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aaeorIlaelns by a Itncy Ifacer.rs (\VUO IS NOT THE “FAT lt;0\‘THIIU TOR.”)01*litThe first race mentioned in the publicofpress was the Human Race, which starredT,Drugexpeinow ]hole 1in the year one. between old human and 1 s Tbos wife; their offspring have joined in from vmUl l!(. time to time until the whole human family ial is now running on the great, race course of!)t tiltnew!. iehro-life, with Time for an Umpire. The rare10-ialvowhich began in the Garden of Eden, mightCjhave ended differently had it not been forT witSunt!one11 * i of the runners, which caused both to lose 1 the stakes, which were life. Moral—Don’t allow apple peddlers on a race course. Thele-n-o-geinhuman race, though run tor centuries, haswill 1litTnever yet been won. New candidates artntofentered each day, and old ones drop out,ofbut the judges have vet to decide who wins.J ^ • give#A different feature in this race from most a?f rJhaveto eoiTlidynoraces, is the fact that those who run the ; c?pieleast distance on (his course stand the bestit, i chance of winning the prize, which is future in*tics inlsismli-■ss, while the longest runners areter, fey bjoftimes farthest from the goal. Our ancestors though slow, compared with the fastsidevoting men and women of to-dav. almostforwapinvariably come out ahead. Don’t bet on /yneislo-the human race; it is very uncertain.The Foot Race was organized and camtinto notice in 1861, when the CongressmenAlesand civilians came away trom Bull Run. . ! llt; 1enntEverybody came out ahead in this contest ,Nowexcept those who came a head shorter, m.iv lt;1111 ! owing to collision with cannon balls and sa-• n sn-re-iii-chabres. One frigiitened individual ran untilcut*.he brought up in Libby Piisou, where allivlthe stakes he received were poor beef steaks.and where his time was spent in keeping ajournal and writing home for money. Tin()newfoot race, though always consisting of more j nr r than one foot, is never called a feet raceh(the feet losing their plurality and becomingsingle.* At fairs and fetes the foot race isIv footed and the winner whose feet have per- jatirntformed the feat is feted.The Horse Race is familiar to all sinceythe “Fat Contributor” treated ot it. Ilorstft*'* *Galreato.Racing and the horses are being rapidly run I*'1.11\l I S’into the ground.Another very important race is the Mill (ndiedsiRace—not the race which comes off at the GoiLotmills” held by bruisers, between the policeand ‘‘tigers,”—but the ancient Grist MilllvndRace, which runs against a water wheel.In*il-Don’LfuM in with this race; it will cost you vonr Tireath and money.PhiWam a iiisTlum there is Svlvanus Corn Cobb’s Racenylv•e-For Life, between some poor red man of theforest and some well read man of the town;this race can be seen in any dime novel andis very exciting.ges. .) .1MYburErle tttssThe race for Promotion, though much iniisddISOvogue two years ago, has now run out. Thestakes were shoulder straps.But the race which excites the sportingrVlI ‘dis?»lt;circle the most is the Black Race, which wasui*r-comimyiced at Oberlin, Ohio. Mr. BlackA1lt;J-M*:e-and White are the runners. . The prize is1the ballot box and White House, on oneside, and Miscegenation and the whippingpost on the other. The stake holders, artPhillips, Douglass, Beecher and others. Mr.heweli-lattole)!oBlack has now got the inside of the track,and with good backing may win; at anyPrate don’t bet on the white, unless Congressis taken with a paralytic shock.The South joined in the running for someiAUoltime, but by some unexplained process the Ii0Ncomplexions got so mixed up that which»gercould not be distinguished from which, andthe South was ruled out, lest she be lost in*ec,\r fthe deeper color of the Black. For full particulars of this race, read Greeley’s American Wool Grower.PwettlarParker Well. Tarr Farm* w a * formerly a
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Pithole City Daily Record
Pithole City, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Aug 07, 1866
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