Practical Joke At Saratoga

eigh, the New York correspondent of the ïoston Journal, ia at Saratoga, and gWei be following specuuen of the practical oking with which tho visitorg thepo muse themsolves : "We have some wide awake men liep,. nd tliey are áisposeá to some fun. A-i specimen a soldier had a horse that he proposed to seH off in a raffle. Quite willing to aid, the gentkman here took abareb in t!e bofse antil all were sold. A moni the niiniber was a Mr. Whiteof New York. It was proposed to mak Mr. White thir.k be had drawn the prizo tbougb he did not como within fi rifl shot of it. A plan was laid. Mr. White was eallcd cut of the dancing roonj and ns good tortune told bun. ion dollsrs worth of champagne wus cttfank at bi expensr and he was congratnlatcd oi SÍ3 good luok. The next day ho founf a bilí ia his box for 18, for halter blanket and attendanee, which ho payed witbi reluotancy, saying the old borse would eat himself up. In the meEmtiiras horao - one of the most forlorn anfrtVwVV ever seen - was hired at a eost of $-4 to represent the horse that was drawn. A rope halter about the sizo of a cable, and a bit of rasged car pet stood instend of the blanket aud halter, for which $18 had been paid. A photograph of the animal was taken and circulated among the lucky man's friends, and when hu went to view the prize, qui'e a crowd of New York merchants went as an escort. The animal was led oat, and the consternation, rage, indignation 'of the drawer, the roar aud shouts of his friends can't be written. The bill was presented and, paid. He tried to give the horse away and no one would take ; him and finalljp by a generous donatiao to the bostler, the animal was taken off his handsi That night Mr. White left for New York, ignorant of the hoax played upon hira, resolved that before he would paj ono dollar for a horse again he would sce. what sort of an animal he is going to, raw... The photograph has been sent to. Ha%pers.