Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1883 — Odd Wages. [ARTICLE]

Odd Wages.

The winner of a corn-raising contest near Rome, Ga., raised thirty-seven bushels on a half acre. In a shaving match for 9200 a side in Chicago, the winner’s time was two min utes and fifty-six seconds. A Salina, Mo., woman won 920 on a wager that she could chop a cord of wood in less time than a man could. For a some of money two package wrappers at Davenport, lowa, entered into a contest. The winner wrapped 3,800 bunpies in a single day, using 4,000 yards of twine. A man in a Berlin beer | house wagered four geese that he could stand on one leg for two hours. He fell over in a fit at the end of fifteen minutes, and cut his hands and faoe on a beer glass. William Campbell, a young farmer of Mexico, Mo., won a wager of felOO, and received two and one fourth oents a bushel besides for his labor, at oornshucking bee. In eight days he threw over his shoulder 542 bushels of corn.