now
closed. The high-water mark was at
tanned in various feats, episodes and
events observed throughout the coun-
try, ranging from the grave to the gay
and from the ludicrous to the gro
tesque.
Chicago produced the prize william,
man who was accused in court by
his wife, sister and employer with
desertion, ingratitude theft lying, in
temperance, profanity and singing
"Bedelia" when the neighbors wanted
to sleep. This champion simply failed
to live up to his opportunities, or he
might have posed as the much-wanted
Pat Grove and the man who struck
Billy" Patterson.
A Pennsylvania farmer won a medal
from his neighbors by having his wife
arrested for cruelty because she in
sisted on working monograph over
time on the tormenting air "Hiawa-
tha." in spite of all protests.
In st. Louis a thirsty man drank
nine quarts of whisky in twen.y-four
hours and died. Even the prohibition
lists must admit that rum has some
value.
Champion Pie Eater.
The classic town of Evanston, the
seat of Northwestern University, de-
veloped the biggest pie-eater of the
year. Five thick, juicy pies la mode
-smothered in ice cream-devouTed
at a single sitting, was the new record
set by Ed 0'Laughlin in a contest
with Lawrence English, who lost by
half a pie.
At Muskegon Mich, on a wager,
w. Savage drank twenty-six pints of
Apolinaris water and smoked thirteen
cigars in five hours. He won his bet,
and declared himself ready for his
twenty-seventh bottle.
But in the drinking line Harry E.
Vale, of EnglewoCu. Chicago suburb,
seems to have taken the bun. HE
drank up our bakery" said Mrs Vale,
in her suit for divorce. 1T was a
pretty big drink, but he swallowed it
in short order" Checks to saloon
keepers. aggregating several thousand
dollars showed what that big drink
had cost
An ambitions Missourian wrote 40,
0SS words on a postal card a feat in
chirography almost as wonderful as
would. be a sane explanation as to
why he did it.
Up in St. Paul in the pensive au-
tumn days Louis Gladder. in competi-
ton with many women. won the blue
ribbon offered by the state lair for the
best piece Of embroidery Here's a
new field open to men over IS; lace
and embroidery bring good prices, ac-
cordimg to Dowie.
The Record Will Stand.
During a fire in a New York hotel
a woman dressed herself in less than
fifteen minutes. This record is likely
to stand for at least a century.
Percy T.. Bennett is man that New
Jersey Judges called the champion
long-distance pianist of the world
without waiting to hear from all the
young ladies who are practicing on
THE Maiden's Prayer" In a Newark
theatre he batteSed out Farewell, My
Lady Love" etc. for twenty-fOur
hours at q stretch, when compassion
ate friends interfered and dragged
him home, bodily, though he threat
ened another explosion.
One hundred and ten times in
seven years was the moving record of
the Whelan family, of New York, and
a moving" tale was furnished in Har-
lem court when Mrs. Whelan testified
against her husband for non-support,
and drew wierd wOrd-pictures Of his
habits. Mr.. Whela1 looked
as if still another move would have
cheeTed him up somewhat when she
told the Judge the only way she could
get money from her rowing spouse
was to take il out of his trousers
pockets while he was asleep.