Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — Betting Under Difficulties. [ARTICLE]

Betting Under Difficulties.

Sir Herbert Maxwell at a recent public dinner told a story illustrative of the instinctive propensity of British nature to have a little gamble on something. Three officers in the Transvaal were down with fever, and just before the doctor went his rounds in the morning each patient put a half crown in a basin, and the one whose temperature was highest took the pool. Chicago News.