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A STRANGE CONTEST.

Tiik United .States is pre-eminently the liiml of strange wafers. Men there will fiet upon almost anything., from a beetle race to the election of a President. Not long ago two gentlemen had a wager as to which of the two, by thumping on a grand piano, should place the instrument iiors de combat. One competitor, however, spoilt the business by getting so excited during the contest that he incontinently pulled out his revolver and discharging the contents of all the six barrels into the piano upon which he was operating. Another piano competition of an equally novel kind was lately decided in Minnesota. 'Ft was a. question of speedTwo pianist were to play through a long composition, one giving' the other I*2o bars start. When the second player chimed in the noise was, wo should imagine, excruciating, for the. man was, of course, 1120 bars behind. It mii.-t have been awful fcr the audience. Nevertheless, the pianist who allowed himself to start behind the other caught up his rival hand over hand, passed him in a passage of lightning like rapidity, and, after a most exciting contest, beat him by soveuten -vi-ond.'. " Thousands of dollars." we are told, " changed bauds over the result."— Oas'id's Saturday Journal.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2644, 22 June 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

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A STRANGE CONTEST. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2644, 22 June 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

A STRANGE CONTEST. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2644, 22 June 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

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