Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1885 — Washington as a Long-Distance Thrower. [ARTICLE]

Washington as a Long-Distance Thrower.

It was on Union Square that a man whose histronic yawp is well know all over the land told the following chestnut to the boys. Lord Coleridare, when he visited this country, stood with William M. Evarts on the banks of the Potomac, opposite the City of Washington. “Do you know, Evarts, said his Lordship,” “I have heard George Washington was a man of great physical prowers. I was to 1 d that he once threw a silver dollar from this spot across the Potomac.” s “You must remetober, my Lord,” said Mr. Evarts, “that a dollar would go a great deal further in those days than it would now.” The gloom that the recital of this old story had thrown over the gang was wafted away, by our friend in the long ulster, who said: “I would suggest that Evarts might have said something else.” “What?” “He might have said; T never heard that he threw a silver dollar across the Potomac, but history tells us that he threw an English sovereign across the the Atl.ntia’ "—Texas Siftings. A bullet thrown at a girl in"a Lowell cartridge factory, to awaken her, lodged in her ear and caused her death.