4,000 Miles With A Wheelbarrow

In 1878 Lyman Potter of New York state performed the prodigious task of pushing a coniinon "paddy" wheelbarrow across the continent. He started from his home on Dane street, Albany, on the moming of April 10, 1878, and arrived in San Francisco on the afternoon of Oct. 5 of the same year, being aluiost exactly 178 days (five hours and three minutes over) in performing the wearisorne feat. Potter was a shoeniaker, and the trip was the result of a wager made by sonie friends who believed that such a trip wonld occupy at least 200 days. The wager was $1,000, but Potter made between three and five times that sum advertising for different parties along the route. The wheelbarrow was made specially for the use to which it was put and weighed but 75 nnnnds. The d;stance traveled by ter was exactly 4,085% miles. - St, Louis Republic. I must have knowu life othenvise in epochs long since fled, for iu rny veius some orieut blood is red, auil through my thonght are lotus blossoms blowii.-