The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-15
wAGERs BY ENGL1sHMEN.
On Chicken Races, Walking Contests
 \ and Billiard Game.

Two Covent Garden porters, for a
 wager, engaged to walk to Hampstead
 Heath Station and back again. One of these men had to walk on stilts un-
 burdened, while the other had to car
 ry a sack of potatoes. In this case the
 man with the stilts won.
 Then John Roberts once for a wager engaged to play billiards with an um- brella againsta good amateur who had a cue. Tn this ease Roberts lost.
 Two Bury sportsmen had a wager, as the result. Of which a Macclesfleld man walked iron Macclesfleld to Bux- ton backward insde of three and a half hours.
 Another very curious wager was in consequence of Which a gentleman is now travelling oier the world. This has to cycle 10000 niles in five years, This is not an extrardinary feat, as he expects to cover te whole distance in four.
 During the time heA has to come in contact with threes Kirgs, kill a wild, animal in each country,to write 100. articles, to take 1000 photographs, and to deliver 100 lectures, an to do simi- lar curious feats. A
 Very extraordinary was he wager in. connection with which Mss Nellie Wicks accomplished a greal feat at Wigan, Miss Wicks claims to be the champion lady shaver of th world, and the wager was that sh should shave twenty-four men wth two hands in the ordinary way, thee men with one hand and three men blind folded, all within the space offorty- five minutes. -.
 What she accomplished was tha the first ten were shaved ings10;4o. thk se- cond 10 in 10:10, and the last 10 tnG50 After this remarkable performance the lady barber has issued a challenge un- der which she is ready to shave against any lady shaver in the world for 21,O00, neither country nor color barred" she declares in her challenge
 Sir John Astley won some very re- markable wagers. When he was quartered at Windsor he organizet chicken races. In this case the en trance fee was one guinea. and each bird carried the colors of it's nominator Sir John had been cunning enough to choose a sturdy young cock. He had the satisfaction of seeing his faVorite reach its mother at the end of fifty yards, far ahead of all its sisters.
 An odd wager was made between a pair of Wakefield colliers. This was in order to see who could balance a cork longest on the tip Of his nose.
 A most unusual wager was that made by Mir. Pierre Lorillard and a very well known member of the House of Peers. MT. Lorillard wagered that in one year he would spend the sum or s4 100000 upon his own personal amusement and qualification alone. That is. he was barred from deliberate " wasting his money in senseless gifts, or from spending 1t in any man. Ter which would not afford him dis inct qualification, @+ , Many restrictions were enforced in 'rder that the expenditure of the money should be fairly managed and nat the test should be square one IS to the amount of money man can pend on himself.
 MT. Lorillard lost. He set to work With a will, and did his best to win, He vent in for every expensive conceiv- sole' but at the end of the twelve months he had still an unexpen1ed aIance of more than e50,0Oo. one curious wager by "oId o" in ne days before express trains were hough about was that he would con ey letter fifty miles with in the hour de won the wager. ''N"A
 lie enclosed an epistle in a cricket 'all which was then hurled from one another of four and twenty n,av- ITS. He had calculated beforehand that they stood at intervals of sixty yards