Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — Ingalls' Great Bet. [ARTICLE]

Ingalls' Great Bet.

Senator Ingalls ot Kansas was in town Friday, and distinguished himself principally by lying to the reporters. In answer to the queeton, ‘Are you Senator Ingalls?’ he would reply without a quiver of a muscle, ‘No, sirV Ingalls was a member of ‘53 of Williams College, four classes below Gen. Garfield’s, and a gentleman in the city, who was in the same class, recalls the following remarkable incident:

The late Senator Williams | and Mr. Ingalls were roommates and intimate friends. In the smoking-room of one of the society houses,several days before the commencement m which , rnduated, ngalls said to Williams laughingly: ‘l’ll bet you five dollars I into congress before you ‘Take the bet,’ responded Williams in the same spirit, and, am f d no end of good mitured raillery, the money was deposited with the secretary of the society. Some years after that same secretary was called upon to return the stakes. Williams

and Ingalls had both been elected to the senate and took their seats on the same day.— St Louis Sayings.