Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — How They Got Even. [ARTICLE]

How They Got Even.

’ - A practical joke was played nearly thirty years ago at a cocking-main in Havana by some sailors belonging to an American man-of-war. The sailors had been betting and losing day after day at the cock-pit, which was the amusement that th«y most affected, until they were all left without a cent. In that plight the sailors were when the man-oi-war was ordered off to San Francisco. A number of months afterward the vessel returned to Havana, and the Jack Tars had fully matured a scheme for vengeance. Drawing all their pay, and borrowing all the money they could in addition, at the first shore-leave they started for the, cecic-pit, carrying with them their gold and a bag, about which they preserved a great deal of mystery. Bpme of the ship% officers surmising that something was in the wind, followed, but not even tdjhem was the sailors’ secret divulged. Scarcely had they reached the {fit when an excited Spaniard sprang into the little arena, where a battle had just ended. Under his left arm he carried a magnificent gamecock ; in his right hand he flourished a bag of doubloons, and he yelled forth a challenge on behalf of his bird against anything that wore feathers.

No other challenger could have been half so welcome to the . sailors, for during their former unhappy experience he had been itheir Sets noir, raking in their gold pieces almost as fast as they coujdbet them. His verbose and grandiloquent defiance was promptly’ accepted, the money was staked, and tiie Afner jeans shot>k their champion out of $e mysterious bqg. ' A nondescript creature he was. with a great solid body, roughly edverdu with chicken feathers and tar, its wings aud tail clipped , its head broad and adorned with a keen curved beak, with long, sharp talons at the ends of its toes, instead of gaffe upon its legs. Despite its strange half-disguise, the officers recognised it at once as ah American eagle. But the Spaniards knew nothing about it, and the one wno had made the match was furious, deeming himself insulted by the pitting of such a miserable-looking creature against his splendid fowl. The alcalde ordered, however, that the fight should take place according to the terms of the challenge!, and the senor tossed his bird info the plqll wah ready to fight, of course, for a game-cock of good blood would not hesitate to attack a bird as big as the fabled roc. bo, the first notice the American game-chicken, as the sailors had christened their bird, received of the presence of the enemy was a fierce attack. He looked calmly down upon the game-cock strutting threateningly before him. The sailors were not without anxiety lest the keen gaffs might settle their eagle before he got warmed up to his work, but fear was quickly dispelled. The game-cock dashed forward again. In less than a second the Spaniards witnessed an astounding sight The “American chicken” placidly stretched Out one great claw, seized his antagonist by the head; drew him up, and, applying the other claw to his body, tore his head off with a single pull. Then he proceeded to eat him. A storm of imprecations and shouts of astonishment rent the air, but the sailors were too well armed and too numerous for the Spaniards, and so they got their money and returned aboard ship, laden with more Sdd than they ever before had, and carry, g their champion in triumph.

Thb manufacture of fans is an impor tant branch of industry in Japan, and no fewer than 3,000,000 fans, valued at S9O, 000, were, according to Mr. Consul Annesley’a commercial report on Hiogo and Osaka, lately issued, exported from those ports in 1875. Osaka is the principal city for the manufacture of the “ogi” or folding fans, which are those almost exclusively exported, all descriptions of the bamboo kind being made there, the figures, writing, etc., being executed in Kivoto. The principle of division of labor as explained in an extract from the Hiogo Newt quoted by Consul- Annesley, is carried out a long way in this branch of industry.

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